WIN32 API - Appending text in an EDIT box
 

I was wondering if there is a WINAPI function that allows you to append text to text that is already in an EDIT box, or would I have to create my own function to do this? thanks for any help.

Im using Dev C++ on Win XP.


brent

You can use the EM_REPLACESEL message after setting the caret to the end of the edit control using EM_SETSEL (I think start of -1 and end of 0 does it, but I can't remember for sure).

Alright, thanks i'll try that and see how it works out.

The Dark, your idea worked great, but another problem popped up. Whenever I click the Edit box, the program exits. What could be causing this.

Without looking at your code, I have no idea, sorry.

Yea, my bad, I dont have the code with me at the moment but I will post it.

Completely random stab in the dark... Might you be missing a break statement such that the code which handles a left click runs on into a block for handling close messages or something similar?

Hmmm, thats interesting, i'll take a look at my code.

Ok, I have checked the code over and I didnt see any missing breaks, and I have attached the source for anyone who wants to take a look.

I can't run through your code without the resource.h file (and the other resource files), but here are a few suspicious items:
1. You are sending this dialog message in the "default" case when you receive a dialog message. Possibly this would end up causing an infinite recursion, as you might receive a dialog message in response to this dialog item message.

2. The documentation I read says either return TRUE or FALSE to a dialog message, I'm not sure why you are returning 2 (which would probably be the same as returning TRUE)

3. sizeof(new_name) returns exactly 4 in a 32 bit environment. You need to use strlen to find the length of a string.


Other than that, I can only suggest running the program through a debugger, setting a breakpoint on the EM_REPLACESEL lines and stepping through from there.