Navigating
Cursors
The text model cursor allows for free navigation over the model by character, words, sentences, or paragraphs. There can be several model cursors at the same time. Model cursor creation, movement and usage is discussed in the section Word Processing . The text model cursors are com.sun.star.text.TextCursor services that are based on the interface com.sun.star.text.XTextCursor, which is based on com.sun.star.text.XTextRange.
The text view cursor enables the user to travel over the document in the view by character, line, screen page and document page. There is only one text view cursor. Certain information about the current layout, such as the number of lines and page number must be retrieved at the view cursor. The chapter Text Document Controller below discusses the view cursor in detail. The text view cursor is a com.sun.star.text.TextViewCursor service that includes com.sun.star.text.TextLayoutCursor.
Locating Text Contents
The text document model has suppliers that yield all text contents in a document as collections. To find a particular text content, such as bookmarks or text fields, use the appropriate supplier interface. The following supplier interfaces are available at the model:
