INFO: Default Edit Control Entry Validation Done by Windows

ID: Q74266

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.0, 3.1

Under the Microsoft Windows graphical environment, multiline and single-line edit controls do not accept characters with virtual key code values less than 0x20. The two exceptions are the TAB and ENTER keys; users can enter these characters only in a multiline edit control.

If an application creates an edit control with the ES_LOWERCASE or ES_UPPERCASE style, text entry is converted into the specified case.

If an application creates an edit control with the ES_OEMCONVERT style, the text is converted from the ANSI character set to the OEM character set and then back to ANSI for display in the control.

Additional query words: WIN16SDK


Keywords          : kbCtrl kbEditCtrl kbNTOS kbGrpUser kbWinOS 
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Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: March 7, 1999