Why don't it work in OnInitialUpdate or other

I have the following Code to see some fields in a Combo box it works right but how can I do it in a FormView to see the combo with the items on start up so that I dont have to click any other button?

void CSetTagsForm::OnBnClickedWrite()
{
for(int x = 0; x < (sizeof(genres) / sizeof(char*)); ++x)
m_Combo.AddString(genres[x]);
}

thats the rest of the code:

// SetTagsForm.cpp : implementation file
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "MP3Locater.h"
#include "SetTagsForm.h"
#include "DirDialog.h"
#include "..\id3lib-3.8.0\include\id3\tag.h"

//Genresarten
static const char *genres[] = {
"Blues ", "Classic Rock ", "Country ", "Dance ",
"Disco ", "Funk ", "Grunge ", "Hip-Hop ",
"Jazz ", "Metal ", "New Age ", "Oldies ",
"Other ", "Pop ", "R&B ", "Rap ",
"Reggae ", "Rock ", "Techno ", "Industrial ",
"Alternative ", "Ska ", "Death Metal ", "Pranks ",
"Soundtrack ", "Euro-Techno ", "Ambient ", "Trip-Hop ",
"Vocal ", "Jazz+Funk ", "Fusion ", "Trance ",
"Classical ", "Instrumental ", "Acid ", "House ",
"Game ", "Sound Clip ", "Gospel ", "Noise ",
"Altern Rock ", "Bass ", "Soul ", "Punk ",
"Space ", "Meditative ", "Inst. Pop ", "Instrum. Rock ",
"Ethnic ", "Gothic ", "Darkwave ", "Techno-Indus ",
"Electronic ", "Pop-Folk ", "Eurodance ", "Dream ",
"Southern Rock ", "Comedy ", "Cult ", "Gangsta ",
"Top 40 ", "Christian Rap ", "Pop/Funk ", "Jungle ",
"Native American", "Cabaret ", "New Wave ", "Psychadelic ",
"Rave ", "Showtunes ", "Trailer ", "Lo-Fi ",
"Tribal ", "Acid Punk ", "Acid Jazz ", "Polka ",
"Retro ", "Musical ", "Rock & Roll ", "Hard Rock "
};

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// CSetTagsForm

IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE(CSetTagsForm, CFormView)

CSetTagsForm::CSetTagsForm()
: CFormView(CSetTagsForm::IDD)
, m_Directory(_T(""))
, m_Edit_Title(_T(""))
, m_Edit_Artist(_T(""))
{
}




CSetTagsForm::~CSetTagsForm()
{
}

void CSetTagsForm::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)
{
CFormView::DoDataExchange(pDX);
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_DIRECTORY, m_Directory);
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_EDIT_TITLE, m_Edit_Title);
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_EDIT_ARTIST, m_Edit_Artist);
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_COMBO1, m_Combo);
}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSetTagsForm, CFormView)
ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_OPEN, OnBnClickedOpen)
ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_WRITE, OnBnClickedWrite)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()


// CSetTagsForm diagnostics

#ifdef _DEBUG
void CSetTagsForm::AssertValid() const
{
CFormView::AssertValid();
}

void CSetTagsForm::Dump(CDumpContext& dc) const
{
CFormView::Dump(dc);
}
#endif //_DEBUG


// CSetTagsForm message handlers

hope anyone will help me its very important

Hi guy,

You mentioned OnInitialUpdate and thats where it can be done
void CInitialupdateView::OnInitialUpdate()
{
CFormView::OnInitialUpdate();
GetParentFrame()->RecalcLayout();
ResizeParentToFit();
m_combo.AddString( "Hello" );
m_combo.AddString( "Bood Bye" );
m_combo.SetCurSel( 0 );
}

Are you saying this does not work the first time the form is loaded ?

Visual Studio.Net is ****ed. It does this to me too. Why?

Sorry ! If this is VS.Net problem then I'm out. I uninstalled mine and left myself with VS6

Best things to do ?
-Set a breakpoint in OnInitialUpdate and make sure it is called.
-Post yourself a message after creating the window and update the text there.
-Check MS website for workaround
-Update .netRuntime

Good luck !

the combo box is NULL in OnInitUpdate / OnInitDialog. For some reason, it no longer gets a value until after the function have exited. You can set a timer of 1ms at the end of OnInitDialog, but that is still stupid. Why does microsoft do this to us?

Well I might just reinstall to see this happening. There seems to be a lot of vc7 specific bugs here. Anyway, try putting a breakpoint where your ddx_control is for the combobox and see if that is not hit untill after.

Otherwise try GetDlgItem(), is that null ?
Try it after the base class call to OnCreate(), hope it works there !

If you still have a problem I'll reinstall and try to find a good work around if you need.