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Re: Global data segments for edit controls

#712
From: Ken SYKES
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1990 00:53
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In article <8995@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> tracy@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tracy Elmore) writes:
>Has anyone succeeded in creating edit controls that have their own data
>segment?  (I'm talking about edit control windows, not the controls inside
>dialog boxes.)  
>I have some examples from MS Online on how to do this, and I 

This is a shot in the dark but make sure you use DS_LOCALEDIT in the 
style field of your edit control (Either in the dialog template or the
CreateWindow call.)  If this flag isn't set EM_GETHANDLE and EM_SETHANDLE
aren't going to do what you wanna do.  

Hope this helps.

Ken Sykes
Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.

P.S.  A few people have mailed things to me directly and I have no success
getting replies back.  If you have questions please send them to this forum
so that I can reply and others can benefit as well. 
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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
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Subject: Re: Global data segments for edit controls
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