Using LEdit with Windows API

LEdit can be most easily used at the Windows API level. This allow you greatest flexibility, you can unlock full its power, but programming becomes most difficult, because you need to use raw Windows messages instead of object-oriented technologies.

To use LEdit with the Windows API you'll need LEDIT.DLL (for 16-bit Windows development) or LEDIT32.DLL (for 32-bit Windows development). The DLL have to be loaded into memory either statically or dynamically. To link the DLL statistically you may call its function LVer(). This will automatically load DLL at the very begining of your application. Otherwise you may load the DLL dynamically by using Windows API function LoadLibrary().

Once the DLL is loaded, you get windows class "LEdit" (for 16-bit) or "LEdit32" (for 32-bit). If you're using C/C++ then you may use constant LEDIT_CLASS defined in LEDIT.H, which represent the right name regardless of environment. You should pass the name of the class as an argument of Windows API function CreateWindow() or CreateWindowEx().

Once you have LEdit window you may flexibly control it via EM_* messages described in LEDIT.H. LEdit will in its turn send you messages, responding to which you may control syntax highlight, background drawing and other processes you want. The default destination for these messages is the parent window, but it may be easily changed with message EM_SETHANDLE.

You see - working with LEdit is very easy!

To know more, see file LEDIT.H from the Shareware package.

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