1. RE: Adding text to a richedit control (more info)
Brian Broker wrote:
> Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to add text onto the end of a richedit control?
> > I'm going to have a richedit with a lot of formatted stuff in it then I
> > want to add a small piece of text to the end, I'd really rather not
> > retrieve all the text, add the new stuff on the end, put it back into
> > the control then format it all as this will be really slow :) It's for
> > a chat log...
> >
> > Also, anyone know what message you need to send to a richedit to make
> > it scroll to the bottom, and also how to find out where it is
> > currently scrolled to?
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
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> > http://www.rat-software.com/
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> >
>
> Haven't played with rich edit controls lately but you can get the
> current scroll position by sending an EM_GETSCROLLPOS message
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winui/richedit_8aib.htm)
> You might use EM_SETSCROLLPOS to scroll to the bottom (after you figure
> out where the bottom is).
>
> I'd just go to the URL above and click on "show toc" to look through the
>
> different messages and mess around until I figured it out.
>
> Sorry I don't have all of your answers but you've got a resource in case
>
> nobody else knows off hand...
>
> -- Brian
PatRat,
Further research shows that EM_GETTEXTLENGTHEX and EM_SETTEXTEX could
come in handy. Also, if it's a chat thing, then EM_AUTOURLDETECT might
come in handy...
-- Brian
