Thread: Adding to text in an edit

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    Adding to text in an edit

    I'm a bit rusty on my windows programming (not that I ever knew that much) and I'm trying to make a chat program. I want to be able to add to the text in my edit control without rewriting the whole thing, is there any way to do that?
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    Use EM_SETSEL and EM_REPLACESEL.

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