   Highlight edit box selection (SOLVED)
  I'm currently exploring the resource editor in Visual C++. I added some edit boxes to my window, but they give me some headaches because of 2 things I can't accomplish:1: (more general, not only edit boxes) using the tab button doesn't switch to another control, although I set the tab stops for some items.2: when I set the focus on an edit box, I want to 'highlight' the text (number) inside (i.o.w. it should become blue, the same as when you double-click on it)If you people can tell me how to archieve the two things above, I'm a very happy man (for about 5 seconds until I find a new problem, but nevertheless...)[Edited by - Subotron on June 6, 2006 12:18:48 PM]
  SetSel() SetFocus()other one look ctrl+d set tabstopKuphryn   ;  thanks, but I should've mentioned I'm not using MFC or stdafx.hI tried this:case EN_SETFOCUS:if (LOWORD(wparam) == IDC_EDIT_BOX){HWND temp = GetDlgItem(window.get_wnd(0), IDC_EDIT_BOX); // handler to the edit box (=correct)DWORD text_length = GetWindowTextLength(temp);SetFocus(temp);#ifdef WIN32// This happens, because I can replace the text afterwards, but// just EM_SETSEL doesn't make it blueSendMessage(temp, EM_SETSEL, 0, text_length);#elseSendMessage(temp, EM_SETSEL, 0, MAKELONG (text_length, text_length));#endif}break;As said in the comment, the text is selected (as EM_REPLACESEL works) but doesn't turn blue... (I associate being blue with meaning "if you press a key now this will replace the currently selected text in the edit box" which comes in handy in combination with tabs)[Edited by - Subotron on June 5, 2006 10:19:54 PM];  SetFocus() after SendMessage()Now?Kuphryn   ;  nope, that doesn't work either :(   ;  Sounds like you're doing non modal dialogs, and is forgetting to call IsDialogMessage in your main message loop.   ;  edit: I looked up that function, and put it in my message handler function like this:if (!IsDialogMessage(wnd[0], &msg)){TranslateMessage(&msg;DispatchMessage(&msg;}where wnd[0] is the window handle and translate/dispatch functions where already there but without an if-check.This fixes the no-tab problem, but not the selection problem   ;  hmmm it is fixed now, by throwing out the code I put in at all! Don't know why this failed when I tried before, probably forgot something, but it works now! I never understood that a dialog window CAN do all these things for you, by just one function :)Thanks a lot guys!   