Controlcommand, Get Row?

[CyberSlug 3]

Larry (or whomever), is is possible to add a ControlCommand that gives the current Column of the caret within an Edit control?

[i have a workaround where I select the text preceding the cursor and count the characters, but it's prefer to do it discretely.]

[Valik 467]

My method of getting the caret position just uses an API function along with AttachThreadInput to get it from whichever program is on top (I tried allowing the user to specify a window, but this was a way bad idea and returned... odd results).

That being said, the column is probably something that's calculated internally. I don't see any glaring "Hey I return the column of the caret" functions when I took a look at the API. It might be possible to write a function that could calculate it, but I think the time and effort would be wasted since it would only work on Microsoft controls. I think you're finding out the hard way that a lot of editors don't always respond correctly to those...

[CyberSlug 3]

I forgot to mention that reading the statusbar is a decent workaround.

Anyway, thanks for trying, Valik

[Valik 467]

I forgot to mention that reading the statusbar is a decent workaround.

Anyway, thanks for trying, Valik

I thought of that until I used Au3_Spy on TextPad.