Re: CEdit problem

From:
"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:06:43 -0700
Message-ID:
<eTZOfCezGHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
You may want to try making the CFont a member of your class roather than
having it in a function. The font won't work if it goes out of scope.

Tom

"Arpit" <arpitpmehta@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157090861.349694.243440@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

To get rid of bold font, you should change the font to whatever you
want(use
SetFont).


QUESTION
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i do not get any effect of setfont. here is my code for that:-

***********************************************************************************************
//my rect area of editbox
CRect
rectEdit(m_stShape[nIEdited][nJEdited].pointTopLeft.x-m_nWidthOffset+1,m_stShape[nIEdited][nJEdited].pointTopLeft.y-m_nHeightOffset+1,m_stShape[nIEdited][nJEdited].pointBottomRight.x-m_nWidthOffset-1,m_stShape[nIEdited][nJEdited].pointBottomRight.y-m_nHeightOffset-1);

m_editCell.Create(ES_LEFT | WS_VISIBLE |
ES_AUTOVSCROLL,rectEdit,this,1);
m_editCell.SetLimitText(50); // limit the text that can be entered
m_editCell.SetFocus(); // set the focus in edit box

CFont fontEdit; // font while typing
fontEdit.CreateFont(17,0,0,0,FW_REGULAR,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,DEFAULT_CHARSET,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH
| FF_SWISS,"Calibri");

m_editCell.SetFont(&fontEdit);
************************************************************************************************
Is it that i have to use some another flag instead of FW_REGULAR for
not getting BOLD characters

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For sizing the control, you can use SetWindowPos.


QUESTION
----------------
Yes, but my problem i dont seem to be finding how can i come to know
that text has reached the limit of editbox size.

Thanks for replying..

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