Question About Edit Boxes

When I initialize my edit box, I want to have vertical and horizontal scroll bars. The code I have now only makes vertical scrollbars. Here is my code, how do I make a horizontal scrollbar with my edit box?

Code:

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edit_box = CreateWindow("EDIT",NULL,WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE |
ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_LEFT | ES_MULTILINE |
ES_NOHIDESEL | WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL | WS_BORDER |
ES_WANTRETURN, 0, 0, rect.right, rect.bottom, hWnd, (HMENU)EDIT_BOX,
((LPCREATESTRUCT)lParam)->hInstance, NULL);

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Does the scroll bar appear if you type in a really long line where it would be necessary?

no, it does not
i've attatched a picture of my program, and how it gives me a vertical scrollbar and not a horizontal one.

Are you sure that they are not there? If there is no need for a scroll windows will usually gray it out like displayed below. Additionally if you type some text and resize the window usually the scroll will become enabled (also displayed below). In case you need additional help here is a little sample.

I found the problem. I didn't make my window large enough to view the bottom scrollbar. I shouldn't have made my edit box have a size either. Thank you.

How do you make it so that your edit box resizes along with your window?

when the window is resized, a WM_SIZE msg is posted.

I get that, I'm just wondering if there is a way to make my edit box resize when a user resizes the window. The only way I can think of is to delete the edit box and save the text as a buffer and then get the current rect of the screen and create it again. Is there an easier way?

What exactly do you mean, like getting smaller when the window gets smaller? Like autowrapping text so you don't need a scrollbar?

If you want to autowrap then this:

Code:

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hwndEdit = CreateWindow (TEXT ("edit"), NULL,
                        WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL | //<---------------both H and V scrolls
                                  WS_BORDER | ES_LEFT | ES_MULTILINE |
                                                                  ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_AUTOVSCROLL,//<-------------------Auto scrolling
                        0, 0, 0, 0, hwnd, (HMENU) ID_EDIT,
                        ((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam) -> hInstance, NULL) ;

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Should be this:

Code:

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hwndEdit = CreateWindow (TEXT ("edit"), NULL,
                        WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE |  WS_VSCROLL | //<---------------Just V scroll
                                  WS_BORDER | ES_LEFT | ES_MULTILINE 
                                                                | ES_AUTOVSCROLL,//<-------------------Auto scrolling(vertical only)
                        0, 0, 0, 0, hwnd, (HMENU) ID_EDIT,
                        ((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam) -> hInstance, NULL) ;

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If you mean simply autoresizing the example prog I gave you did that, its contained in the WM_SIZE message like so:

Code:

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MoveWindow (hwndEdit, 0, 0, LOWORD (lParam), HIWORD (lParam), TRUE) ; //Place edit control in top left of window
//resizes to size of window

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So if you know a specific size you want to remake your window simply change these parameters:
LOWORD(lParam) - width
HIWORD(lParam) - height

Happy coding!

That worked thank you. I have another question. I set my program so that when you click on a text file it opens my program. The problem is when it opens my program nothing appears. How do I make it so when I open my program I check to see if I clicked on a file to open it, and then display the text of that file?

Check the third parameter passed to the WinMain() function.

how would i check wParam for a text file? can you show me an example please? thanks.

I have another question. When I load a file using the text program I made, nothing happens. But when I resize my window suddenly it shows up. How can I make the program resize itself, or just make the program go to WM_SIZE.

Third parameter to WinMain which is a LPSTR which represents the command line windows used to call your program. In the event it was for opening a file like you are talking about the command line is the full path and filename of the file to open.

Happy Coding!

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Why don't you post the relevant code so we can all see what you are doing.

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Perhaps get the HWND to your edit control and call UpdateWindow(hEdit)? this might fix your problem of the text not showing up after loading a file.

Thanks. Both worked. As soon as I finish this text program I'll post it here because you guys practically wrote the whole thing. I'm sure I'll have some more questions, so thanks again.