You can also determine whether a rich edit control is capable of pasting a clipboard format. How to Use Rich Edit Clipboard OperationsĪn application can paste the contents of the clipboard into a rich edit control by using either the best available clipboard format or a specific clipboard format. An application can send messages to a rich edit control to replace the default word-break procedure, to retrieve word-break information, and to determine what line a given character falls on. The control uses this information when performing word-wrap operations and when processing CTRL+LEFT ARROW key and CTRL+RIGHT ARROW key combinations. How to Use Word and Line Break InformationĪ rich edit control calls a function called a word-break procedure to find breaks between words and to determine where it can break lines. You can retrieve either the selected text or a specified range of text. An application can get information about the current selection, set it, determine when it changes, and show or hide the selection highlight.Īn application can send messages to retrieve or find text in a rich edit control. The current selection is the range of selected characters, or the position of the insertion point if no characters are selected. The user can select text in a rich edit control by using the mouse or the keyboard. How to Interact with the Current Selection For characters, you can specify font name, size, color, and effects such as bold, italic, and protected. Paragraph formatting attributes include alignment, tabs, indents, numbering, and simple tables. For more information, see Rich Edit Control Styles.Īn application can send messages to a rich edit control in order to format characters and paragraphs and retrieve formatting information. You should specify the ES_MULTILINE window style if you want to allow more than one line of text in the control. Rich edit controls support most of the window styles used with edit controls as well as additional styles.
For more information, see Versions of Rich Edit. For all previous versions, specify RICHEDIT_CLASS. For Microsoft Rich Edit 4.1 (Msftedit.dll), specify MSFTEDIT_CLASS as the window class. To create a rich edit control, call the CreateWindowEx function, specifying the rich edit window class. This section contains topics that demonstrate how to create and use rich edit controls.
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