Programatically delete text

[aeris170]

There was a Delete() function in TextEditor in the past that would let the programmer delete the piece of selected text programmatically. It was removed (made private) with this commit. How to achieve the same (or alike) functionality in the up-to-date version of ImGuiColorTextEdit?

[aeris170]

I'm able to "simulate" what a call to Delete() could do by:

const auto text = ImGui::GetClipboardText();
textEditor.Cut();
ImGui::SetClipboardText(text);

Though I'm not sure if this is a good way to do it.

[santaclose]

just curious, what is the use case for this? doesn't make a lot of sense in my mind 🤔

[aeris170]

One use case is implementing a menubar which let's you delete text with only a mouse: