I have a series of edit controls which I only want to accept numbers. I looked at msdn's edit control messages but I only see messages where I cannot see the data being entered into the control, but just that the edit control has been / will be updated. I was hoping for a message with the destination edit control reference and the data to be input and that I could just return from the message handler if I do not want to accept certain input.
Any tips?
Edit controls have the ES_NUMBER style available which only allows numeric input. Beyond that, you would probably need to subclass the control.
...and you can do that with SetWindowLong().
Thanks, works good now!
The WM_COMMAND msg type 'EN_CHANGE' msg will be sent each character typed into an edit.Originally Posted by Gerread
EN_ is Edit Notification
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...But when you receive EN_CHANGE the data has already changed. The edit control doesn't ask you if you want to accept a character. If ES_NUMBER does not do what you want, you need to create a custom win proc for the edit control on top of the standard edit control proc.
Actually the EN_CHANGE is ent after the data has changed but prior to the edit being redraw. So the change is yet to appear on the users screen.
Keep the acceptable / current data in a buffer.
When you get an EN_CHANGE, process the difference between the acceptable data and the text in the EDIT (ie the new input).
If the new input (the difference) is acceptable, add it to the buffer.
If the new input is not acceptable, copy the buffer back to the edit (thus removing the new input).
You will get an EN_CHANGE for each character entered.
I do this all the time to allow float / currency input.
Last edited by novacain; 05-03-2007 at 08:58 PM.
"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
George Best
"If you are going through hell....keep going."
Winston Churchill
