Retrieving the selection from a GUICtrlCreateInput

[Eigensheep]

I have a GUI with a multi-line input control (GUICtrlCreateInput) and when the user clicks a button, I'd like to know what they've selected within it. I got as far as ControlFocus but then what? GUICtrlRead just gives me the whole text in the box (as you'd expect).

I'm probably missing something really simple but any help would be great.

[martin]

I have a GUI with a multi-line input control (GUICtrlCreateInput) and when the user clicks a button, I'd like to know what they've selected within it. I got as far as ControlFocus but then what? GUICtrlRead just gives me the whole text in the box (as you'd expect).

I'm probably missing something really simple but any help would be great.

Look up _GUICtrlEdit_GetSel, I think that will do what you want. It returns the starting and ending character positions of the selected text, so I assume you do this

$StartEnd = _GUICtrlEdit_GetSel(GuiCtrlGetHandle($edit))
$Selected = StringMid(GuiCtrlRead($Edit),$StartEnd[0] + 1,$StartEnd[1] - $StartEnd[0])

EDIT: ?? How do you get a multiline input using GUICtrlCreateInput? Do you mean GuiCtrlCreateEdit?

Edited May 14, 2008 by martin

[Eigensheep]

I used GUICtrlCreateInput("",81,272,480,141,0x00201044).

Sorry for the bad syle reference. While we're on the topic though, I put the style in manually to combine more than one style as I couldn't get it to work with BitAnd() BitOr() And() or Or(). Is there a way of doing this using constants?

[Edit]

Sorry, found that it will work if I use BitOr(). In that case the syntax becomes:

GUICtrlCreateInput("",81,272,480,141,BitOr($WS_VSCROLL, $ES_AUTOVSCROLL, $ES_MULTILINE, $ES_WANTRETURN)).

Thanks for the help.

Edited May 14, 2008 by NumberDaemon