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From: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hilighting Text in edit fields
Message-ID: <12583@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 22:50:33 GMT
References: <12265@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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In article <12265@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> pdavid@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Paul C. David) writes:
>Just wondering.  Does anyone know how to highlight text
>in edit fields, i.e. when the focus is set to it? 

You send the EM_SETSEL message to the edit window to highlight text.  In
order to do that when the window gets the focus, you will have to subclass
the edit window and look for an incoming WM_SETFOCUS message.  If you need
more information on subclassing, try Petzold's book for a pretty good
description.  Subclassing is a necessary technique for doing involved
Windows programming.

	brent
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