Upside Down Scrolling ...

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I have read more than 65% of the topics/posts, on scrolling, and views, ect. I could not find my answer ....

I did attach a picture to explain to you what type of scrolling I would like to have ... eg.

Instead of the normal RichEditCtrl, with the text starting at the top, I'd rather have the text start at the bottom ...

Now I've thought of doing this as follows ...

Insert a few '\n' characters, and keep on adding these characters to the beginning of the text untill the whole RichEditCtrl's text buffer is filled. Now this can be done by calculating the free space, with the font height, and then we now actually know how many "lines" are visible, at the current stage. Also we need to take into account that the actual RichEditCtrl, can be resized, but still keep in mind, the text needs to be displayed at the bottom.

This does not matter if the control resizes, or not. So it will start "filling" the RichEditCtrl with text, from the bottom upwards.

As soon as the whole RichEditCtrl's text buffer is full (by saying "text buffer" I mean the client area, the white back ground above text line 1), as soon as the text buffer portion is full, it does not matter, because new text will be added to the end, and be scrolled upwards ...

How would I go about doing such a thing, anyone know links to posts, or some links to help me resolve this problem ???, or any answers maybe ???

Thanx in advance ...

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