Hello and first sorry for my very bad english.

i have little knowledge about c and c++ but im trying to learn win32 programming with c++. its little hard and im very new at that. im trying to do very very simple thing: i have an main window, 1 button, 1 edit control. when user clicks button, i wanna show edit controls text with messagebox. there is a problem, i guess i should get text from editcontrol with gettext api, but i have to pass hwnd for that. actually im already have hwnd when i calling createwindowex function, but its not public. so in message switch block i dont have hwnd for edit control. what should i do? findwindow? or maybe public variable? Thanks.