Re: OnInitDialog to populate ComboBox wont work due to missing hwnd ?!

From:
"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:20:43 -0400
Message-ID:
<55094993-8248-43E7-9E90-7F85E1AC47B3@microsoft.com>
After you have called Create, all the child controls have been cretaed. I
still dont see what this has to do with OnInitDialog. What are you doing in
that function and also how do you know its not being called correctly. Put a
break in that method and see if its getting called. pPage should have a
valid m_hWnd after you have successfully called Create on it.

---
Ajay

".rhavin grobert" <clqrq@yahoo.de> wrote in message
news:1189524311.366828.149190@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

I always thought that OnInitDialog will be called *after* the dialog-
elements were created,
but in this function, calling create leads to OnInitDialog without
setting HWNDs correctly.
pTab->pPage->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) sets up all correctly for the first
time, so OnInitDialog should be called *after*, shouldnt it?. What do
i mess up?

i do the following in a class derived from CTabCtrl:

void CQTabCtrl::PageLoad(int nIndex) {
RECT rc;
GetClientRect(&rc);
AdjustRect(false, &rc);

//pTab is a struct with a pointer to a CWnd
 //derived class and some other data...
SQTabTab* pTab = GetTab(nIndex);

if (pTab == 0) return;
if (pTab->pPage->GetSafeHwnd() == 0) {
pTab->pPage->SetParent(this);
// QGetRscID() returns the correct Resource-ID...
// Create calls OnInitDialog, but the HWNDs are still 0...
pTab->pPage->Create(pTab->pPage->QGetRscID(),this);
}
pTab->pPage->ModifyStyle(WS_CAPTION|WS_DISABLED,WS_CLIPCHILDREN|
WS_CHILD,1);
pTab->pPage->MoveWindow(&rc,true);
pTab->pPage->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
}

thx, .rhavin;)

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