Re: SetWindowText
Al wrote:
opps again.
What am I doing wrong. I have a dialog class aDlg which I would like to
change the caption to. This is what I have tried.
CString s = "My Window";
LPCTSTR ps = s;
aDlg.SetWindowText(ps);
When it gets to this line of code it causes a "Debug Assertion Failed". What
am doing wrong here and is this the correct method of changing the caption on
a dialog window?
Thanks!
First, you can learn a lot more about assertions if you use the debugger
to look at the line of code and the function that asserted. (Install
the MFC source code if you haven't already.)
At a guess, the asserting line probably says something like
(ASSERT m_hWnd != NULL);
This means your dialog object has not yet created the actual dialog.
You can't change the title of something that doesn't exist yet! If you
put your code inside OnInitDialog it should work. But it you put it
before aDlg.DoModal it can't work because the actual dialog hasn't been
created at that point.
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