Using a button to clear a list box!

Hi,

Hope someone can help me, ive read all the faqs about the clear function. Ive gone with the windows option;

#include <windows.h>



void clrscr()

{

COORD coordScreen = { 0, 0 };

DWORD cCharsWritten;

CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;

DWORD dwConSize;

HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);



GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);

dwConSize = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;

FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hConsole, TEXT(' '), dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);

GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);

FillConsoleOutputAttribute(hConsole, csbi.wAttributes, dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);

SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coordScreen);

}

ive placed this at the top of my prog.
Next i want to have a "clear" button (IDC_CLEAR), which ive made, to clear a list box, called IDC_EVENTLOG.

Heres the code so far, just not sure how to link the pressing of the button to the clear function.


else if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDC_CLEAR)
{
if(MessageBoxW(hDlg, L"Are you sure you want to Clear the Event Log ?", L"Warning", MB_YESNO) == IDYES)
{
if(gStarted == TRUE)
{

//Call clear function here
gStarted = FALSE; clrscr(IDC_EVENTLOG); //HELP!!? NOT SURE????
//exit(0);
}
//SetEvent(ghExit);
//EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
}

//return TRUE;
}


Sorry if this is an obvious question, but im fairly new at this!

Many Thanks for ANY help,



p

Just send a LB_RESETCONTENT message to the listbox to clear it.

This is from MSDN :

An application sends an LB_RESETCONTENT to remove all items from a list box.

LB_RESETCONTENT
wParam = 0; // not used; must be zero
lParam = 0; // not used; must be zero

Parameters
This message has no parameters.

Return Values
This message does not return a value.

so how do i actually use that?

Not too sure. :-(

thanks again

LONG SendDlgItemMessage(
HWND hDlg, // handle of dialog box
int nIDDlgItem, // identifier of control
UINT Msg, // message to send
WPARAM wParam, // first message parameter
LPARAM lParam // second message parameter
);

So you'd have to do something like this,

Code:

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SendDlgItemMessage(hDlg,ID_LISTBOX,LB_RESETCONTENT,0,0);

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Remember that hDlg is the parent window, and ID_LISTBOX is the id of the listbox.

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Originally posted by Troll_King
What is this drool? Just use C# and the BCL. Even VB would be better.

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Originally posted by golfinguy4
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Hi,

Managed to get it to work using the following code,


else if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDC_CLEAR)
{
if(MessageBoxW(hDlg, L"Are you sure you want to Clear the Event Log ?", L"Warning", MB_YESNO) == IDYES)
{
if(gStarted == TRUE)
{

//Send message to remove contents of list box
gStarted = FALSE;
SendDlgItemMessage (hDlg, IDC_EVENTLOG, LB_RESETCONTENT, 0, 0);
}

}
return TRUE;

}

However once running it will clear the list box, but when i try to clear it again by pressing the button (IDC_CLEAR) it manages to prompts the message "are you sure" again but doesnt clear the list box again when yes is selected!??

Please help as this is really bugging me,

Sorry for interupting the pantie conversation ;-)


cheers,

>> However once running it will clear the list box, but when i try to clear it again by pressing the button (IDC_CLEAR) it manages to prompts the message "are you sure" again but doesnt clear the list box again when yes is selected!??

Well, is gStarted true or false?

what is the gStarted variable for?

Code:

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else if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDC_CLEAR)
{
    if(MessageBoxW(hDlg, L"Are you sure you want to Clear the Event Log ?", L"Warning", MB_YESNO) == IDYES)
    {
        //Send message to remove contents of list box
        SendDlgItemMessage (hDlg, IDC_EVENTLOG, LB_RESETCONTENT, 0, 0);
    }
    return TRUE; // what is this for?
}

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