Change dialog caption

[mjm461]

I want to change the dialog text while as the new dialog is being created. I tried SetWindowText("yada"). Doesnt seem to work. How can I do this? And do I do it somwhere like OnInitDialog()?

[kirants]

yeah. SetWindowText in OnInitDialog should work.

[mjm461]

Do I need to call something to refresh the window then? Nothing happens. Also... I actually inherit from CPropertyPage and not CDialog, Because I am using it as a tab.

[kirants]

Ok. Let me get this right ?

You are using a PropertyPage within a property sheet.
Do you want to change the text of the Sheet or do you want to to change the text of the tab ?

For e.g.
------------------------------------------------
Property Sheet title
------------------------------------------------


|-------------|--------------|
|Pagetitle1| Pagetitle2 |
|-------------|--------------|

[mjm461]

I would like the change the name of the tab... but the tab name will not be derminted until runtime.

[kirants]

Note that in a propertysheet, he tabs shown for each page is a tab control window. So you would have to manipulate the tab control's items. That is the reason why , even if SetWindowText won't fail, it has no effect on the appearance on the tabs.

What you need to do is something like this. From MSDN sample:

When you want to change the text, say in OnInitDialog()...( you could do it any time after the property page is created )

TCITEM tcItem;
CString pszString = "Test page title";

CPropertySheet* pSheet = (CPropertySheet*)GetParent();
ASSERT_VALID(pSheet);

int nPageIndex = GetPageIndex(this);
// Get the page text.
tcItem.mask = TCIF_TEXT;
pSheet->GetTabControl()->GetItem(nPageIndex, &tcItem);

// Set the new text for the item.
tcItem.pszText = pszString.GetBuffer(256);

// Set the item in the tab control.
pSheet->GetTabControl()->SetItem(nPageIndex, &tcItem);

[mjm461]

I changed int nPageIndex = GetPageIndex(this); to int nPageIndex = pSheet->GetPageIndex(this); and it worked beautifully. Thanks a lot.

[kirants]

Originally posted by mjm461
I changed int nPageIndex = GetPageIndex(this); to int nPageIndex = pSheet->GetPageIndex(this);

Yeah. My bad

[GCDEF]

Originally posted by mjm461
I would like the change the name of the tab... but the tab name will not be derminted until runtime.

Why didn't you ask this in the first place?