Edit Box Input

Hi guys, I know how to draw and position edit boxes in my programs, but I can't seem to get the to accept input can someone help me out and also I don't know how to take the input in and store it in the program (for obvious reasons)

Thanks in advance for the help :)

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ :rolleyes:

Always check out MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms672060.aspx

The default behavior of an editbox, I believe, when you press Enter, is to press the first button on the same window. If you want it to do something different, consider subclassing it.

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The default behavior of an editbox, I believe, when you press Enter, is to press the first button on the same window.

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That's not the case. Nurfina, use SetWindowLong() to subclass it.

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Originally Posted by Queatrix

That's not the case. Nurfina, use SetWindowLong() to subclass it.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102589

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If a dialog box or one of its controls currently has the input focus, then pressing the ENTER key causes Windows to send a WM_COMMAND message with the idItem (wParam) parameter set to the ID of the default command button. If the dialog box does not have a default command button, then the idItem parameter is set to IDOK by default.

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Bold addition mine. The above is what I was referring to.

Cool thanks guys . . . having some issues just now with my edit box it's not showing, but thanks for the help on how to get input from it

Hi again guys, sorry to be a pain, but still having some issues, my edit boxes wont actually let me type into them, it doesn't accept key presses, can anyone help me out, and also I would like to know how to change the background colour and text colour if it's not too much trouble

Thanks in advance :)

Are you using a resource file to create your dialog box and editcontrol?

Show us some code? :)

No I am doing it all through the CreateWindowEx function my code :

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void Setup_Edit (Window* window, Edit & edit, char const * caption, int x, int y, int width, int height, int ID, DWORD exStyle)
{
        edit._style = WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE;
        edit._caption = caption;
        edit._exStyle = exStyle;
        edit._x = x;                                                                                                                // horizontal position of Button
        edit._y = y;                                                                                                                // vertical position od Button
        edit._width = width;                                                                                                // Button width
        edit._height = height;                                                                                                // Button height
        edit._hWndParent = window->hWnd;                                                                        // handle to parent or owner Button
        edit._data = 0;                                                                                                                // pointer to Button-creation data
        edit._ID = ID;

        Create_Edit(window, edit);
}

HWND Create_Edit (Window* window, Edit & edit)
{
        edit.hwnd = ::CreateWindowEx (
                edit._exStyle,
                "EDIT",
                edit._caption,
                edit._style,
                edit._x,
                edit._y,
                edit._width,
                edit._height,
                edit._hWndParent,
                (HMENU) edit._ID,
                window->init.application->hInstance,
                edit._data);

        if (edit.hwnd == 0)
                TerminateApplication(window);

        return edit.hwnd;
}

. . .

Setup_Edit(m_window, menu->login.UserName, "User Name", ((m_window->init.width / 2) + 3), 200, 150, 50, IDC_LUSERNAME, 0);

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Looks like that

I don't see anything obviously wrong, although your method of creating a simple edit box seems rather complicated.....

>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102589
Yeah, guess so.