CRichEditCtrl::GetSelectionType

WORD GetSelectionType( ) const;

Return Value

Flags indicating the contents of the current selection. A combination of the following flags:

SEL_EMPTY Indicates that there is no current selection.
SEL_TEXT Indicates that the current selection contains text.
SEL_OBJECT Indicates that the current selection contains at least one OLE item.
SEL_MULTICHAR Indicates that the current selection contains more than one character of text.
SEL_MULTIOBJECT Indicates that the current selection contains more than one OLE object.

Remarks

Call this function to determine the selection type in this CRichEditCtrl object.

For more information, see EM_SELECTIONTYPE in the Win32 documentation.

Example

// The pointer to my rich edit control.
extern CRichEditCtrl* pmyRichEditCtrl;

// Dump the selection text only if it contains at least one text character.
if (pmyRichEditCtrl->GetSelectionType() & (SEL_TEXT | SEL_MULTICHAR))
{
   CString strText = pmyRichEditCtrl->GetSelText();

   TRACE(TEXT("selection text is '%s'.\r\n"), (LPCSTR) strText);
}

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