HE_CHARPOSITION

Converts a byte offset in the text buffer of a control to the logical character position, which contains the byte specified by the byte offset. Submessage of WM_PENCTL.

Parameters

wParam

HE_CHARPOSITION.

lParam

The low-order word contains the byte offset. The high word is reserved and must be 0.

Return Value

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

Comments

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

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