WebBrowsers, Dialogs, Kicking your computer...

Hey evrbdy. Merry Xmas from Jinx

I was looking for a bit of info that someone could he me out with. I'm building a small web browser with MSVC++ and have an event were a dialog (IDD_WWWDialogDlg) pops up and you enter a web address to goto. I've tried several different combos to try to get the DDX to work out and ended in sorrow when I kicked my computer, knocking it over, feeling somwhat better about it though. This is the basics of what I used:

Code:

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void CJinxBrowserView::OnWwwDialog()
{
  CWWWDialogDlg dlg(this);
  dlg.DoModal();
  if(IDOK //*<- OK button in the WwwDialog*// == TRUE)
  {
      GetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT_URL, m_strWwwUrl); 
      Navigate2(_T(m_strWwwUrl)NULL,NULL);
  }
}

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Can some on spare a little help? Please?

You cannot get text from a dialog after calling .DoModal(); because the window no longer exists.
Instead grab the data from its data member variable...
In your dialog class add a data member named m_strUrl or something. Then map it the edit box.. which I think you already have IDC_EDIT_URL, m_strWwwUrl. Then change your code to the following:

void CJinxBrowserView::OnWwwDialog()
{
CWWWDialogDlg dlg;
if( dlg.DoModal() == IDOK)//*<- OK button in the WwwDialog*// == TRUE)
{
Navigate2(_T(dlg.m_strWwwUrl)NULL,NULL);
}
}

Thanks for the reply zMan, and merry christmas, felize Novidad, Joyful Yom Kippur or which ever applies. I am not at home right now, so I can't compile yet, but thanks in advance b/c I'm sure it will work.

And to all a Good Night!

Hmmm.... Something went awry...I got an error. I used your code zMan but something is not quite right.

The part:

Code:

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Navigate2(_T(dlg.m_strSomeString)NULL,NULL

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(Note: the m_strSomeString is really something else.)
Returns an error, you compile it and see whate happens, will you?

the ecxact error I recieved was

Code:

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error: missing ( before "constant"
error: missing )

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Sooooooo I dunno what to do now.

Navigate2(_T(dlg.m_strSomeString)NULL,NULL);


Hm....maybe?

Navigate2(_T(dlg.m_strSomeString),NULL,NULL);


I don't know what the function does... but common syntax dictates that there has to be a comma there. You can drop the _T() macro. You are passing a CString anyway, it's Unicode.

Navigate2( dlg.m_strSomeString,NULL,NULL);

Hey, just tried it, btw my post was using incorrect syntax, Sorry. But anyhow, I tried the Navigate2() (used to "Navigate to" a certain web page, pending the string passed to it) and came out with no errors! But, theres always a "but", I tried my new function and came out with a debug assertion :( . Should I just give up?