Thread: changing static text

Hi,

I'm a newbie to win32 c and I'm still getting to used to a lot of things. I was wondering whether there is a way to change the contents of static text controls during runtime on a DialogBox loaded from the resources rather than using a window class etc.

I tried thinking that maybe you use SetWindowText or SetDlgItemText but i don't know how to find out the hwnd of the static text and it doesn't seem to have an indentifier like IDOK or whatever. I know you can use SetWindowText if you make the static text using CreateWindow as it returns the hwnd of it but i don't know how to change ones which have been drawn on the dialog at design time.

I used to use vb which is probably why I'm approaching it in this way, if I'm totally looking in the wrong direction then please correct me!

Thanks,

Daniel Briley

Open up your resource script, either using a GUI editor if you have one, or in a text editor if you don't. Find the static control you wish to modify the text of and give it an id which you should give a numeric value (ie #define it) in your resource header.

Now that the static control has a unique id you can use GetDlgItem to get the handle of the control for use with SetWindowText or just use SetDlgItemText.

eg in resource header:

Code:

#define IDC_MY_STATIC_CNTRL 500

and then in the resource script:

Code:

LTEXT "original static cntrl text", IDC_MY_STATIC_CNTRL, 0, 0, 200, 15

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that, works exactly as i needed it too :-D

greatly appreciated