Find text in an edit control window

How do I use the Find dialog box to find text in an edit control window? I've got it to show the Find box (using FindText() ), and when I press Find Next I can make it do something. How do I actually make it find the text though? I've tried SendMessage(hEdit,EM_FINDTEXT,0,&ft) but that doesnt seem to do anything. Thanks for the help.

Shane Blazek

Do you want to find and replace text (ie text editor) or just get what the user has typed into an edit control?


The find common dialog just gets what the user wants you to find (and replace).
You must then do the work.

Display the dlg.
Get the search strings from the structure returned.
Get the edit text with GetDlgItemText() (or similar)

Now do the required operations (find and replace ect) with the string functions.