Android Text Selection Terminology

Question

How are the two "trapezoids" that appear during text selection (in the emulator) called?

Where can I find more information about how to control them programmatically?

For further clarity, I am attaching a snapshot where you can see the left & right "text-selection trapezoids":

Answer 1

We just call them cursor controllers, or handles.

Answer 2

It would appear based on the name of the images used to display these handles that they're called Text Select Handles, of which there's a

• Left Text Select Handle;
• Right Text Select Handle; and a
• Middle Text Select Handle (which is just the Left and Right images side-by-side)

The underlying code that manages these is in the three classes that derive from HandleView in android.widget.Editor:

• InsertionHandleView
• SelectionStartHandleView
• SelectionEndHandleView

Answer 3

to be precise ..

In android terminology it is "SelectionModifierCursorController"

Answer 4

This is a shot in the dark--but maybe they're called carets in Webkit?