TMemo Persistent Selection

[HatForCat]

Hi,

Is there any way to have a Memo1.SelText still highlighted when the focus moves away from it?

I am writing a spelling checker and it is working fine with selections etc, but as soon as I click on the Selection listbox for a bad word, the Memo's selected text loses the highlight. The cursor is still positioned in the memo at the start of the bad word, so replacement works fine.

A TDBGrid has "Always show Selection" in Options that keeps the highlight when the focus moves away. Is there some way I can have the memo do that?

Thanks

[fred]

Try setting HideSelection to unchecked/false in the property editor.

[HatForCat]

Try setting HideSelection to unchecked/false in the property editor.

Thanks, but should have mentioned I already have that un-checked. I have noticed that sometimes the memo-selection goes a light-gray, but no idea why it is only sometimes. Quirk of Lazarus and/or Ubuntu I guess. Gray would be OK if it always went gray.

[fred]

With my little test it works on windows, I don't have a linux version to test 
I see you use 1.6.2 perhaps 1.6.4 could work?
I have not cheked the release notes...

[HatForCat]

I see you use 1.6.2 perhaps 1.6.4 could work?

1.6.4 will not install. I tried it a few weeks back. Keeps throwing errors for paths and missing Dependencies.

Could not be bother messing with it so went back .1.6.2.

Thanks anyway.

[fred]

Not a real solution but could TRichMemo work?