Re: initializing a combobox
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:02:54 -0500, Dave Cullen <nospam@mail.com> wrote:
I have a dialog with a combobox and I'm having trouble initializing it
with a list of items. Any reference to the combobox in InitDialog brings
up an access violation, ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd))
// within the OnInitDialog method:
CDialog::OnInitDialog();
CComboBox *pComboBox = (CComboBox *)GetDlgItem(IDC_COMBOBOX1);
pComboBox->InitStorage(100,10); // this will fail ASSERT
pComboBox->AddString("12345"); // so will this
What am I doing wrong please?
It sounds like you don't have a control with that ID. Note that it's
preferred to bind controls to MFC objects that are dialog member variables.
If you don't do this, and the control exists, GetDlgItem will return a
pointer to a temporary CWnd, which is not a CComboBox, and casting this
pointer to CComboBox* is bogus. See these recent messages for more on this:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/msg/6be0a151d95f0402
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/msg/88d457e43d96fb93
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