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From: "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: RichEdit control question
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:32:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Mayayana <mayayana@invalid.nospam> schrieb im Beitrag
<j7d65b$ff7$1@dont-email.me>...
>    That makes it confusing. There's no such thing
> as a RichEdit control in the API. A control is a wrapper
> around the API or other functionality. There's a
> RichEdit library. (Which comes in several versions,
> but that's probably not relevant here.) In other words,
> if you use the API there's no control. There's API. :)

That's not correct. Since Windows 95 the Rich Edit Control is shipped with
Windows as part of the Windows API, like the "Edit", "Button", etc.
control. Cmp.
 
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787873%28v=vs.85%
29.aspx>
(... Windows Controls > Control Library > Rich Edit > Rich Edit Control
Overviews > About Rich Edit Controls)

A "control" is not a wrapper around the API. The ActiveX controls shipped
with VB are - mostly - "wrappers around" the Windows API controls.

-- 
Thorsten Albers

gudea  at  gmx.de