Re: Can I new a CDialog, then call DoModal?
GT wrote:
I have a dialog dlgMetricsClassifierNew derived from CDialog. In my code
(elsewhere) I used to just do this:
dlgMetricsClassifierNew dialog;
if (dialog.DoModal() == IDOK)
{
// do my stuff
}
I have changed the way some other parts of the code work and now after the
dialog closes with an OK press, I need to interrogate the dialog to get a
couple of strings. However, when I interrogate the dialog in the above code,
all values are all NULL, so I presume the OnOK press destroys the dialog and
loses all values? So I changed my code to use New and Create like this:
dlgMetricsClassifierNew *dialog = new dlgMetricsClassifierNew();
dialog->Create(IDD_METRICS_CLASSIFIERNEW);
The problem comes after this when I try to call DoModal after these lines.
Is it possible to create a dialog and do DoModal in this fashion?
GT:
When you "interrogate" a dialog after a DoModal() call, you must not try
to access its controls because they are gone. The dialog must copy its
control values into member variables before closing (perhaps by using
UpdateData()).
You either use DoModal() (modal dialog) or Create() (modeless dialog),
not both; here you want a modal dialog. There is no need to use "new"
here (or almost anywhere, come to that).
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