cursor location

**ElastoManiac** · 12-23-2005

I need to get the cursor location inside my RichEdit, There is no such thing as EM_GETCURSOR, or anything...
All i can get is the scroll position of my vscrollbar...

**r1ck0r** · 12-23-2005

Originally Posted by MSDN

EM_GETSEL
The EM_GETSEL message retrieves the starting and ending character positions of the current selection in an edit control. You can send this message to either an edit control or a rich edit control.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../em_getsel.asp

-r1ck0r

**ElastoManiac** · 12-23-2005

I don't want the selection, i just want the current cursor location. Or can i get that from selection???

**r1ck0r** · 12-23-2005

If no text is selected, both the starting character position and the ending character position will be equal, this value will be the cursor position.

**ElastoManiac** · 12-24-2005

thanks.

**ElastoManiac** · 12-24-2005

I need to convert that number to int, do you have any idea how to do that?
Heres what i tryed:

Code:

int		where = 0;
LPDWORD		where1 = 0;

SendMessage(children.eBook, EM_GETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)where1);
where = (int)where1; // this doesn't work

**anonytmouse** · 12-24-2005

Code:

DWORD start;
DWORD end;
SendMessage(hwnd, EM_GETSEL, (WPARAM) &start, (LPARAM) &end);

where = end;

**Niara** · 12-24-2005

althought I have no idea (remember your excelent comment?) , you should get the client rect to get the entire client area, the get the edit rect, and finaly get the cursor position, with some simple calculations you will be able to relate those 10 values to get the cursor position inside the edit

niara

**r1ck0r** · 12-24-2005

^That's a whole lot of fuss considering the EM_GETSEL message does the exact thing he wants, why reinvent the wheel?

**ElastoManiac** · 12-24-2005

Originally Posted by r1ck0r

^That's a whole lot of fuss considering the EM_GETSEL message does the exact thing he wants, why reinvent the wheel?

agree.
So heres what i want to do...
I want to write down the current location of cursor on a status control,
therefor i need the string.
But i just don't know how todo this...

Code:

char text[50];
int location = 0;
DWORD where = 0;
SendMessage(xxx, EM_GETSEL ,............
location = where; // need to figure this out somehow
sprintf(text,"Location %i", location);

If you got any other suggestion on how to do this i will highly appreciate it.

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