Displaying strings in text boxes

Hi everyone,

I am trying to use a Win32 textbox (EDITTEXT) to display certain words when you press certain buttons. I know how to use them to display numerical outputs, but I'm not sure how to display strings with them. I've given it a go anyhow, and I have the following:

Code:

case IDC_HELLOBUTTON:                       //Press this button to write 'Hello'.
char strHi[100];                                   //A char to store the string contents.
std::string outputstring;                        //A string to store 'Hello'.
outputstring += "Hello";                         //Adding 'Hello' to the string.
sprintf_s(strHi,"%0.0f",outputstring);       //Putting the string in the char array.
SetDlgItemText(hwnd, IDC_OUTPUT, strHi);     //Writing the char's contents in the box.

It isn't working at the moment (it just puts '0' in the box) so I was wondering if anyone could offer some tips?

Thanks!

So, do you know anything about what printf is? Maybe you should read the manual.

OK, I understand a bit more now - but I still don't get what I would do to allow it to write strings to the text box. Could you point me in the right direction with an example please?

Thanks.

Hint : What does %0.0f mean in the sprintf?

It's the number of decimal places that the answer is written to? I thought it may be something to do with the flag (I switched it to %s and the box said (null) instead of zero).

Do you expect a string to have "decimal places"?

And you need to print outputstring.c_str() in your sprintf call.