Adding Strings To A Listbox From A Multiline TextBox.

I suggest you create only one buffer which is big enough to hold any line of text (255 bytes). You'll have some wasted space here but who cares. An alternative would be to also process EM_LINELEGTH message to know exactly the size of the buffer for the line. Anyway I think that pretty soon you'll switch to some kind of C++ classes and then you usually don't need to process those win messages to get it done.

Also, the problem isn't assigning the buffer for the string. Its that when a line is longer in the textbox than the one below it there seems to be some overflow?

TCHAR lstboxstr[255];

// Count previously defined as the number of lines in the textbox

for (i=0 ; i < count ; i++)

{


SendMessage(txtbox, EM_GETLINE, i, (LPARAM) &lstboxstr);


SendMessage(lstBox, LB_ADDSTRING, i, (LPARAM) lstboxstr);
}

Fist of all don't have a go about the coding i just testing stuff. But anyway, the loop begins with lstboxstr has a buffer of 255. But there seems to be some foreign characters appear and the text is never as it appears in the textbox, there are always bits added to it.

Thanks that works just fine. Could you just explain one part to me...

*((WORD*)lstboxstr) = 255;

Am i right in saying that you are creating a pointer of the type WORD and casting lstboxstr to that type? But why the asterisk before the opening bracket?

That line of code isn't needed, at least not on my system. Danny is right but it's WORD not DWORD