Re: Resizing a CEdit control to fill its parent DialogBox???

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:32:49 GMT
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<llUNh.161$5e2.35@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>
Or GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1)->GetSafeHwnd() == NULL;

AliR.

"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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Maybe because GetDlgItem is returning NULL.

A couple of things to point out.
I would use cx, and cy instead of calling GetClientRect.
Whenever posible use CRect instead of RECT. It comes with methods like
Width() and Height().

AliR.

"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@SeeScreen.com> wrote in message
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void CScrollBitmapDlg::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy) {
 CEdit *editbox = (CEdit *) GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1);
 RECT rect;
 this->GetClientRect(&rect);
 int Width = rect.right - rect.left;
 int Height = rect.bottom - rect.top;
//editbox->MoveWindow(&rect);
 editbox->SetWindowPos(NULL, 0, 0, Width, Height, SWP_NOMOVE |
SWP_NOZORDER);
 CDialog::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);
}

Why isn't this code correctly changing the size of the editbox to match
the size of the DialogBox?

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