Standard Editbox, Editable?

Well i dont know if the standard Edit box is what i need.. But like in HTML, you know how you can have a simple username input? I want that in my box, but with the following code you cannot edit your name, nor can you see a boarder around the text edit spot.

Code:

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            hMainEit = CreateWindow("EDIT", NULL,
                WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | ES_LEFT,
                5,
                25,
                100,
                20,
                hwnd, (HMENU) ID_MAIN_EDIT, (HINSTANCE) GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_HINSTANCE), NULL);
            CHAR lpszTrouble[] = "Zeusbwr";
            SendMessage(hMainEit, WM_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM) lpszTrouble);

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Ya.. i should think it would just be a simple style i have to add.. but again, on the Edit Control Styles page on MSDN i see nothing to make it editable.. I can make it Read Only with ES_READONLY, but i want edit.. any ideas on what i am doing wrong?
(Note: i tried a few dif Styles just randomly guessing at what might work, nothing i tried did. I thought maybe the ES_READONLY would toggle edit mode, but it doesent. Instead it adds a colored background (not boarder) around my text, but i still cant edit..)

Here is a link to the editbox type i am using.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...itcontrols.asp

Is this what you are talking about?

Ya, and i have that (well something similar, i dunno what control you are using), but the problem is i cannot edit it.


And i have no clue why, it cant be a style or something, because i had the same one MSDN has (multi lines, ect..) and i still couldent edit.


Big thanks to help :)

Could you post the rest of the code demonstrating the problem? I'd guess there is something wrong in your message loop or window procedure.

Here is the main cpp, resource not in it but its a mega small resource and its compiling, so there cant be a bug with that right? lol.

Anyways, this is a test file and the message loop is a bit different than i normally use, this is a new "project" so i just havent changed it (simply deleting != to > lol). Anyway, here :o

Thanks!


*edit* and the C++ format is just somethin new i picked up, any comments on that are welcome too! (Got from a tutorial)

Code:

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            SendMessage(hMainEit, EM_SETLIMITTEXT, 0, 10);

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You've got your arguments mixed up. See EM_SETLIMITTEXT. The wParam should specify the maximum number of characters and lParam should be zero. You are limiting your edit control to zero characters.

Ya well that was one of my shotty attempts to get it to work. But umm, you mean like this?

Code:

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SendMessage(hMainEit, EM_SETLIMITTEXT, 10, 0);

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because that still doesent work.. And i removed it all together and still i cannot edit my box. I was pretty sure it wasent working before that line, but its still not working..

Any advice? I tried the code i posted, nothing, i tried removing it all together, and nothing..

Any idea?

found the problem, there wasent a TranslateMessage in my message loop, i didnt notice because i was using a template i setup and aparently it was a bit old lol.

Thanks for your help :)