How to retain the selected text after losing focus

josh

I am trying to make a form that lets our users maintain various pieces of text (which must be entered as html). I want to allow the user to bold the selected text, but when I click the bold button, the selection disappears. Is there anyway of retaining the selection after losing focus? I guess I could record the selection on the lost focus, but I was wondering if there was a better way?

See the below image for what I mean:

DonBakke

You can set the Raw Style Bit for this:


Alternatively, you can programmatically set this style ES_NOHIDESEL (0x0100).

josh

Perfect thanks.

I have noticed another issue as well. It seems that the presence of @tm (new lines) in the edit box causes the selection property to be inaccurate. I will try to figure out exactly what is going on and describe it, but you may already know what I am getting at?

DonBakke

Do you suspect it is off by one character for each line in the edit box?

josh

yes

DonBakke

Then I suspect it has to do with the difference between the internal delimiter (@TM, which is one character) and the Windows controls delimiter (CR/LF, which is two characters). I suggest adding an extra character per @TM you see in the string.

josh

Good point, that's probably what the issue is.

Thanks!