Date: 2013jun11 Platform: Win32 OS: Windows Q. Why isn't my multiline edit control working? A. You probably forgot the ES_WANTRETURN option. It indicates that the control should capture carriage returns (CRs). It does *not* set if the control should return a result or something like that. This works:

EDITTEXT IDC_THE_TEXT,130,58,299,68,ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_WANTRETURN