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Re: RichEdit control question

From	"Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: RichEdit control question
Date	2011-10-16 22:10 +0000
Organization	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
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Mayayana <mayayana@invalid.nospam> schrieb im Beitrag
<j7eutt$c4s$1@dont-email.me>...
>    A control is a wrapper. As quoted above, the API
> provides a RichEdit *window*. One can
> create a control using that window. Which is what I said to
> the OP. The window itself has no COM properties or methods,
> only API messages. Which you know....

No, a control is a control. You can create a window with CreateWindow*()
based on the Rich Edit Control Class and then you have a completely
functional Rich Edit Control. You don't have to send any messages yourself
to the control except if you want to _extend its basic functionality_, or
if you want to use functions of the control which do not depend on standard
Windows events.
And there isn't anywhere a definition stating that a control is only a
control if it can't be controlled by API messages...

The lack of COM in this context is completely irrelevant. COM is only _one_
way to implement a control. The controls of the Windows UI are all
'COM-less', i.e. they are not controlled by COM interfaces but by messages
send to them.

>    I'm just trying to clear up any confusion in the
> discussion, in case the OP thinks he can use some kind
> of "Windows RichEdit control" separate from a RichTextBox,
> and then only need to use the API for his one specific need.

The Rich Edit Control doesn't offer what the OP needs, but it can be used
to do what the OP want's to do - without building a new control.

>   Why are you always splitting hairs lately?

I'm not splitting hairs. I only think it might be useful for the OP to know
that what you answered him is not correct.

-- 
Thorsten Albers

gudea  at  gmx.de

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    Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-11 14:17 -0700
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        Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-11 14:59 -0700
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              Re: RichEdit control question Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 08:45 +0100
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-13 10:24 +0100
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-13 11:41 +0100
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  Re: RichEdit control question Eric Coleman <eric@strategon.com> - 2011-10-13 19:55 -0500
    Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-14 09:30 +0100
    Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-15 07:53 -0700
      Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-15 17:03 +0100
      Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 12:25 -0500
        Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 12:29 -0500
        Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-15 12:45 -0700
          Re: RichEdit control question ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-10-15 15:24 -0500
          Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-15 23:16 +0000
            Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-16 18:21 -0700
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 23:15 -0400
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 17:19 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-17 15:59 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 19:59 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-17 17:34 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-17 23:46 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> - 2011-10-18 07:35 -0700
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-18 15:17 +0000
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-19 10:09 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-10-19 18:26 +0100
          Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-15 19:53 -0400
            Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-16 03:32 +0000
              Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 12:02 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-16 22:10 +0000
                Re: RichEdit control question "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-10-16 19:17 -0400
                Re: RichEdit control question "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-10-17 09:43 +0000

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