Just in case the title is misleading, I want to know how to add syntax coloring to a rich edit field in my dialog, not turn it on in MSVC++. I have a little program for writing PBASIC for my robot and the local FIRST team, and it would be nice to add syntax coloring for it. I know I worded this vaguely, but I do know that to change the color I need to use SetCharFormat() for something like that with a struct. My question is how to detect and use the colors for words AS THE USER TYPES THEM! For some reason the rich edit box won''t send the NM_CHANGE (?) or NM_UPDATE (?) messages, so I was thinking that maybe OnIdle is the way to go. If someone could supply an idea on how to do this, I think I can handle the rest (I hope... I am new to rich edit controls) --------------------

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You''re going to have to do a customized control with CRichEditCtrl as your base class. I''d go into detail and all that junk but I''m feeling lazy so I''ll just send you over here, where one is already written for you with complete source code available... use it or figure out how to do it from this one. I think his demo is set up to edit VBScript or something like that. Your stuff can''t be much different.

-fel