Question: What is the strategy to implement Highlight All for found matches for modifiable text? about richtextfx HOT 5 CLOSED

I was thinking about the following solution:

0. For highlighting I do codeArea.setStyleClass(from, to, "highlighted");
1. User makes changes in text
2. I get event on textProperty. Using old value, new value and caret position I get information about text change.
3. On both sides of the changed piece of text I do:

var styles = stycodeArea.getStyleAtPosition(position);
if styles contains my "highlighted" style class then 
var range = codeArea.getStyleRangeAtPosition(position)
update styles in this range ???

Is this a correct way?

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Yes that sounds about right .....

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@Jugen Thank you very much for your answer. Do I understand it correctly that there is no low level API for getting text changes in RichTextFX? For example, I would like to get events - text added/removed/replaced with text and positions.

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You can use either plainTextChanges or richChanges which includes style changes.

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@Jugen Yes, this is what I was looking for. Thank you very much for your help.

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