Re: Initializing an list box in a dialog

How can I populate a CListBox when I initially display it in a dialog?

I have a dialog box that contains a list box. The dialog box (created
with the resource editor) has an associated CDialog class called
CListDialog, and the list box has a CListBox class called mListBox.

I want to display the dialog box modally when a menu item Dialog/Open
is selected. But I want the list box to be popukated with some
initial strings. So what I thought I could do was something similar
to what I would do with other dialog variables, and I did this:

void CListBoxDialogView::OnDialogOpen()
{
    CListDialog dialog;
    dialog.mListBox.AddString("foo");
    dialog.DoModal();

}

This blows up with a debug assertion failure on the AddString call.
(If I take out the AddString line, the empty list box displays
properly.

Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong here? This seems like it
should be straightforward but I'm apparently missing something.
What's the proper way to do this?

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