Description
Gets the starting position of the specified form field. The type of the form field may be FormFieldCheckBox, FormFieldComboBox, FormFieldText, and FormFieldDate.
The starting position is the character index (starting at 1) of the first character of the form field in the RichTextEdit control. If there are new line characters in the content, each new line character is counted as one character too. If the RichTextEdit control contains header and footer, the character indexes of the header, footer and main content are accumulated separately.
Applies to
Syntax
rtename.FormFieldGetStart(integer fieldID)
Return value
Integer.
Returns the starting position of the form field relative to the content in the RichTextEdit control. The starting position is the character index (starting at 1) of the first character of the form field in the RichTextEdit control. If there are new line characters in the content, each new line character is counted as one character too. If the RichTextEdit control contains header and footer, the character indexes of the header, footer and main content are accumulated separately.
Returns -1 if an error occurs. Returns -2 if the fieldID is non-existent, illegal, or not of the required type. If any argument's value is null, returns null.
Examples
This example gets the starting position of the specified form field in the current RichTextEdit control.
integer li_formid,li_rtn
li_formid = rte_1.FormTextFieldInsert("Test!")
li_rtn = rte_1.FormFieldGetStart(li_formid)
messagebox("",string(li_rtn))
