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From: Bruce2u2 on 1 Jul 2010 00:08 Karl, Congratulations on solving this problem thirteen years after I posed it. I tried to read through some of your code, but it just makes my eyes cross. I don't have VB on my machine, so that makes it even harder to follow, but the EXE ran and demonstrated that you had indeed brought up the dialog and that Tab and Enter worked.I'm not sure that your reason for doing it was justified, but if you had fun, that's all that counts. As far as Find and Replace go, I still think the solution I presented in the book (a custom form) is better than the standard dialog for most situations for the reasons I presented. But I'm glad you solved the problem and I hope you didn't waste as much time on your success as I did on my failure. Bruce
From: Kevin Provance on 1 Jul 2010 00:38 "Bruce2u2" <bruce2u2(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:5f850c1d-848d-4611-946e-e4f8dd57bff2(a)l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com... : Karl, : : Congratulations on solving this problem thirteen years after I posed : it. I tried to read through some of your code, but it just makes my : eyes cross. I don't have VB on my machine, so that makes it even : harder to follow, but the EXE ran and demonstrated that you had indeed : brought up the dialog and that Tab and Enter worked.I'm not sure that : your reason for doing it was justified, but if you had fun, that's all : that counts. As far as Find and Replace go, I still think the solution : I presented in the book (a custom form) is better than the standard : dialog for most situations for the reasons I presented. But I'm glad : you solved the problem and I hope you didn't waste as much time on : your success as I did on my failure. : : Bruce <MILDHEROWORSHIP> Wow, Bruce McKinney stopped by. Wicked cool! I loved your book and the CD that came with, learned a *lot*. Thank you for your efforts. </MILDHEROWORSHIP> I was researching some of this for Karl, and dicovered the problem of searching for case and whole word is solved with the EM_FINDTEXT in which FR_MATCHCASE and FR_WHOLEWORD are entered in the wParam. If the string target is found, the ret val is the zero-based position of the first character of the first instance found. The caveat, it's gotta be a RTB, apparently. If it also works for the standard text box, the docs did not say. Am going to play with this within Karl's example and see what happens! Peace! - Kev
From: Kevin Provance on 1 Jul 2010 00:40 "Leo" <ttdhead(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:i0h41b$sgj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... : : I think it would be nice to still have it work with a textbox as thats : what my app currently uses, but I may convert it to a RTB if I can work : out issues. I'mm going to check my API solution with a regular textbox anyway and see what happens. Will post something when I know something. :-) - Kev -- Customer Hatred Knows No Bounds at MSFT Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org ClassicVB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Bawwk! Paulie want a dingleball, bawwk!
From: Kevin Provance on 1 Jul 2010 01:58 "Leo" <ttdhead(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:i0h41b$sgj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... : : I think it would be nice to still have it work with a textbox as thats : what my app currently uses, but I may convert it to a RTB if I can work : out issues. Good news and bad news. The good news is the search and seek of text within a RTB can be done with a few lines of code, using API. Bad news, this will not work on a regular text box with the API solution. Will see if I can come up with something similar. In the meantime (tomorrow) I'm going to send Karl a copy of his code with the RTB replacement and the API and see if it's of any use to him. - Kev -- Customer Hatred Knows No Bounds at MSFT Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org ClassicVB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Bawwk! Paulie want a dingleball, bawwk!
From: Larry Serflaten on 1 Jul 2010 07:51
"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote > > I've looked at both methods, and not tried either of them (yet), but from a > > first glance perspective, how is your method any less 'bizarre'? > > Well, for the most obvious thing, the KB sample won't do any > accelerator key handling (Tab, Enter, Escape, arrows, etc.). Obvious > to me, at any rate, because that was kind of a bear to work out. > Theirs won't even trigger when you press the spacebar and the command > button has focus. <... snipped for brievity ...> > They never unhook the subclass, either. Hmmm... Sloppy. <...> > Yes, they *do* manage to pop the dialog without a GPF. I guess that's > something. <g> But it's pretty darn far from functional. Thanks for the point by point analysis. You've covered several things I very probably would have overlooked. LFS |