HE_CHAROFFSET

Converts the logical character position of a character in a control into a byte offset to the character. Submessage of WM_PENCTL.

Parameters

wParam

HE_CHAROFFSET.

lParam

The low-order word contains the logical character position. The high-order word is reserved and must be 0.

Return Value

If the supplied logical character position is less than the total number of logical characters in the control, the low-order word of the return value contains the requested byte offset of the position and the high-order word is 0. Otherwise, the low-order word contains the length of the text in bytes and the high word contains 0xFFFF.

Comments

This submessage is for bedit controls only. Both the logical character position and the byte offset are zero-based.

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