Richedit

Im trying to get some Win32 API code to work using the Richedit control. From what i have understood, to load text to the control you specify a callback function in an EDITSTREAM struct and then send the EM_STREAMIN message, but i cant get it too work.

I want to load a string to the control, can someone give an example .. thxs

I am new to Windows programming but, try researching the function:

SetDlgItemText

I think that might work. Like I said, I'm new so excuse me if I'm wrong.

--Garfield the Great

SetDlgItemText(...) or SetWindowText(...) are what you're looking for...

I always used to have the problem that when I tried using a riched it's crash, but I fixed it by calling

LoadLibrary("RichEd32.dll"); on WM_CREATE

> I always used to have the problem that when I tried using a riched it's crash, but I fixed it by calling

LoadLibrary("RichEd32.dll"); on WM_CREATE
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Why did this fix it?

--Garfield the Great

in order to add text to a richedit or simple edit you can use this :

void AddTextTo(HWND win,char *text)
{
SendMessage(win,EM_SETSEL,-1,-1);
SendMessage(win,EM_REPLACESEL,FALSE,(LPARAM)text);
}

void InsertTextTo(HWND win,char *text)
{
SendMessage(win,EM_REPLACESEL,FALSE,(LPARAM)text);
}

void InsertTextInpos(HWND win,char *text,int pos)
{
SendMessage(win,EM_SETSEL,pos,pos);
SendMessage(win,EM_REPLACESEL,FALSE,(LPARAM)text);
}

and use this in order to make the richedit available in your programme in the WinMain :

LoadLibrary("RICHED32.DLL");
LoadLibrary("RICHED20.DLL");
OleInitialize(NULL);
CoInitialize(NULL);

best of luck !

thxs people , i already have the riched32.dll being loading at app start, and SetDlgItemText() works but not in the way i wanted (i want to append text aswell) but tomkats solution seems about right... ill try them all cprogramming.com boards rule for problem solving... im off to try some new stuff out

hmmm for some reason i wasnt logged in for the above post... sorry...

(i think it has todo with the fact i came from hotmail.com)