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[TodWulff]

Hey folks.

Is there a way to prevent a multi-line edit control from scrolling when text is added to it?

If I do a SEND to the control, the control sets the cursor to the bottom of the edit box, just as if the user was typing therein (duh), but if I do a CONTROLSETTEXT, then it resets the control and places the cursor at the top of the control's contents.

My goal is this: I have a multiline edit control which is the console for a serial based device. It is all working as desired, except for this one feature of the console...

I'd like the edit control to auto-scroll if the scroll bar is at the bottom, when new lines of text are received, but I'd like to freeze the text displayed, if the user scrolls up to a specific portion of the previously received text - i.e. the scroll bar is anywhere but at the bottom of the control. Newly received characters should append to the trailing end of the control's text, but when in this non-auto-scrolling mode, the position of the displayed text doesn't change.

Does anyone have any code they can let me make use of, so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel here, or can offer up some suggested code, so that I could implement same?

Please review and advise. Thank you, in advance. Take care.

-t
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[Laszlo]

Look into this thread for an example on how to manipulate an edit control by sending system messages.

[TodWulff]

Thanks Laszlo, I'll take a peek.!.

-t
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