Edit Control Window Class

The edit control's window class descibes a regular text edit box.

The button control's window class is registered automatically when Windows starts. The name of the class is "EDIT".

Styles

ES_AUTOHSCROLL

Automatically scroll the text to the right when the user types a character at the end of the line. When the user pressed ENTER, scroll the text all the way back to the left.

ES_AUTOVSCROLL

Automatically scroll the text back up when the user presses ENTER on the last line.

ES_CENTER

Center the text horizontally.

ES_LEFT

Left-align the text.

ES_LOWERCASE

Convert all the characters to lowercase as they are typed.

ES_MULTILINE

The edit control displays multiple lines of text. If this flag is not specified, it can only display a single line of text.

ES_NOHIDESEL

Do not hide the selected text in the edit control even if the control loses focus.

ES_NUMBER

Only allow digits to be entered into the edit control.

ES_OEMCONVERT

Ensure that text in the edit control can readily be converted into the OEM character set.

ES_PASSWORD

Display an asterisk for each character typed into the edit control. This cannot be used with ES_MULTILINE.

ES_READONLY

Do not allow the user to edit the text in the control.

ES_RIGHT

Right-align the text.

ES_UPPERCASE

Convert all the characters to uppercase as they are typed.

ES_WANTRETURN

Insert a carriage return into a multi-line edit control when the user pressed ENTER, instead of implementing the default behavior of ENTER.

Constant Definitions

Const ES_AUTOHSCROLL = &H80
Const ES_AUTOVSCROLL = &H40
Const ES_CENTER = &H1
Const ES_LEFT = &H0
Const ES_LOWERCASE = &H10
Const ES_MULTILINE = &H4
Const ES_NOHIDESEL = &H100
Const ES_NUMBER = &H2000
Const ES_OEMCONVERT = &H400
Const ES_PASSWORD = &H20
Const ES_READONLY = &H800
Const ES_RIGHT = &H2
Const ES_UPPERCASE = &H8
Const ES_WANTRETURN = &H1000

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