How to add text to "edit box" control in visual studio 2005

Question

Dear All,

I want to add some text on a dialog in VS 2005. I have installed Microsoft SDK on my system.

The text which I want to add is very big, it runs upto 4 pages.

So I decided to add edit control with scrollbar, which I am not able to do.

I tried adding through string table, but formatting was not maintained.

Plz let me know, how to show a formatted text upto 4 pages on a dialog.

My application is non MFC application.

Thanks in advance

Vinayaka Karjigi

Answer 1

Have you tried to set the MultiLine attribute of your edit control?

Answer 2

The edit control has a hard limit of 65k worth of text. You may be running into that. Try a rich edit control.

Answer 3

Have you tried manually adding "\r\n" for next line or "\t" for tab in the string buffer. That may do the trick.

Update: Say you want to break the text in two lines TCHAR szEditBoxBuffer[] = TEXT("Hello\r\nWorld"); may do the trick. For tabs TCHAR szEditBoxBuffer[] = TEXT("Hello\tWorld"); This is tedious but this is what i could think of.