Determines the selection type in this CRichEditCtrl object.
WORD GetSelectionType( ) const;
Return Value
Flags indicating the contents of the current selection. A combination of the following flags:
SEL_EMPTY Indicates that there is no current selection.
SEL_TEXT Indicates that the current selection contains text.
SEL_OBJECT Indicates that the current selection contains at least one OLE item.
SEL_MULTICHAR Indicates that the current selection contains more than one character of text.
SEL_MULTIOBJECT Indicates that the current selection contains more than one OLE object.
Remarks
For more information, see EM_SELECTIONTYPE in the Windows SDK.
Example
// Dump the selection text only if it contains at least one text character.
if (m_myRichEditCtrl.GetSelectionType() & (SEL_TEXT | SEL_MULTICHAR))
{
CString strText = m_myRichEditCtrl.GetSelText();
TRACE(_T("selection text is '%s'.\r\n"), strText);
}
Requirements
Header: afxcmn.h