EDITWORDBREAKPROCA callback function (winuser.h)

An application-defined callback function used with the EM_SETWORDBREAKPROC message. A multiline edit control or a rich edit control calls an EditWordBreakProc function to break a line of text.

The EDITWORDBREAKPROC type defines a pointer to this callback function. EditWordBreakProc is a placeholder for the application-defined function name.

Syntax

EDITWORDBREAKPROCA Editwordbreakproca;

int Editwordbreakproca(
  [in] LPSTR lpch,
  [in] int ichCurrent,
  [in] int cch,
  [in] int code
)
{...}

Parameters

[in] lpch

Type: LPTSTR

A pointer to the text of the edit control.

[in] ichCurrent

Type: int

An index to a character position in the buffer of text that identifies the point at which the function should begin checking for a word break.

[in] cch

Type: int

The number of TCHARs in the edit control text. For the ANSI text, this is the number of bytes; for the Unicode text, this is the number of WCHARs.

[in] code

Type: int

The action to be taken by the callback function. This parameter can be one of the following values.

Return value

Type: int

If the code parameter specifies WB_ISDELIMITER, the return value is nonzero (TRUE) if the character at the specified position is a delimiter, or zero if it is not. If the code parameter specifies WB_CLASSIFY, the return value is the character class and word break flags of the character at the specified position. Otherwise, the return value is an index to the beginning of a word in the buffer of text.

Remarks

A carriage return followed by a line feed must be treated as a single word by the callback function. Two carriage returns followed by a line feed also must be treated as a single word.

An application must install the callback function by specifying the address of the callback function in an EM_SETWORDBREAKPROC message.

Rich Edit 1.0:Microsoft Rich Edit 1.0 only passes back ANSI characters to EditWordBreakProc. For rich edit controls, you can alternately use the EM_SETWORDBREAKPROCEX message to replace the default extended word break procedure with an EditWordBreakProcEx callback function. This function provides additional information about the text, such as the character set.

Rich Edit 2.0 and later:Microsoft Rich Edit 2.0 and later only pass back Unicode characters to EditWordBreakProc. Thus, an ANSI application would convert the Rich Edit-supplied Unicode string using WideCharToMultiByte, and then translate the indices appropriately.

Requirements

See also

EM_FINDWORDBREAK

EM_SETWORDBREAKPROC

EM_SETWORDBREAKPROCEX

EditWordBreakProcEx

Other Resources

Reference

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