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How does PFE manage to allow more than 32K of text to be edited in an edit control?

April 26, 2017CONTROL edit edited manage pfe text

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How does PFE manage to allow more than 32K of text to be edited in an edit control?

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PFE doesn’t, in fact, use standard edit controls to show text. The windows you see are ordinary MDI child windows, and the text is drawn explicitly by PFE as required. Internally, a complicated memory management system keeps track of where each line of each file is stored.