Accessing my main window control...

[Luc B.]

Hello to all !!!

I'm fairly new to MFC programming and I was wondering how can I reference my main window controls when i'm within a modal dialog box ???

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Happy coding =:-)

[Safai Ma]

You can try using AfxGetMainWnd, this should return your mainframe window.

-Safai

[Luc B.]

Hummm thanx for the answer but it didn't help very much... After getting the CWnd pointer to the main window how can refer to the controls in it ??? i.e I have a CListBox name lst...

thanx in advance

[Safai Ma]

Well, you can cast your "CMainFrame" to the CWnd you got from AfxGetMainWnd. Then you can access the controls inside it, assuming you have member variables of those controls.

CMainFrame *pMainFrame = (CMainFrame*)AfxGetMainWnd();
pMainFrame->m_listbox.AddString("item1");



You can do this cast because you know for sure that the main window returned from AfxGetMainWnd is always of the type CMainFrame. (or whatever you set in CWinApp::InitInstance throught CWinApp::m_pMainWnd variable)

-Safai

[Luc B.]

Thank you very much... It works wonderfully