Thread: Disabling controls on MFC

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    Disabling controls on MFC

    in my program that imworking onusing the MFC with C++, i have a problem. basically what my teacher wants is when you press a certain button, certain textfields should become disabled and you should not be allowed to enter anything in them, but i dont know what control to use for that. please help, thank you.

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    Look at EnableWindow()

    Example:

    GetDlgItem( IDC_EDIT_1 )->EnableWindow(FALSE);

    GetDlgItem( IDC_EDIT_1 )->EnableWindow(TRUE);

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    There should aslo be a member of CEdit for SetReadOnly...

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