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Re: Still having Win32lib problem

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ulture.gouv.fr> Jul 22, 2007
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DB James wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Didn't get any answer to this before, but I still need it.  I have been
> unable to get text back out of a RichEdit control.  I tried poking around
> in win32lib.ew and w32dll.ew, but no luck so far.
> 
> I made a little test program in Judith's IDE:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> sequence line,text
> text={}
> line=" This is some text to test RichEdit Control\r\n"
> for i=1 to 10 do text&=line end for
> setText(RichEdit2,text) --works fine
> text={}
> text=getRichText(RichEdit2,-1) -- FAIL text={32 }
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> The content of "text" is {32 } (first char).
> 
> I am surprised no one else has reported this problem, if it isn't somehow
> just on my machine. Has anyone had success getting text from a RichEdit?
> 
> --Quark

This problem has been there for a long time already: precisely, since Microsoft
started to ship RichEdit controls v3.0 and higher, because they  no longer store
text in UTF-8, but UTF-16 instead. You probably noticed that demos using RichEdit
controls weren't fully working.

The next version of win32lib will solve this; the fix was not trivial.

CChris