RICH EDIT BOXES

[paul51]

Can someone tell me where I can find info on how to use rich edit boxes. I haven't had any luck with them.
Paul

 

[MSamoila]

There are several versions of Rich Edit Controls.
You can find documantation in MSDN Help on path:
/PlatformSDK/User Interface Services/Windows User Interface/Rich Edit Controls

In order to use them you must load the appropiate library:

HMODULE hRich = LoadLibrary(_T("RichEd32.dll"));


....

FreeLibrary(hRich);

After loading library you may create a rich edit control form resurces or using

CreateWindowEx

function (similar with edit box). The difference is the name of the class :
you should use the constant

RICHEDIT_CLASS

.

You handle the rich edit control by senting windows messages. E.g.: set the paragraph formatting:

PARAFORMAT pf;
.. fill the structure
SendMessage(hWndRich, EM_SETPARAFORMAT, 0, (LPARAM)&pf);

Marius Samoila
Brainbench MVP for Visual C++

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[drizet]

Is the load routine called from the init routine? if not, in which function would I place the load routine? This is my first experience with Visual C++. I'm using ver. 6.0. I'm trying to convert a unix app from C, Motif and Fortran to a Visual C++ app.

Any help would be greatly aprreciated.

Scott Urban
Sr. Software Engineer
Lockheed Martuin

email: urban@ast.lmco.com