sending something to a rich edit control without keyboard

Okay.. here's my question

how can i just send something out to get displayed on the rich edit control??

as of right now.. i can type into it..but what if i want a line of text to appear?


like i want to put a string together off some other event.. and just have it appear on the rich text control..

how would i go about doing that?

thanks

The basic answer is "send the control a window message". Unfortunately, I'm not a Win32 guru, so I can't just whip up the code out of thin air, and my copy of Petzold is at the house, but there's a Win32 API call you'll use:

Code:

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lResult = SendMessage(      // returns LRESULT in lResult
(HWND) hWndControl,      // handle to destination control
(UINT) EM_SETTEXTEX,      // message ID
(WPARAM) wParam,      // = (WPARAM) () wParam;
 (LPARAM) lParam      // = (LPARAM) () lParam; );

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Where hWnd is the window handle of the control, wParam points to a SETTEXTEX structure:

Code:

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typedef struct _settextex {
DWORD flags;
UINT codepage;}
 SETTEXTEX;

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and lParam is a pointer to a typical C-style string.