Unable to clear RICHEDIT

[RyanEK]

Hi All,

I have a TRichedit and i'm loading an RTF file via the loadfromfile command. However the rtf file has the following tags:

lang1033\protect\f0\fs20

It looks like this protect tag, is making the Richedit control read-only!. Hence, I can't delete or clear the text. Does anyone know how these protect tags are being created? I think the richedit doc. was created by copying text from a Word or Email document.

thanks
Ryan

 

[Snake26]

ar u shure the read only property is marked false;
try richedit1.lines.loadfromfile();
richedit1.readonly := false;

 

[RyanEK]

Nope, the readonly attribute it definitly off. I'm thinking the text was copied from a secure email or something... anyone have any idea?

 

[TimSNL]

After you have loaded the rich text into the control try:

richedit1.SelStart := 0;
richedit1.SelectAll;
richedit1.SelAttributes.Protected := false;

Hope this may help.