DTEDITORDESELECT(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, meet DtEditorDeselect — a library call that deselects the current selection in a DtEditor widget. it’s giving “un-highlight era” ✨💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include &<Dt/Editor.h>
Boolean DtEditorDeselect(
Widget widget);

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the DtEditorDeselect function deselects any currently selected text in a DtEditor widget. no cap, that’s the whole vibe: selection? gone. 🫶

the entire contents of a DtEditor widget may be selected with DtEditorSelectAll(3).

the widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID. yes bestie, it needs the widget ID, okay? 💅

for a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated resources, see DtEditor(3).

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🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

upon successful completion, DtEditorDeselect returns True 😌✨ otherwise — if the primary selection is NULL, or if the widget does not own the primary selection — it returns False. that’s the whole rule, no extra lore. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5)
• DtEditor(3)
• DtEditorClearSelection(3)
• DtEditorCopyToClipboard(3)
• DtEditorCutToClipboard(3)
• DtEditorDeleteSelection(3)
• DtEditorSelectAll(3)

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that’s the tea from the DtEditorDeselect(library call) page: library-call manual, and the original footer didn’t give us a date, so no invented date bestie — periodt. mwah 💋💖