Creating a Text editor

[orcblood]

Okay, I have the window, title, toolbar, and basic commands done... All that I have to do is create the editbox (or whatever its called) for the text to go into... How would I do this? I dont really know where to place thiscodde? And how would I go about creating the editbox? Ive never really used MFC in this area before. Thanks, orcblood

[Jaran Nilsen]

Well, the first thing would be: Are you using the visual tools in VisualStuio to create your application, or are you coding everything from scratch? If you use the visual tool, it's simple drag&drop to create it, and then you assign a member variable for it. If you create it from scratch it's a bit more work, but should not be too much. I do not have the code at hand now, but it should be something like this: CEdit editMyTextEditor; editMyTextEditor.Create(...); //replace "..." with parameters editMyTextEditor.MoveWindow(RECT); //Place the control within your window. editMyTextEditor.ShowWindow(); As I said I am not sure if this is the correct sequence to create the control and showing it, but hopefully you can get something out of it. I will dig out some code for you tomorrow if you have not yet found something, but right now I am going to bed!:)

[orcblood]

Okay, I don't know how to use Visual Tools :). Is that for .net? I suppose I should say that I have MSVC++ 6.0 no thte .net version... Anyways, I would greatly appreciate you looking for some code :) I really don't know how to do it in MFC but I know how to do it in a standard C++ file - I just couldn't get the program looking the way I want... And after creating my MP3 player in MFC Ive decided that it would be easier/better to create the program in MFC. Thanks, orcblood

[Nish Nishant]

Create an MFC SDI application and choose CEditView for your view class. Your text editor is ready. Nish

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[Jaran Nilsen]

I will look for some code tomorrow. But you also have the ability to make your application visually in VisualStudio 6.0. When you create a new application, you will have an option for what class your C...View class should be derived from. There you select CFrameView. If you use dialog based application, you don't have to select anything. Then on your resource Tab you will have all your visual parts, and you can modify them. Play around and see what you can find out... See u tomorrow then.

[Jaran Nilsen]

Ahhh, ok, I am unable to go to bed before this is solved:P Well, here's the code. Three lines that's all that's needed: CEdit m_editEditor; m_editEditor.Create(ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_LEFT,CRect(50,50,150,70),this,NULL); m_editEditor.ShowWindow(SW_NORMAL); Voilà! This creates the most basic single line control. You can change the CRect parameters to change the size, and you change the ES_ values to change the look and behaviour of the control. The last parameter is the controls ID, which I could not be bothered to make. but it's simply a #define IDC_EDIT_MYEDIT 100 statement to create that.. Well, hope this sorted things out. NOW i have to sleep;) Good luck with your programming. -Jaran

[orcblood]

Wow thanks for your help. I just have one problem about where to place this code - that is if its for coding straight into the program without using the class wiz... Where would I place this code about? Ive tried in some differenft spots and it doesn't really seem to be working too good :). orcblood

[Jaran Nilsen]

Well you should put it in your init or startup function, where you define controls, set the window size...

[orcblood]

How would I get rid of the MFC logo? orcblood