Flutter Cursor Position on Text Field

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I want to append text after the cursor position. For example: when the user moved the cursor of the text field middle. I want to get the cursor location on the text and I'll add text after the cursor location.

I tried with Text Edit Controller but I can't reach the cursor location with this. How can detect the cursor location on the text field?

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1 Answers

I fixed my problem with this;

// Get cursor current position
                    var cursorPos =
                        _textEditController.selection.base.offset;

                    // Right text of cursor position
                    String suffixText =
                        _textEditController.text.substring(cursorPos);

                    // Add new text on cursor position
                    String specialChars = ' text_1 ';
                    int length = specialChars.length;
                    
                    // Get the left text of cursor
                    String prefixText =
                        _textEditController.text.substring(0, cursorPos);

                    _textEditController.text =
                        prefixText + specialChars + suffixText;
                    
                    // Cursor move to end of added text
                    _textEditController.selection = TextSelection(
                      baseOffset: cursorPos + length,
                      extentOffset: cursorPos + length,
                    );
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