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#61

Feature requests / Re: RichEdit 4.1

Last post by John Z - November 01, 2025, 11:50:37 AM

Thanks Timo!  👍👍👍

Grabbed them.

I would not be surprised to see Richedit 1 and 2 depreciated in the near future.
Win 11 notepad already uses 4.1.

John Z

#62

Beginner questions / Re: Createwindow

Last post by John Z - October 31, 2025, 09:50:00 AM

Hi DonnyDave,

COMBOBOX, LISTBOX and DROPDOWNLISTBOX as well.

Your request is too broad for a specific answer.  You can get a start by using Pelle resource IDE to create the list type you want.  Then you use SendMessage to interact with the control.

For an offline help download controls.chm from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-controls-api-docs/

Go to the "Control Library" section from there you will see Listbox, and ComboBox entries which show functions, macros, messages etc to use to interact with the control.

Otherwise if you post small examples of where you are 'stuck' doing something, a more focused help would probably be provided.

John Z

#63

Beginner questions / Re: Createwindow

Last post by Vortex - October 30, 2025, 08:01:47 PM

Some tutorials :

https://winprog.org/tutorial/controls.html

https://zetcode.com/gui/winapi/advancedcontrols/

#64

Beginner questions / Re: Createwindow

Last post by DonnyDave - October 30, 2025, 03:06:04 PM

COMBOBOX, LISTBOX and DROPDOWNLISTBOX as well.

#65

Beginner questions / Re: Createwindow

Last post by TimoVJL - October 30, 2025, 02:32:15 PM

Do you mean COMBOBOX ?

Standard Controls: Button, Edit, List Box

#66

Feature requests / Re: RichEdit 4.1

Last post by TimoVJL - October 30, 2025, 01:16:15 PM

Sure we can.

Also make just a ref

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#pragma comment(lib, "msftedit.lib")
int CALLBACK REExtendedRegisterClass(void *p);

FARPROC pDllGetVersion = (FARPROC)REExtendedRegisterClass;

msftedit.def for x86

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LIBRARY msftedit.dll
EXPORTS
_IID_IRichEditOle DATA
_IID_IRichEditOleCallback DATA
_IID_ITextServices DATA
_IID_ITextHost DATA
_IID_ITextHost2 DATA
_CreateTextServices@12
_REExtendedRegisterClass@0
_RichEditANSIWndProc@16
_RichEdit10ANSIWndProc@16
_SetCustomTextOutHandlerEx
_DllGetVersion@4
_RichEditWndProc@16
_RichListBoxWndProc@16
_RichComboBoxWndProc@16

msftedit.def for x64

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LIBRARY MSFTEDIT.dll
EXPORTS
IID_IRichEditOle DATA
IID_IRichEditOleCallback DATA
IID_ITextServices DATA
IID_ITextHost DATA
IID_ITextHost2 DATA
CreateTextServices
REExtendedRegisterClass
RichEditANSIWndProc
RichEdit10ANSIWndProc
SetCustomTextOutHandlerEx
DllGetVersion
RichEditWndProc
RichListBoxWndProc
RichComboBoxWndProc

#67

Beginner questions / Createwindow

Last post by DonnyDave - October 30, 2025, 01:14:18 PM

 
 
I'm not understanding how to create a "dropdown listbox" window.
I've searched lots of Microsoft pages, but still can't find the answers.

     hwndStringSize = CreateWindow
        (
          TEXT ("LISTBOX"),
          NULL,
          WS_CHILDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE,
          x, y,             //  Position
          width, height,    //  width, height,
          hwnd,
          (HMENU)LB_ADDSTRING,
          ghInstance,
          NULL
        );

How do I specify a "dropdown" box ?
How do I setup the initial values ? (say 1,2,3,4, ..etc)
How do I notify the mother window of a mouse click ? ("case LB_ADDSTRING :" not working)
How do I find out what the user selected in the listbox ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 Dave

#68

Feature requests / Re: RichEdit 4.1

Last post by Vortex - October 30, 2025, 11:43:41 AM

Hi Timo,

We can create an import library for this dll. The Masm64 and Msys2 setups are providing the library.

#69

Feature requests / Re: RichEdit 4.1

Last post by TimoVJL - October 30, 2025, 08:24:08 AM

Meanwhile:
It is possible to add richedit 4.1 to dialog via custom control or add richedit control and change classname to "RichEdit50W"
and LoadLibrary("Msftedit.dll");

#70

Feature requests / RichEdit 4.1

Last post by John Z - October 29, 2025, 02:45:46 PM

Please consider adding Richedit4.1 to the control tool box in a future version release.
It uses the newer RTF DLL Msftedit.dll.

Calling syntax:

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    HWND hwndEdit= CreateWindowEx(0, MSFTEDIT_CLASS, TEXT("Type here"),
        ES_MULTILINE | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP,
        x, y, width, height,
        hwndOwner, NULL, hinst, NULL);
John Z