How to make an Editbox display a string

[Markusl]

I want an Editbox to display a string. And as soon as I change the string, I want the editbox to update it. The second part with the update isn't necessary.

Can anyone help me with this please?

[Bob Clarke]

Since you don't mention your programming environment, I'll assume it is VC5 or VC6.

CWnd::SetWindowText() can be used to set the contents of the edit box.

For the updating, use the Class Wizard's Message Map to map the EN_CHANGE notification message. Whenever the contents of the edit box changes, this method will be called. Inside this method, put code to update your string variable.

Example:

// in your initialization code
CString cSample("This is edit box text");
m_editBox.SetWindowText( cSample );

CSample::OnChangeEdit1()
{
cSample = m_editBox.GetWindowText();
}

[Markusl]

Actully I use VC 4, but I hope it won't make much of a difference.