Re: Problem displaying RTF in CRichEditCtrl
"nomad" <nomad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have an app that uses CRichEditCtrl in various places to display RTF
text.
Typically, I have the RTF stored as a string resource, and I just load it
and
call SetWindowText() to display it.
That all worked perfectly well for quite some time. Recently, I updated to
VS2008 and VC9, and now I've noticed that this seems to have broken.
Specifically, if I pass a wide-character string containing RTF text
specifications (e.g., "{\rtf\...}"), the control displays the actual RTF
syntax as plaintext without interpreting it. If, however, I pass the
string
as single-byte text, it displays as rich text, with formatting and all.
I compile with _UNICODE set, I've specified RichEdit20W in the dialog
templates, I pass a CString to SetWindowText(). I look in the disassembly
and
it appears that SetWindowTextW() is getting called. Sending a WM_SETTEXT
message instead of SetWindowText() makes no difference. Before setting the
text, I call SetTextMode() on the control with (TM_RICHTEXT |
TM_MULTICODEPAGE).
As I said, all of this worked before, but something has changed. Any ideas
what it might be?
I don't know, but I don't think calling SetWindowText() ever worked for me
at all. I had to use StreamIn() to feed the control formatted text.
-- David
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