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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.

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Sendmessage from subclassed control (CEDIT) to parent window

I have subclassed a CEdit control (CCheckeEdit). I need to catch ON_CHANGE for this class and send the message to dialog (catch EN_CHANGE in dialog, too). In subclassed CCheckeEdit, I have followed hook procedure: BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CCheckedEdit,…
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MFC, Is there any handy way to get the contents of an edit box within its member function?

I'm customizing an edit box by inheriting a new class from CEdit based on MFC. And I suppose to access its contents (text) inside its member funtions. I wonder if there is any handier/safer/faster way to read and write the string, than calling the…
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MFC: dynamically created CEdit is not animated and does not change the appearance

Does anyone know why my dynamically created CEdit is not animated like a CEdit control created in the dialog editor? When hovering with the cursor over the control, the color of the frame does not change (In normal case the gray color changes…
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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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Strange font effect after when appending text to CEdit control

After noticing the slowness of the interface updating, I followed the advice on CEdit SetWindowText rediculously slow for appending text to a CEdit control. Then I replaced void CMyPropertyPage::Log(const CString& sLog) { CString str; …
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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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Entering newline in a cedit control

A very straightforward question.... How do you enter a new line in a CEdit control box without it triggering OK and closing the dialog box altogether? What I mean is when you hit the enter key it automatically selects OK, even if your cursor is…
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