Applies to
RichTextEdit controls
Description
The SelectedTextLength property specifies the length of text you want to highlight in a selected text string.
Usage
Typically you use this property to obtain the length of a misspelled word that is flagged after passing the selected text string to a supported ActiveX spell checking control.
See the section called “Implementing Rich Text” in Application Techniques for more information about spell checking text in RichTextEdit controls.
In a painter
The SelectedTextLength property cannot be set in a design-time painter.
In scripts
The SelectedTextLength property takes a long value. The following code in a MixedCaseWord or ReplaceWord event for the Wintertree Software WSpell ActiveX control causes a word flagged by the control to be highlighted for its entire length, beginning with the word's offset position in the text string that you are spell checking:
string strword strword = wspell.object.MisspelledWord rte_1.SelectedStartPos = wspell.object.WordOffset rte_1.SelectedTextLength = Len(strword)
