Possible to autowrap text in an Edit control? - (Moved)

[tbodine88]

I use a Edit Box to enter text into a log

But when I reach the right edge the text isn't wrapped, so I must wrap  it my self by adding new lines

Is it possible to get the lines wrapped in some way?

Should I use another GUI object?

 

Thanks

editTest.au3

[Melba23]

Moved to the appropriate AutoIt General Help and Support forum, as the Developer General Discussion forum very clearly states:

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[Nine]

Try $ES_WANTRETURN style on edit box

[tbodine88]

Thanks for that, I had that on the "history" edit

but not the "entry" edit box.

but I'd prefer that the Edit box would add new lines at 79 characters like VIM does. when I set it.

 

[Nine]

You could GUIRegisterMsg $WM_COMMAND and in the WinProc on the $EN_CHANGE notification, calculate the number of characters between @CRLF and add it when necessary.

[tbodine88]

Since The control doesn't have the ability to wrap words. I wrote this to wrap words after the text is pulled from the control.

Func wordWrap( $string, $linelength=79)
   ;Wrap Lines on spaces
    $chopped = StringSplit($string," ")
    $thisLine = ""
    $paragraph = ""
    for $i = 1 to UBound($chopped) -1
        if Not (StringRight($thisLine,1) = " ") Then
            $thisLine = $thisLine & " "
        EndIf
        $thisLine = $thisLine & $chopped[$i] & " "
        if (StringLen($thisLine) > $linelength) Then
            $paragraph = $paragraph & $thisLine & @CRLF
            $thisLine = ""
        EndIf
    Next
    $string = $paragraph & $thisLine
    Return $string
EndFunc