Get the word highlighted by double-click in TMemo (Linux)

[dkjMusic]

I want to double-click a word in a TMemo, save the word in a string, then add the string to a TSynAnySyn's  keywords to have the word highlighted in an adjacent TSynEdit...kind of a double-click Find...

I think I can handle the stuff after finding the highlighted word in TMemo.

I found an example in Delphi, but it uses the mouse-move event with Windows procedures.

[Tom83]

The highlighted word of a Memo is in TMemo.SelText property.

[Martin_fr]

SynEdit has a special highlight mode for this:
      CurEdit.SetHighlightSearch('TheWord', []);
2nd argument, is if you want to match full words only, or use regex
      CurEdit.SetHighlightSearch('TheWord', [ssoWholeWord]);

see SynEdit.HighlightAllColor  for setting the colors of the highlight

[dkjMusic]

The highlighted word of a Memo is in TMemo.SelText property.

Fantastic! It worked like a charm. Thanks very much.

[dkjMusic]

SynEdit has a special highlight mode for this:
      CurEdit.SetHighlightSearch('TheWord', []);
2nd argument, is if you want to match full words only, or use regex
      CurEdit.SetHighlightSearch('TheWord', [ssoWholeWord]);

see SynEdit.HighlightAllColor  for setting the colors of the highlight

How do I use this? I tried

SynEdit1.CurEdit.SetHighlightSearch(Memo2.SelText, [ssoWholeWord]);

but got compiler errors: unit1.pas(44,14) Error: identifier idents no member "CurEdit"
and unit1.pas(44,69) Error: Identifier not found "ssoWholeWord"

Never mind. I used
SynEdit1.SetHighlightSearch(Memo2.SelText, []);
and everything worked as desired.

[Martin_fr]

Sorry copy and paste:
CurEdit = SynEdit

SynEdit1.SetHighlightSearch(Memo2.SelText, [ssoWholeWord]);

It's always only one word (and all occurences of that word) => once you set the next word, the previous word is lost.

IIRC it also has a different priority to SynAnySyn compared to highlighing the selected block (blue selection highlight)

SetHighlightSearch goes over the blue-selection, while SynAnySyn goes under the selection.