I am trying to use the Rich Edit control in a composite control but I keep receiving an error when I try to run it. I also noticed I get the same problem when using the ip address control. Most other controls seem to work fine. Any help would be great.

Thanks!
Kurt

Has it ever occured to you that it may be useful for us to actually see the error message you get? You want your problem solved, don't you?
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With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken

  I am trying to use the Rich Edit control in a composite control but I keep receiving an error when I try to run it. I also noticed I get the same problem when using the ip address control. Most other controls seem to work fine. Any help would be great.

  Thanks!
  Kurt

It's not really giving me an error message. I just get an assertion message at line 842 of atlctl.h. Basically saying CreateControlWindow failed.

Kurt

  Has it ever occured to you that it may be useful for us to actually see the error message you get? You want your problem solved, don't you?
  --
  With best wishes,
      Igor Tandetnik

  "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken

    I am trying to use the Rich Edit control in a composite control but I keep receiving an error when I try to run it. I also noticed I get the same problem when using the ip address control. Most other controls seem to work fine. Any help would be great.

    Thanks!
    Kurt

you have to call some Initialize method for RichEdit Control.  AfxInitRichEdit

Amrik

  It's not really giving me an error message. I just get an assertion message at line 842 of atlctl.h. Basically saying CreateControlWindow failed.

  Kurt

    Has it ever occured to you that it may be useful for us to actually see the error message you get? You want your problem solved, don't you?
    --
    With best wishes,
        Igor Tandetnik

    "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken

      I am trying to use the Rich Edit control in a composite control but I keep receiving an error when I try to run it. I also noticed I get the same problem when using the ip address control. Most other controls seem to work fine. Any help would be great.

      Thanks!
      Kurt

The riched32.dll needed to be loaded.  

The resolution is to dynamically load it in the control's constructor.  

class ATL_NO_VTABLE CRichAtlCtrl :  ...
{ ...  
    HINSTANCE m_hREInstance;    
    CRichAtlCtrl()      
    {          
        m_hREInstance = LoadLibrary("RICHED32.DLL");
        m_bWindowOnly = TRUE;          
        CalcExtent(m_sizeExtent);      
    }  

    ~CRichAtlCtrl()    
    {          
        FreeLibrary(m_hREInstance);    
    }

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
yhhuang
VS.NET, Visual C++
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You need InitCommonControlsEx for IP Address control. For RichEdit, you need to manually call LoadLibrary on Riched32.dll (RichEdit 1.0) or Riched20.dll (RichEdit 2.0 and 3.0)
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With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken

  It's not really giving me an error message. I just get an assertion message at line 842 of atlctl.h. Basically saying CreateControlWindow failed.

  Kurt

    Has it ever occured to you that it may be useful for us to actually see the error message you get? You want your problem solved, don't you?
    --
    With best wishes,
        Igor Tandetnik

    "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken

      I am trying to use the Rich Edit control in a composite control but I keep receiving an error when I try to run it. I also noticed I get the same problem when using the ip address control. Most other controls seem to work fine. Any help would be great.

      Thanks!
      Kurt