how can I update the value in an edit box without using UpdataData(FALSE)

[Danielle Harvey]

I have a dialog box which calls another dialog box. When the user changes values in the second dialog box, I want changes to be made to the first dialog box automatically. But when I use UpdateData(FALSE) in the OnOk() for the second dialog box, this only updates the values in the second dialog box and never the first.

How can I update the values in the first dialog box from the second dialog box OnOk() function without using UpdateData(FALSE)?

Any response any one can give me will be greatly appreciated.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

There are different ways to handle this - the easiest (but not the better method) is to use SetWindowText() and enter the values directly into the edit controls - but this won't update the variables associated with the controls. The better method would be to create a public member function of the second dialog and have that call UpdateData(FALSE) -- call this public member function from the first dialog . You could also have a user defined message (WM_USER+xxxx) which calls this function, then in the first dialog you could send the user message to the second dialog.

Hope this helps.

Rail

Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
railro@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~railro/

i dont know if this is what you want...

add a member var. to your first (parent) dialog of your second (child) dialog, e.g.

CParentDlg : public CDialog
{
public:
CChildDlg m_dlgChild;
etc.

};

you can then treat its member variables as they were in the parent itself, e.g. DoModal on parent...

CParentDlg dlg;
dlg.m_var1 = <init a parent var.>
dlg.m_dlgChild.m_var1 = <init a child var.>
etc.

dlg.DoModal();

just treat m_dlgChild.m_varX as if they were actual member variables in the parent dialog.

[Samantha]

You can use the function
SetDlgItemText( int nID, LPCTSTR lpszString );

nID : Identifies the control whose text is to be set.
lpszString : Points to a CString object or null-terminated string that contains the text to be copied to the control.

Hope this helps