Re: How to stop highlighting items in Cedit control

From:
"Brian Westcott" <bwestcott@shaw.ca>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:23:56 -0600
Message-ID:
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I did but the handler doesn't get called. it seems, if the control is in a
property page.

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com> wrote in message
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That comment is kind of confusing... Why not just add an handler for
ON_EN_UPDATE using the wizard? This might help you:

http://www.functionx.com/visualc/controls/editbox.htm

Tom

"Brian Westcott" <bwestcott@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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I have tried this, but since the control is in a CPropertyPage, VS tells
me:
// TODO: If this is a RICHEDIT control, the control will not
// send this notification unless you override the
CPropertyPage::OnInitDialog()
// function to send the EM_SETEVENTMASK message to the control
// with the ENM_UPDATE flag ORed into the lParam mask.
My next step was to insert the following code in the class dervived from
CPropertyPage:
BOOL CDeployFinish::OnInitDialog()
{
CPropertyPage::OnInitDialog();
CEdit *pEdit = (CEdit *)GetDlgItem(IDC_DEPLOYSTATUS);

HWND handle = pEdit->m_hWnd;
int eventMask = ::SendMessage(handle, EM_SETEVENTMASK, 0, ENM_UPDATE);
// TODO: Add extra initialization here

return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
              // EXCEPTION: OCX Property Pages should return FALSE
}

This method was entered and seemed to work. However the OnUpdate for the
Cedit control was not called so I could not call SetSel(-1,0);

I haven't been able to find any code that shows how it should be done so
I am at a loss as to what my problem is. Any suggestions??
Brian
"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com> wrote in message
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Call SetSel(-1,0) for the edit control to deselect the text. You can do
this in an update routine.

Tom

"Brian Westcott" <bwestcott@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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I am using a Cedit control within a propertypage to display a list of
status messages as the program executes a series of actions. Everything
works OK, except that all of the text in the Cedit control is
highlighted (selected?). Is there a way to insert data into the Cedit
control without having the text highlighted?

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