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CRichEditCtx.ExGetSelmethod

Retrieves the starting and ending character positions of the selection in a rich edit control.

Windowsmethoddocumented

Syntax

FUNCTION ExGetSel OVERLOAD () AS CHARRANGE
FUNCTION ExGetSel OVERLOAD (BYREF cpMin AS LONG, BYVAL cpMax AS LONG)

Parameters

NameDescription
cpMinCharacter position index immediately preceding the first character in the range.
cpMazCharacter position immediately following the last character in the range.

Return value

The first overloaded method returns a CHARRANGE structure with the selection range.

The second overloaded method does not return a value. The values are filled in the passed parameters.

Description

Oveloaded method to retrieve the starting and ending character positions of the selection in a rich edit control.

Example

type _charrange field = 4 cpMin as LONG cpMax as LONG end type

type CHARRANGE as _charrange

Reference

  • Defined in AfxNova/CRichEditCtx.inc:1986
  • Documented in Windows/WIndows Controls/RichEdit/CRichEditCtx Class.md
  • Topic: CRichEditCtx Class