The example in this section is taken from a simple word-processing application. It includes code that enables the user to set the position of the caret by clicking anywhere on a line of text, and to select (highlight) a line of text by double-clicking anywhere on the line.
LRESULT APIENTRY MainWndProc(HWND hwndMain, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
HDC hdc; // handle of device context
TEXTMETRIC tm; // font size data
int i, j; // loop counters
int cCR = 0; // count of carriage returns
char ch; // character from input buffer
static int nBegLine; // beginning of selected line
static int nCurrentLine = 0; // currently selected line
static int nLastLine = 0; // last text line
static int nCaretPosX = 0; // x-coordinate of caret
static int cch = 0; // number of characters entered
static int nCharWidth = 0; // exact width of a character
static char szHilite[128]; // text string to highlight
static DWORD dwCharX; // average width of characters
static DWORD dwLineHeight; // line height
static POINTS ptsCursor; // coordinates of mouse cursor
static COLORREF crPrevText; // previous text color
static COLORREF crPrevBk; // previous background color
static PTCHAR pchInputBuf; // address of input buffer
static BOOL fTextSelected = FALSE; // text-selection flag
switch (uMsg)
{
case WM_CREATE:
// Get the metrics of the current font.
hdc = GetDC(hwndMain);
GetTextMetrics(hdc, &tm);
ReleaseDC(hwndMain, hdc);
// Save the average character width and height.
dwCharX = tm.tmAveCharWidth;
dwLineHeight = tm.tmHeight;
// Allocate a buffer to store keyboard input.
pchInputBuf = (LPSTR) GlobalAlloc(GPTR,
BUFSIZE * sizeof(TCHAR));
return 0;
case WM_CHAR:
switch (wParam)
{
case 0x08: // backspace
case 0x0A: // linefeed
case 0x1B: // escape
MessageBeep(0xFFFFFFFF);
return 0;
case 0x09: // tab
// Convert tabs to four consecutive spaces.
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
SendMessage(hwndMain, WM_CHAR, 0x20, 0);
return 0;
case 0x0D: // carriage return
// Record the carriage return, and position the
// caret at the beginning of the new line.
pchInputBuf[cch++] = 0x0D;
nCaretPosX = 0;
nCurrentLine += 1;
break;
default: / displayable character
ch = (char) wParam;
HideCaret(hwndMain);
// Retrieve the character's width, and display the
// character.
hdc = GetDC(hwndMain);
GetCharWidth32(hdc, (UINT) wParam, (UINT) wParam,
&nCharWidth);
TextOut(hdc, nCaretPosX,
nCurrentLine * dwLineHeight, &ch, 1);
ReleaseDC(hwndMain, hdc);
// Store the character in the buffer.
pchInputBuf[cch++] = ch;
// Calculate the new horizontal position of the
// caret. If the new position exceeds the maximum,
// insert a carriage return and reposition the
// caret at the beginning of the next line.
nCaretPosX += nCharWidth;
if ((DWORD) nCaretPosX > dwMaxCharX)
{
nCaretPosX = 0;
pchInputBuf[cch++] = 0x0D;
++nCurrentLine;
}
ShowCaret(hwndMain);
break;
}
SetCaretPos(nCaretPosX, nCurrentLine * dwLineHeight);
nLastLine = max(nLastLine, nCurrentLine);
break;
// Process other messages.
case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
// If a line of text is currently highlighted, redraw
// the text to remove the highlighting.
if (fTextSelected)
{
hdc = GetDC(hwndMain);
SetTextColor(hdc, crPrevText);
SetBkColor(hdc, crPrevBk);
TextOut(hdc, 0, nCurrentLine * dwLineHeight,
szHilite, lstrlen(szHilite));
ReleaseDC(hwndMain, hdc);
ShowCaret(hwndMain);
fTextSelected = FALSE;
}
// Save the current mouse-cursor coordinates.
ptsCursor = MAKEPOINTS(lParam);
// Determine which line the cursor is on, and save
// the line number. Do not allow line numbers greater
// than the number of the last line of text. The
// line number is later multiplied by the average height
// of the current font. The result is used to set the
// y-coordinate of the caret.
nCurrentLine = min((int)(ptsCursor.y / dwLineHeight),
nLastLine);
// Parse the text input buffer to find the first
// character in the selected line of text. Each
// line ends with a carriage return, so it is possible
// to count the carriage returns to find the selected
// line.
cCR = 0;
nBegLine = 0;
if (nCurrentLine != 0)
{
for (i = 0; (i < cch) &&
(cCR < nCurrentLine); i++)
{
if (pchInputBuf[i] == 0x0D)
++cCR;
}
nBegLine = i;
}
// Starting at the beginning of the selected line,
// measure the width of each character, summing the
// width with each character measured. Stop when the
// sum is greater than the x-coordinate of the cursor.
// The sum is used to set the x-coordinate of the caret.
hdc = GetDC(hwndMain);
nCaretPosX = 0;
for (i = nBegLine;
(pchInputBuf[i] != 0x0D) && (i < cch); i++)
{
ch = pchInputBuf[i];
GetCharWidth32(hdc, (int) ch, (int) ch, &nCharWidth);
if ((nCaretPosX + nCharWidth) > ptsCursor.x) break;
else nCaretPosX += nCharWidth;
}
ReleaseDC(hwndMain, hdc);
// Set the caret to the user-selected position.
SetCaretPos(nCaretPosX, nCurrentLine * dwLineHeight);
break;
case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK:
// Copy the selected line of text to a buffer.
for (i = nBegLine, j = 0; (pchInputBuf[i] != 0x0D) &&
(i < cch); i++)
{
szHilite[j++] = pchInputBuf[i];
}
szHilite[j] = '\0';
// Hide the caret, invert the background and foreground
// colors, and then redraw the selected line.
HideCaret(hwndMain);
hdc = GetDC(hwndMain);
crPrevText = SetTextColor(hdc, RGB(255, 255, 255));
crPrevBk = SetBkColor(hdc, RGB(0, 0, 0));
TextOut(hdc, 0, nCurrentLine * dwLineHeight, szHilite,
lstrlen(szHilite));
SetTextColor(hdc, crPrevText);
SetBkColor(hdc, crPrevBk);
ReleaseDC(hwndMain, hdc);
fTextSelected = TRUE;
break;
// Process other messages.
default:
return DefWindowProc(hwndMain, uMsg, wParam, lParam);
}
return NULL;
}