Dialog based applications.

[Emad Shawakfa]

Hello,
I am just a new member of this group and realy don't know if my question was asked before or not. I am a new VC++ programmer and currently working on implementing a dialog based application that will be intended to be used by novice users in a bilingual environment using VC++5.0 with the ability to compile it also in VC++6.0 as well. However, I am facing few problems and hope to find answers to them on this discussion group; some of those problems are:
1) Is it possible to change the text alignment and the orientation of the reading of text in an Edit box dynamically during the execution of the program instead of changing it in the resource file?
2) If you make an edit box active and the cursor starts blinking in that box, if you clear all boxes in order to refresh the whole session, is it possible to have the cursor go back to the first Edit box automatically and have that box ready for input?
3) If I am using a disabled Edit box for my output, although I am using the property of multiline for that Edit box I've tried adding to the control variable the \n for the new line but the output did not spread on multiline unless the output is more than the size of the box, is it possible to have the output spread on a multi-line?

Thanks, and hope to find my solution here.

Regards,
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You can make your Window( edit box) active by getting pointer to this window(GetDlgItem()) and calling SetActiveWindow() on this pointer.
In multiline edit control use sequence "\r\n" to separate lines (i.e.,SetWindowText("first\r\nsecond\r\nthird");