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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hilighting Text in edit fields
Message-ID: <106580050@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 17:40:45 GMT
References: <12265@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> 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.

Not necessarily -- when the edit field gets the focus, it sends an EN_SETFOCUS
notification to its parent (WM_COMMAND, wParam == edit field ID,
LOWORD(lParam) == EN_SETFOCUS)

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems