Use this tag for questions related to the CEdit class (Windows edit control).
An edit control is a rectangular child window in which the user can enter text.
More in the MSDN documentation.
Questions tagged [cedit]
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WTL. Class derived from CEdit. Parent window does not react for EN_CHANGE
I need to handle EN_CHANGED.
COMMAND_HANDLER_EX(0, EN_CHANGE, OnEdit)
It works when I am using CEdit.
But it does not work when I am using CMyEdit.
class CMyEdit : public CWindowImpl
What do I have to do?
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How to show caret in a disabled MFC CEdit control?
If an edit control is disabled, the caret disappears. that case, if the edit is displaying a long text, then it is not possible to see the rest of the words.With the caret i, we can do that.
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MFC: Why is it ridiculously hard to customize the scrollbar control | Alternatives to startting from scratch
For MFC controls that have a scrollbar such as CListCtrl and CEdit, why is so ridiculously hard to customize the looks of the scrollbar?
In XP MFC, we can get WM_NCPAINT and perhaps somehow change drawing of the scrollbar, but as I have noticed in…
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validating CEdit without subclassing
Is there any way to validate the contents of a CEdit box without subclassing?
I want to check for invalid filename characters in a CEdit box and not allow the user to input it at all (keypress should not be recorded, if pasted in the box, the…
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Detecting CTRL inside CEdit::OnChar and testing nChar value?
I derived my own control from CEdit and it behaves as I intend:
#define IsSHIFTpressed() ( (GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & (1 << (sizeof(SHORT)*8-1))) != 0 )
void CEditEx::OnChar(UINT nChar, UINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags)
{
if (IsCTRLpressed() && nChar…
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CEdit Text Retrieval in mfc
I am using CEdit with the property of Multiline.My objective is to retrieve the individual line and place it in my CStringArray.
While retrieving the line using GetLine , I have to know the string length of that line.
How to get this?
I tried the…
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Visual C++ CEdit Control - Why is the Insertion Point changed by SetWindowText()
The following snippet is from the OnChange() handler of a multiline CEdit control, which has "WantReturn" set.
void DLG::OnChangeEditPrepareTape()
{
CString ss;
std::vector aTape;
m_prepareTape.GetWindowText(ss);
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DragQueryFiles can't obtain the file path
My code:
void CWGAccountFilterDlg::OnDropFiles(HDROP hDropInfo)
{
// TODO: 在此添加消息处理程序代码和/或调用默认值
CDialogEx::OnDropFiles(hDropInfo);
wchar_t lpFilePath[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
int nCount = DragQueryFile(hDropInfo, -1, NULL, 0);
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Getting the text out of a multi-line CEdit control?
There has to be a better way to get the text from a multi-line CEdit control rather than using GetLineCount() then looping through all the lines and a appending the GetLine(i) to the end of an accumulator string. Is there a better way than this?
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MFC CEdit control autocomplete
I want to implement the autocomplete capability for the MFC's CEdit control but I couldn't find anything on the web. I looked at the SHAutoComplete, but it seem like it's only useful for URL and file/folder path.
I was thinking of manually…
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DDV_MinMaxUInt : Custom Validation Message
I am using MFC, to develop a Mobile App. For one of the CEdit controls, in the dialog box, I declared a variable as long int as follows.
DDV_MinMaxUInt(pDX, m_txtCurrentValue, 1, 2000);
So whenever, I try to close the dialog box with invalid values…
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Adding edit box to ATL dialog using ATL CEdit in CAxDialogImpl
I have project on ATL(C++) VS2010. I have created a dialog class. With two buttons and want to add something like a textbox. I have read that is responsible for this component CEdit.
CEdit* pEdit = (CEdit*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1);
1. But nowhere…
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MFC CEdit character delete not working
I stumbled upon a strange problem today on one of my client's Windows XP SP 3: deleting with BACKSPACE or DELETE buttons a text from a CEdit won't work. To be more accurate, i place the cursor at the end of the text, and hitting the BACKSPACE button…
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What could be going wrong pasting a largish string into a textbox control (MFC)
I have large text of size 10965 characters. The exact text…
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SetCueBanner not working on multi-line edit control
I have created an edit control with multi-line style. I used SetCueBanner for displaying some text as tip. It displays the text only when I remove the ES_MULTILINE style, but with this style the text is not displayed.Why is this happening and how to…
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