Re: creating button in dialog box
William Dauchy wrote:
Hello,
I have created a dialog box with the IDE.
I want to know if it's possible to dynamically add anoter window (a
Cbutton for example) ?
I have tried :
afx_msg int MyWindow::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
if (CWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1) return -1;
CButton bt1;
bt1.Create(_T("My button"), WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|BS_PUSHBUTTON,
CRect(5,5,50,30), this->GetActiveWindow(), 1);
bt1.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
return 0;
}
William:
First of all, I'm not sure that your OnCreate() function will be called for a
dialog. Did you check this by inserting a break point? The normal place to add
controls to a dialog is in the WM_INITDIALOG handler OnInitDialog().
Second, your code cannot possibly work, because bt1 is a local variable which
goes out of scope. You should make it a member variable of the dialog class.
Also, creating controls using fixed pixel coordinates will not work well,
because dialogs are created using dialog units which are system-dependent.
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