OpenEuphoria

Re: [Win32Lib] weird RichEdit problem

• Posted by "danielmoyer" <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Sep 06, 2004
• 498 views

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Parnell" <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Win32Lib] weird RichEdit problem


>
>
> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
>
> danielmoyer wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to develop an application alternately on a laptop & a desk
pc,
> > but a part of the app doesn't run correctly on the desktop, though it
runs
> > just fine on the laptop.
> >
> > The two systems are both running Eu 2.3 & Win32Lib 59.01 for the app,
and
> > the only difference I can see between them is that the desk pc has
Windows
> > 98 1st ed, & the laptop has Windows 98 2nd ed.
>
> Richedit 2.0 was released with Win98 1st Ed.
>
> Richedit 3.0 was unofficially released with 2nd Ed. It officially
> came with Windows ME.
>
> All you need to do is copy the riched20.dll from the laptop to
> the desktop machine. This will "install" RichEdit 3.0 on both
> machines. It is this version that supports more than 32K chars
> by default.

Aha!  thanks Derek!  I'll give it a try.
But just in case any user of the app also doesn't have Richedit 3.0 on their
system, is there some way to programmatically change the default?
(And the richedit on the desk pc doesn't neglect to *hold* or display the
longer text, just neglects to allow programmatic selection of text displayed
past the 32K char.)

Dan



>
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
>