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4/8/2010

This message sets the widths of the left and right margins for an edit control. The message redraws the control to reflect the new margins.

Syntax 

EM_SETMARGINS 

wParam = (WPARAM) 
fwMargin;

lParam = (LPARAM)MAKELONG(
wLeft, 
wRight);

Parameters

fwMargin

Specifies the margins to set. The following table shows the possible values, which you can combine.

Value Description

EC_LEFTMARGIN

Sets the left margin.

EC_RIGHTMARGIN

Sets the right margin.
wLeft

Value of the low-order word of lParam. Specifies the width of the left margin, in pixels. This value is ignored if fwMargindoes not include EC_LEFTMARGIN.

wRight

Value of the high-order word of lParam. Specifies the width of the right margin, in pixels. This value is ignored if fwMargindoes not include EC_RIGHTMARGIN.

Return Value

None.

Requirements

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

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