CRichEditCtrl a WYSIWYG Control -- Don't Think So!

[Larry J Siddens]

I have been struggling over this and I have come to the conclusion that the CRichEditCtrl is NOT a true WYSIWYG control. To see this, create a control that is say 4 inchs wide by 1 inch deep. Now use the SetTargetDevice to attach the control to your default printer, set the font of the control to be 12 pt Times New Roman. The only thing that SetTargetDevice will do is have the control look like it will print for the word break. It will not make the text within the control look like it will when it prints (spacing wise). Now draw a rectangle around the control (have the rectangle several pixels bigger in each direction from the control, since the control will overwrite the rectangle on the screen if they are the same size. If you type some text into the control, when it wraps, you may notice that where the text wraps and the area to the end of the control seems too big and could contain some text. When I first saw this, I was wondering if I didn't correctly calculate the width for the SetTargetDevice. But, when I printed, the text went up to the end of the control next to the right side of the rectangle (well, not all the way). Now if anyone can show me how to make the text spacing within the control look like it will print, please do! Larry J. Siddens Cornerstone Communications TAME THE DOCUMENT MONSTER www.unifier.biz