right-to-left style in a CEdit box

Hi cramer,

first I need to say that WS_EX_RIGHT 'style has an effect only if the shell language is Hebrew, Arabic, or
another language that supports reading-order alignment; otherwise, the style is ignored.' (quote from
MSDN). I hope you know this.

Further, maybe (and I can't test coz I don't have environment where this style has an effect) the
problem is that in windows some styles only affect the creation of a control but don't have any
effect when changed after the object has been created (i.e. ES_MULTILINE). So, you can try
to create the edit-control at runtime using CWnd::CreateEx, i.e.:

CEdit* pEdit = new CEdit;
// even add WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE to give the edit-control the 3D-look
pEdit->CreateEx( WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE|WS_EX_RIGHT, "EDIT", NULL, WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|WS_BORDER, CRect(100,100,200,125),
this, 1001);
// BTW, to set the edit control's font to the same as used in the dialog do this:
pEdit->SetFont( GetFont() );

hope that helps,

ZOPPO

What are you passing as the third parameter of the ModifyStyleEx() function.
If you are not passing nothing, the default is 0. Try with
SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE

thanks for the comments.
Yes, I can create the CEdit using CreateEx and the style works ok. But I don't want to. I have an application with loads of dialog boxes in resource files and I can't change that.
WS_EX_RIGHT works with any font as far as I can see. It just right justifies text in the CEdit box.

Trying SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE makes no difference.

The first thing I did was read the online help. And I am aware that WS_EX_RIGHT may not be settable at runtime. But I don't know.
Thats why I'm here.

cel

You can simply check the 'Right aligned text' check box in edit-control's
property-tab 'Extended styles'?

thanks for that.
But thats not want I want to do. If I could get away with that I would.
My application creates a dialog box.
If then works out if the customer is Hebrew or English. If Hebrew, I want to dynamically change the CEdit.

thanks zoppo.
I'll give that a try

cel

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