Windows Controls To Hold Numbers

[sixstring396]

Hey everyone. I have a beginner question. I have recently started writing programs with the winapi and its controls. My question is which control is the best to use for storing numerical data. I am writing a small game and need to know what control to use to store player data and display the data in the program. It should not be a control editable by the user but be able to display game data. Thanks.

[ovidiucucu]

The most appropriate for your purpose are Static controls.
Alternatively, you can use Edit controls with ES_READONLY style set.
To set and get numeric data, you can call SetDlgItemInt and GetDlgItemInt, respectively.

[Igor Vartanov]

what control to use to store player data and display the data in the program

It's important to understand that the mentioned static and edit controls' primary intention is to display numbers, but not store ones. To store data of any kind program variables should be used in the most of the cases.