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How to control cursor and backspac's position in edit control?

I have an edit control, how I set the cursor to the position that I want within this control, for example, after I type two characters, I don't want the cursor stay at third position instead I want the cursor jump to the fouth position. The same thing for "back space" key, if there is a text in control, and I used this key to delete from the end of text, but I don't want to delete a special character in this text, how to let "back space" jump over from this character to next character.

Thanks.
Hanqian

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AlexFM

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Hanqian

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I have tried it, it doesn't work. After I type two chars. I use pEdit->SetSel(4, 4), it doesn't go to the position 4.

Hanqian

AndyAinscow

I assume your control is empty when you start typing.
You would need to add the third (space) character yourself then position at the end (4th) position.

Hanqian

ASKER

I did add "/" at third position.

Hanqian

AlexFM

If edit control has 3 characters, you can write:

pEdit->SetSel(3, 3);

4 is still out of range.

Hanqian

ASKER

That means that we can't use SetSel() to set the cursor at the blank position of the edit control.

Hanqian

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