Thread: Entering only letters in MFC

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    Entering only letters in MFC

    hey, im doing thisprogram, and in this textfield, i just want the user to enter in only letter, and not allow them to enter anything in but letters. i know the command for only entering in numbers is ES_NUMBER, but i havent been able to find out how to do that with letters instead of numbers. thanx

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    This should probably have been posted to the Windows forum.
    Derive a new control from CEdit and call it CAlphaEdit. Overload the OnChar() method and check if characters entered were non-char, if so, block them.
    Code:
    class CAlphaEdit : public CEdit
    {
    protected:
        afx_msg void OnChar(UINT, UINT, UINT);
        DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
    };
    
    BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSsnEdit, CEdit)
        ON_WM_CHAR()
    END_MESSAGE_MAP()
    
    void CAlphaEdit::OnChar(UINT nChar, UINT nRepCount, UINT nFlags)
    {
        if (_istalpha(nChar))
            CEdit::OnChar(nChar, nRepCount, nFlags);
    }
    If you need anything else, or don't understand this example, post back.

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    im havin trouble using it on this one specific text box, i dont know how to do it

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    Are you using MFC? If so, try the solution above, I don't use MFC so I can't vouch for it.

    If you are using the raw API, subclass the edit box and intercept each WM_CHAR message, if it contained a character I wanted, I'd forward the message to the edit box, if not, dump it.

    If you don't know how to do that, post again.
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