CRichEditCtx.GetTextRangemethod

Retrieves a specified range of characters from a rich edit control.

Windowsmethoddocumented

Syntax

FUNCTION GetTextRange (BYREF trg AS .TEXTRANGEW) AS DWORD

FUNCTION GetTextRange (BYVAL cpMin AS LONG = 0, BYVAL cpMax AS LONG = -1) AS DWSTRING

Parameters

Name		Description
`trg`		A TEXTRANGEW structure that specifies the range of characters to retrieve and a buffer to copy the characters to.
`cpMin`		Character position index immediately preceding the first character in the range.
`cpMax`		Character position immediately following the last character in the range. If the cpMin and cpMax members are equal, the range is empty. The range includes everything if cpMin is 0 and cpMax is –1.

Return value

The first overloaded method returns the number of characters copied, not including the terminating null character.

The second overloaded method returns the retrieved text.

Description

Overloaded method that retrieves a specified range of characters from a rich edit control.

Examples

DIM cbLen AS LONG = pRichEdit.GetTextLEngth DIM wstrText AS DWSTRING = WSPACE(cbLen + 1) DIM trg AS TEXTRANGEW trg.chrg.cpMin = 0 trg.chrg.cpMax = -1 trg.lpstrText = wstrtext pRichEdit.GetTextRange(trg) AfxMsg wstrtext

DIM dws AS DWSTRING = pRichEdit.GetTextRange AfxMsg dws

DIM sws AS DWSTRING = pRichEdit.GetTextRange(5, 15) AfxMsg sws

Retrieve all the text using the first overloaded method:

Retrieve all the text using the second overloaded method: Retrieve a range of text.

Reference

Defined in AfxNova/CRichEditCtx.inc:3123
Documented in Windows/WIndows Controls/RichEdit/CRichEditCtx Class.md
Topic: CRichEditCtx Class