Enter a Escape character in edit control.

swinghead · 02-18-2005, 05:23 AM

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how i could enter a escape character in an edit control ( say notepad) or editor itself.

If there is no direct keystrokes (or combination of keystroke) there should be a way i can save the escape characters in some binary file or editor and then open it through notepad.

Please help...

Cheers,
SwingHead

Iron_Cross · 02-19-2005, 11:18 AM

You can't just type '\n' or '\t' or whatever character you're wanting to input?
If that's not what you mean, then you need to explain a little better

gab00n · 02-19-2005, 03:02 PM

\n = new line and \t = tab

I am trying to figure out what you are up to, could you please explain the programs purpose, then it will be easier for us to help you out.

bla!! · 02-19-2005, 06:08 PM

I'm a bit confused also, but the ASCII character for Escape is 27

swinghead · 02-22-2005, 08:36 AM

Thanks guys for this consideration.
What my scenario is:

Using my program i need to exactly count the number of characters input in any edit control or any where i could enter text. So be it visible characters like the alphabets and numbers or be it a escape character like (CR,LF,space or bell etc..) what my program intends to do is count each visible cahracters and non visible like the "\n" (CR) or a "\t" tab or any such key strokes that is invisible but produced as a result of a key stroke.

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