1. Win32 editing of MLE
- Posted by Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET>
Nov 02, 1999
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Last edited Nov 03, 1999
I want to allow selection with the mouse of a portion of text in a MLE for
copy/cut/paste operations. Can anyone tell me, programatically, how I would
do that? The program is including Win32lib.ew. I know how to program the
copy/cut and paste. It is how to know what portion of the MLE has been
selected about which I am clueless.
Thanks,
Judith
2. Re: Win32 editing of MLE
- Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM>
Nov 02, 1999
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Last edited Nov 03, 1999
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:54:54 -0500, Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET> wrote:
>I want to allow selection with the mouse of a portion of text in a MLE for
>copy/cut/paste operations. Can anyone tell me, programatically, how I
would
>do that? The program is including Win32lib.ew. I know how to program the
>copy/cut and paste. It is how to know what portion of the MLE has been
>selected about which I am clueless.
>
>Thanks,
>Judith
Those edit properties are inherent to an MLE text box. Windows does that
work for you. 8^)
3. Re: Win32 editing of MLE
Hello,
> >I want to allow selection with the mouse of a portion of >text in a MLE
>for copy/cut/paste operations. Can anyone >tell me, programatically, how I
>would do that? The >program is including Win32lib.ew. I know how to program
> >the copy/cut and paste. It is how to know what portion of >the MLE has
>been selected about which I am clueless.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Judith
>
>Those edit properties are inherent to an MLE text box. Windows does that
>work for you. 8^)
I think he/she wants to know what property tells which text
is currently selected (like SelStart and SelLength).
Unfortunately I don't know if this is how it is done in
Win32lib or not.
later,
Lewis Townsend
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4. Re: Win32 editing of MLE
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Nov 02, 1999
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Last edited Nov 03, 1999
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:54:54 -0500, Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET> wrote:
>
> >I want to allow selection with the mouse of a portion of text in a MLE for
> >copy/cut/paste operations. Can anyone tell me, programatically, how I
> would
> >do that? The program is including Win32lib.ew. I know how to program the
> >copy/cut and paste. It is how to know what portion of the MLE has been
> >selected about which I am clueless.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Judith
>
> Those edit properties are inherent to an MLE text box. Windows does that
> work for you. 8^)
A related question: how can I programatically select the text
in an EditText control and highlight it ?
What I am trying for is to fill the edit boxes with default wording which will
be highlighted when you tab into that control, and either replaced with
whatever new keystrokes are typed, or left as-is if the control is tabbed
out of.
Currently, the default data is there, with the cursor at the end of the
default string. You have to backspace the old data out, or highlight with
the mouse before typing new data. Much too slow.
Thanks,
Irv
5. Re: Win32 editing of MLE
- Posted by "Brian K. Broker" <bkb at CNW.COM>
Nov 02, 1999
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Last edited Nov 03, 1999
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:54:54 -0500, Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I want to allow selection with the mouse of a portion of text in a MLE for
> > >copy/cut/paste operations. Can anyone tell me, programatically, how I
> > would
> > >do that? The program is including Win32lib.ew. I know how to program the
> > >copy/cut and paste. It is how to know what portion of the MLE has been
> > >selected about which I am clueless.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Judith
> >
> > Those edit properties are inherent to an MLE text box. Windows does that
> > work for you. 8^)
>
> A related question: how can I programatically select the text
> in an EditText control and highlight it ?
> What I am trying for is to fill the edit boxes with default wording which will
> be highlighted when you tab into that control, and either replaced with
> whatever new keystrokes are typed, or left as-is if the control is tabbed
> out of.
>
> Currently, the default data is there, with the cursor at the end of the
> default string. You have to backspace the old data out, or highlight with
> the mouse before typing new data. Much too slow.
>
> Thanks,
> Irv
I haven't played with this aspect of Windows programming so I can't give
you any examples but you can find Edit Control Messages at
You'll have to use 'SendMessage' (defined in Win32Lib) and send an
EM_SETSEL message to your MLEtext. I might play with this and provide
more insight if you have troubles.
Good luck,
Brian
6. Re: Win32 editing of MLE
Thanks to everyone. EM_GETSEL worked just fine.
