dynamically display WS_VSCROLL for CTRL EDIT

[vonHerman]

Hi all,

I just wanted to know if there is any way to detect overflow in EDITBOX and display vertical scroll only if needed?

I have the log box which is updated with new line for every application event and it is displayed with following styles:

GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 10, 50, 480, 200, BitOR($ES_WANTRETURN, $ES_MULTILINE, $ES_AUTOVSCROLL, $ES_READONLY, $WS_VSCROLL))

But I would really be happy if I could hide scrollbar gadget entirely when it's not needed.

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Thank you

vonHerman

[MikahS]

Using

_GUICtrlEdit_LineLength

to determine what the length by line using a for loop; also using

AdlibRegister("func", 250)

to run this func to get the length of the index after you find out how many lines you have using

_GUICtrlEdit_GetLine

should get you in the right direction. I'm not sure you can add scroll on the fly, but you can always get the text using

_GUICtrlEdit_GetText

then deleting the edit control and creating a new one with the text you got from your call to

_GUICtrlEdit_GetText

Hopefully this will give you a better idea of how this would work.

[MikahS]

You would have to figure out the length of characters it takes to hit the end of the edit controls visible field, but that is easily tested will playing