within the selection: although the text ist deselected, querying the control still returns the values of the old selection, which is NOT OK!

I see that too, but it doesn't seem to strange to me, since your mouse handler (callback) is being called before the selection change is registered, before the selection range is updated, before the selchange event is generated

You should be binding to a "SelChange" event , but you can't
Rich Edit (Windows)
EN_SELCHANGE notification code (Windows)
I would use Wx

In reply to Re: Win32::GUI::Richedit strange results for deselecting a selection (events) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Win32::GUI::Richedit strange results for deselecting a selection by tomsell

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