What device context methods are available to Crichedit

[ForNow]

Hi, I know that rich edit controls have thier own interface but would any one know which of the CDC methods are available and at what point to a rich edit Specfically I would like to set the Font and text Color initially

[karle]

A device context is used to render the content of the richedit to a device to intialise the width for word breaks. use CRichEditCtrl::SetDefaultCharFormat to set the default format of the text. It takes a CHARFORMAT2 to structure where you can set the font and the textcolor. Remember to initialize the cbSize with the size of CHARFORMAT2 and to set the dwMask Member to flag which properties you want to set. Use CRichEditCtrl::SetSelectionCharFormat() to format the selected text. When set SetWordWrapMode() you should also call SetTargetDevice to set the width of a line. Use FormatRange to render the content to a device.

[ForNow]

In other words all these Richedit methods act as interface to CClientDC object

[karle]

I didn't get you real question! CRichEditCtrl is a control an displays its content in the wm_paint event to the paint dc. Only if the control should calculate sizes or draw it's content a device context is needed. If you require a "WYSIWYG" you should apply the device context of the desired device. If you want to calculate the size or want to draw it to a context you have to call FormatRange Method and apply the deviceContext of the target device to the formatrange structure. If you want to learn, how richeditctrl realy works, see MSDN : Rich Edit Control Examples[^]

[ForNow]

Thought if you wanted to CDC::SetTextColor you would need need ther Device COntext but like you said in a Earlier post you can use SetCharformat for that