I've got a simple chat program. I use "CreateWindow" function for the typing box:
chat_handle_11 = CreateWindow("EDIT", "", WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT, 226, 447, 424, 23, hWnd, NULL, NULL, NULL);
SendMessage(chat_handle_11, EM_LIMITTEXT, ChatTextLimitInBox, 0L);
When I paste any text containing new line characters (using the right mouse click or ctrl+v), for example:
Test line 1 text
Test line 2 text
Test line 3 text
Only the first line is pasted to the typing window:
Test line 1 text
I'd like to change the text on-paste, to ignore new line characters:
Test line 1 text Test line 2 text Test line 3 text
I tried to handle the WM_PASTE message, unfortunately it didn't work:
switch (message)
{
case WM_PASTE:
{
MessageBox(NULL, "pasting", "pasting", MB_YESNO | MB_ICONQUESTION);
break;
}
...
The MessageBox was never shown. Is WM_PASTE the correct message in this case?
Additionally, I tried to add "ES_MULTILINE" to the CreateWindow, but then, when I attempt to paste the text containing multiple lines, no text is pasted at all, I can only hear the "beep" sound.
I know I could remove new lines by detecting for clipboard changes and then overwrite it, but this solution would "invade" users clipboard, so I don't want to use it.
I would be very appreciate any help.
Thanks to @RbMm for help. I was able to fix the problem.
Fixed code:
chat_handle_11 = CreateWindow("EDIT", "", WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT, 226, 447, 424, 23, hWnd, NULL, NULL, NULL);
SendMessage(chat_handle_11, EM_LIMITTEXT, ChatTextLimitInBox, 0L);
SetWindowSubclass(chat_handle_11, EditBoxForPasteFixes, 0, 0);
Then the new CALLBACK:
LRESULT CALLBACK EditBoxForPasteFixes(HWND handle, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, UINT_PTR, DWORD_PTR) {
switch (uMsg) {
case WM_PASTE:
{
try {
wstring ClipboardText = GetClipboardText();
find_and_replace_ws(ClipboardText, L"\r\n", L" ");
find_and_replace_ws(ClipboardText, L"\r", L" ");
find_and_replace_ws(ClipboardText, L"\n", L" ");
//We don't need to SETSEL, so we keep original position for pasting
//SendMessage(handle, EM_SETSEL, WPARAM(0), LPARAM(-1));
SendMessageW(handle, EM_REPLACESEL, WPARAM(TRUE), LPARAM(ClipboardText.c_str()));
}
catch (...) {
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
break;
}
/*case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
//std::wcout << handle << L" click\n"; //click event works
break;*/
case WM_NCDESTROY:
{
RemoveWindowSubclass(handle, EditBoxForPasteFixes, 0);
// fall through
}
default:
{
return DefSubclassProc(handle, uMsg, wParam, lParam);
}
}
return 0;
}
And GetClipboardText function:
std::wstring GetClipboardText()
{
bool Failed = false;
std::wstring ReturnText = L"";
// Try opening the clipboard
if (!OpenClipboard(nullptr)) {
Failed = true;
}
// Get handle of clipboard object for ANSI text
if (!Failed) {
//HANDLE hData = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
HANDLE hData = GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT);
if (hData == nullptr) {
Failed = true;
}
// Lock the handle to get the actual text pointer
if (!Failed) {
wchar_t * pszText = static_cast<wchar_t*>(GlobalLock(hData));
if (pszText == nullptr) {
Failed = true;
}
if (!Failed) {
std::wstring text(pszText);
ReturnText = text;
}
// Release the lock
GlobalUnlock(hData);
}
// Release the clipboard
CloseClipboard();
}
return ReturnText;
}
For find_and_replace_ws I use the boost function, but can be replaced by anything else:
void find_and_replace_ws(wstring& source, wstring const& find, wstring const& replace)
{
boost::replace_all(source, find, replace);
/*for (std::string::size_type i = 0; (i = source.find(find, i)) != std::string::npos;)
{
source.replace(i, find.length(), replace);
i += replace.length() - find.length() + 1;
}*/
}
Not a perfect code, I know, but enough for my needs :)