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SetIndex clarification

• Posted by Rangi <totorangi at hotmail.com> Apr 11, 2003
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I have been happily using the Win32Lib SetIndex command with RichEdit 
and EditText controls but am a bit worried about some behaviours. 
Perhaps someone can confirm that the following are normal.

1. With RichEdit, I use SetIndex(REctl, 0) to set the insertion point at 
the end of any text, prior to doing a SetFont and then an AppendText. 
This works fine but there is no mention of using '0' as a parameter like 
this in the Win32Lib documentation. Is this the expected behaviour ?

2.  With EditText, I use SetIndex(ETctl, {1, 0}) to select all text in 
the control. This also works fine but is contrary to the documentation 
which suggests using {0, -1} to select all characters. However, the 
latter selects nothing, and just sets the insertion point at the 
beginning of the ctl.  Is this an error in the documentation or am I 
getting something wrong here ?  

3.  Another worry with EditText controls is that the documentation makes 
no mention of it being usable with SetIndex.  Is that just an omission ? 
Or am I pushing my luck ?

Thanks
Rangi