CRichEditCtrl onthe Fly

[sankar]

Hi Iam trying to create a CRichEditCtrl ( like a popup wondow ) to display a certain text within a CListCtrl when the length of hte text in one of the column of the ListCtrl exceeds 256 characters. This i smy problem : y = 10 ( say ) CRichEditCtrl* myCtrl -= new CRichEditCtrl; myCtrl->Create(WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUPWINDOW | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_READONLY , CRect(x,y - 20, x+ 70, y - 90 ), this, 5001); where this refers to the Handle of the Parent Window the application crashes at this point. Pl. explain me the reason. regards Sankar regards Sankar

[Tomasz Sowinski]

It seems that rich edit can't be a popup window - it must be a child. That's what MSDN says about CRichEditCtrl styles: "Apply the following window styles to an edit control: WS_CHILD - Always." You should create a popup as CWnd-derived class. This popup window should have one child - CRichEditCtrl, probably occupying the whole client area. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com.pl