Edit Box

GetWindowText() will get the text from an edit but I think a better function for you would be GetDlgItemText().

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Hello,

I wrote a few tutorials on Edit Boxes on my site, BlueDev, so please feel free to view them under the Win32 section.

Need anymore information please email me at bluedev@bluedev.net

- BlueDev

If you''re using the classwizard (which it sounds like you''re not...), then you need to associate a member variable with your edit box by ctrl+doubleclicking on the edit box in the resource editor. Then it should automatically do the behaviour you''re describing. And you can call UpdateData() to refresh it if you want to use the data someplace else before the dialog closes. That''s if you''re using MFC.

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Under the Dialog box Procedure, look for a case of WM_COMMAND for msg and ID_OK for the loword(wParam). In that code, use:

UINT GetDlgItemText(
  HWND hDlg,       // handle of dialog box
  int nIDDlgItem,  // identifier of control
  LPTSTR lpString, // address of buffer for text
  int nMaxCount    // maximum size of string
);
 

To get the text