Applies to
RichTextEdit controls
Description
The SelectedStartPos property specifies the starting position in a selected text string.
Usage
Typically, you use the SelectedStartPos property to set the starting position of a selected text string to the first letter of a word that is flagged by a supported ActiveX spell checking control.
See Implementing Rich Text in Application Techniques for more information about spell checking text in RichTextEdit controls.
In a painter
The SelectedStartPos property cannot be set in a design-time painter.
In scripts
The SelectedStartPos property takes a long value.
The following code in a ReplaceWord event for the Wintertree Software WSpell ActiveX control sets the starting position in the text string that is being spell checked to the offset position of a misspelled word. After setting the starting position, the SelectedTextLength setting causes the entire misspelled word to be highlighted, and the ReplaceText call replaces it with a word that the user selects in a WSpell dialog box.
string str str = wspell.object.MisspelledWord rte_1.SelectedStartPos = wspell.object.WordOffset rte_1.SelectedTextLength = Len(str) rte_1.ReplaceText(wspell.object.ReplacementWord)
