OpenEuphoria

RE: RichEdit and findText

• Posted by Pete <pete_stoner at btconnect.com> Nov 16, 2004
• 533 views

Brian Broker wrote:
> 
> Pete wrote:
> > 
> > Derek Parnell wrote:
> > > 
> > > Pete wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  Its late so I hope someone can supply the answer to my stupid question 
> > > > while I sleep!!
> > > >   I have a RichEdit in which I'm doing a findText. The findText works 
> > > > fine when searching for a single character, but fails to find it if I am
> > > > searching for more than one character..
> > > > 
> > > > i.e in the RichEdit I have "7028"
> > > > 
> > > > This works fine:-
> > > >   fnd = findText ( RE, "7", {0,-1}, findDown)
> > > > so does this
> > > >   fnd = findText ( RE, "0", {0,-1}, findDown)
> > > > but..
> > > >   fnd = findText ( RE, "7028", {0,-1}, findDown)
> > > > returns 0
> > > >  Adding the findWholeWord flag also makes no difference..
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but I can't see what.. Help!
> > > 
> > > I think I know the problem. Find the 'findText()' function in
> > > the win32lib library and replace ...
> > > 
> > >     FT = struct_FINDTEXTEX( range[1], range[2], text, 0, 0 )
> > > 
> > > with ...
> > > 
> > >     FT = struct_FINDTEXTEX( range[1], range[2], text, 0, -1 )
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Derek Parnell
> > > Melbourne, Australia
> > > 
> > 
> >  Sorry, that didn't help, below is a cut down example (I'm using XP home
> >  in case it makes any difference)
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> Did you apply the RichEdit patch in your copy of Win32Lib?  This wasn't 
> fixed in 0.60.6 and isn't noted on the patches page.
> 
> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4655z">http://tinyurl.com/4655z</a>
> 
> I don't even know if this would help but thought it worth mentioning.
> 
> -- Brian

   Tried again after applying patch (I think it was already applied, but 
did it again..) still fails - worth a try tho.

 Pete