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RichTextBox Scrolling

How to create a "chat" style window

This sample duplicates the functionality of a window such as those in mIRC - where text is added to the bottom of a RichTextBox and is scrolled into view IF the scroll bar is at the bottom, but doesn't move the window when the user has scrolled up. Requires the Professional or Enterprise version of VB5 or VB6.

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Uses the following API functions and messages:

CallWindowProc
GetScrollInfo
LockWindowUpdate
SetWindowLong
- EM_REPLACESEL
- EM_SCROLLCARET
- EM_SETCHARFORMAT
- WM_DESTROY
- WM_PARENTNOTIFY
- WM_SETFOCUS
- WM_VSCROLL

RichTextBox Scrolling

How to create a "chat" style window

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