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4/8/2010

This message retrieves the starting and ending character positions of the current selection in an edit control.

Syntax 

EM_GETSEL 

wParam = (WPARAM)(LPDWORD) 
lpdwStart;

lParam = (WPARAM)(LPDWORD) 
lpdwEnd;

Parameters

lpdwStart

Long pointer to a 32-bit value that receives the starting position of the selection. This parameter can be NULL.

lpdwEnd

Long pointer to a 32-bit value that receives the position of the first nonselected character after the end of the selection. This parameter can be NULL.

Return Value

The return value is a zero-based 32-bit value with the starting position of the selection in the low-order word and the position of the first character after the last selected character in the high-order word. If either of these values exceeds 65,535, the return value is –1.

Requirements

Header windows.h
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also