CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() is not working right

Question

MFC File: winctrl4.cpp

(C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\atlmfc\\src\\mfc)

CString CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() const
{
    ASSERT(::         


        

Answer 1

To get a wide char string you have to use the EM_GETTEXTEX message. CRichEditCtrl source does not contain a method which utilizes such message. Here is a correct implementation of GetSelText() which actually does return Unicode characters:

CString CRichEditCtrlFix::GetSelText() const
{
    ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));
    CHARRANGE cr;
    cr.cpMin = cr.cpMax = 0;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_EXGETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr);
    CString strText;
    int sz = (cr.cpMax - cr.cpMin + 1) * sizeof(tchar);
    LPTSTR lpsz = strText.GetBufferSetLength(sz);
    lpsz[0] = NULL;
    GETTEXTEX gte;
    memset( >e, 0, sizeof(GETTEXTEX) );
    gte.cb = sz;
    gte.flags = GT_SELECTION;
    if( sizeof(tchar) == 2 ) gte.codepage = 1200;
    ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_GETTEXTEX, (WPARAM)>e, (LPARAM)lpsz);
    strText.ReleaseBuffer();
    return CString(strText);
}

1200 here means UTF-16LE