CEdit::GetSel

Call this function to get the starting and ending character positions of the current selection (if any) in an edit control, using either the return value or the parameters.

DWORD GetSel( ) const;
void GetSel(
   int& nStartChar,
   int& nEndChar 
) const;

Parameters

  • nStartChar
    Reference to an integer that will receive the position of the first character in the current selection.

  • nEndChar
    Reference to an integer that will receive the position of the first nonselected character past the end of the current selection.

Return Value

The version that returns a DWORD returns a value that contains the starting position in the low-order word and the position of the first nonselected character after the end of the selection in the high-order word.

Remarks

For more information, see EM_GETSEL in the Windows SDK.

Example

// Set the selection to be all characters after the current selection.
DWORD dwSel = m_myEdit.GetSel();
m_myEdit.SetSel(HIWORD(dwSel), -1);

Requirements

Header: afxwin.h

See Also

Reference

CEdit Class

Hierarchy Chart

CEdit::SetSel

Other Resources

CEdit Members