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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: "edit" - class: How to underline?
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.043955.25193@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Oct 90 04:39:55 GMT
References: <90.283.17:04:51@ira.uka.de>
Organization: DKW Systems Corporation, Dallas, TX
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In article <90.283.17:04:51@ira.uka.de> tremmel@ira.uka.de (Wolfgang Tremmel) writes:
>I am trying to program a simple Text - Editor in MS - Windows.
>Now the Question: How can I tell a window with class "edit" to
>allow underlining, bold, italics etc.?
>Has anybody allready done it and how?

Well, this is an interesting one.  Since underlining is done by changing
a font to a different style (so to speak), you can't really say "underline
this text".  What you'd have to do, probably, is sub-class the edit control
and set up one that will monitor the text in the Window.  It would have to
intercept all characters coming into the edit control and output them in their
proper style.  You'd probably have to keep a buffer of text as well so that
you know what's underlined and whats not.  Then, when the screen redraws
you'd have to tell it what text to redraw in underlined form, what to draw
as italics, etc.

Not a straight forward thing to do.  It'd be easy enough to underline all
text, though.
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