Edit box

Nishad S

I want to show multiline text in my dialog. I have some conditions. . If the number of lines is three or less it should come the center of the dialog vertically. . If it exceeds 3 lines, 3 lines should appear to the user and a vertical scrollbar should come to view the remaining lines by scrolling down. Which control should I use for the best result? The text will be unicode format. Thanks for suggestions. - NS -

toxcct

EditBox (CEdit in MFC), created with the multiline flag... see the properties box in design mode into Visual Studio

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Nishad S

Is there any method to get the line height in EditBox?

toxcct

line height ?:confused: you want to count 3 lines or what ?

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Christian Graus

This sounds like an owner drawn control to me, unless the richedit box has a property to centre the text. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Nishad S

I have an idea to dynamically set the window pos to center. If I have the line height then can calculate the window pos. And also set the visible line count to 3.

Eytukan

i guess u want m_Text.LineLength() ??:~ V

MailtoGops

You can use MFC CEdit::GetLineCount() or the Win32 Message EM_GETLINECOUNT to get the number of lines. --> . If the number of lines is three or less it should come the center of the dialog vertically. I can't understand your question properly. do you meant to say if the number of lines are 3 or less, you don't want any scrollbar? " Action without vision is only passing time, Vision without action is merely day dreaming, But vision with action can change the world " - Words from Nelson Mandela Thanks & Regards, Gopalakrishnan

David Crow

It sounds like you need to use the ES_CENTER and ES_MULTILINE styles.

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David Crow

Nishad S wrote: I have an idea to dynamically set the window pos to center. If you are wanting to center the actual edit control within its parent, you'll need to use MoveWindow() or SetWindowPos(). If you are using MFC, check out the CWnd::CenterWindow() method.

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