Re: Win32 editing of MLE
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
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