edit box getting full

[supadodger]

my edit box is getting full and not showing anymore text unless i delete some stuff from the top...

any simple way to clear all but the last 10 lines every so often?

[PsaltyDS]

The fun way: _GUICtrlEdit_GetLineCount() followed by _GUICtrlEdit_SetSel() to select all but the last 10, then replace the selection with "" using _GUICtrlEdit_ReplaceSel().

You could also just get all the text as a string, manipulate that, then ControlSetText() to put it back.

[Melba23]

supadodger,

Or you could postpone the inevitable by using _GUICtrlEdit_SetLimitText to increase the default Windows limit of 32k chars in an edit control.

M23

[PsaltyDS]

No, no! RegExp! There must be a RegExp!

[Melba23]

Calling George! Calling George!

M23

[supadodger]

supadodger,

Or you could postpone the inevitable by using _GUICtrlEdit_SetLimitText to increase the default Windows limit of 32k chars in an edit control.

M23

i figured it out i just set a counter to clear the editbox every 500 lines...

thanks guys.

lol wow...

weird knowing ive used over 32k characters haha

Edited October 4, 2010 by supadodger

[PsaltyDS]

Just in case the OP wanted and actual working version based on the original intent:

#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>

Global $hGUI, $idButton, $sText = "", $idEdit

; Create GUI
$hGUI = GUICreate("Edit Replace Sel", 400, 340)
For $n = 1 To 100
    $sText &= "This is line " & $n & @CRLF
Next
$idEdit = GUICtrlCreateEdit($sText, 10, 10, 380, 280)
$idButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Last 10", 150, 300, 100, 30)
GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $idButton
            $sText = ControlGetText($hGUI, "", $idEdit)
            $sText = StringMid($sText, StringInStr($sText, @LF, False, -10))
            ControlSetText($hGUI, "", $idEdit, $sText)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

All the other references to _GuiCtrlEdit_SetLimitTest() are certainly a simpler option, though.

Edited October 5, 2010 by PsaltyDS

[enaiman]

Recently I found that GUICtrlSetLimit works very well in this case.