Re: CEdit numbers

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:51 -0800
Message-ID:
<OeM2RMwdKHA.5156@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
I would just use SetWindowText() to do it. Much easier in the long run:

int a = 23;
CString cs;
cs.Format(_T("%d"),a);
m_eEdit1.SetWindowText(cs);

You could also assign a value variable to the control, using the wizards,
and use UpdateData() to get or set the values in all of the controls on your
dialog. That works well for basic dialogs.

Tom

"mad" <mad@vrtainment.de> wrote in message
news:50a35b78-48a7-444e-92b5-c84e531d4b4c@p19g2000vbq.googlegroups.com...

Hello,

I have a dialog-based app and I am having problems with getting
numbers displayed correctly.
Snippets of the code are the following:
// CCEditDlg dialog
class CCEditDlg : public CDialog
{
// Construction
public:
CCEditDlg(CWnd* pParent = NULL); // standard constructor

//CEdit
CEdit m_eEdit1;

// Dialog Data
enum { IDD = IDD_CEDIT_DIALOG };

protected:
virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX); // DDX/DDV support

...
};

... The class itself:
...
void CCEditDlg::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)
{
CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX);
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_EDIT1, m_eEdit1);
}

BOOL CCEditDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
CDialog::OnInitDialog();

               ...

SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE); // Set big icon
SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE); // Set small icon

int a = 23;
m_eEdit1.SetDlgItemInt(IDC_EDIT1, a);

return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
}

I am getting m_eEdit1 not displayed at all. It is still empty. I have
VS 2008.
The edit control is configured as "Number" (TRUE).
What am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Hartwig

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