public
class
implements AutoCloseable
PDFViewCtrl.Selection
extends Objectimplements AutoCloseable
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| ↳ | com.pdftron.pdf.PDFViewCtrl.Selection |
Class Overview
A class representing the current text selection.
Summary
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| void |
close()
Frees the native memory of the object.
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| String |
getAsHtml()
Get the selected text as html.
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| String |
getAsUnicode()
Get the selected text as unicode string
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| int |
getPageNum()
Get the page number containing the selected text
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| double[] |
getQuads()
Returns the list of tight bounding quads in the current text
selection.
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From class
java.lang.Object
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From interface
java.lang.AutoCloseable
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Public Methods
public void close ()
Frees the native memory of the object. This can be explicity called to control the deallocation of native memory and avoid situations where the garbage collector does not free the object in a timely manner.
Throws
| PDFNetException |
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public String getAsHtml ()
Get the selected text as html.
Note: this function can be used to implement clipboard copy and paste that preserves text formatting.
Returns
- the current text selection in HTML format. HTML text will contain styling information such as text color, font size, style etc.
public String getAsUnicode ()
Get the selected text as unicode string
Returns
- the current text selection represented as an Unicode string.
public int getPageNum ()
Get the page number containing the selected text
Returns
- the page number containing the selected text.
public double[] getQuads ()
Returns the list of tight bounding quads in the current text selection.
Returns
- the list of bounding boxes