Message handling for CMyEdit

I've built CMyEdit based on CEdit and I have a couple of problems. Firstly, I wanted to initialise the text within CMyEdit once the control gets a m_hWnd, but I can't work out which interrupt to use: OnCreate never seems to trigger. Secondly, I need CMyEdit to retain whatever styles were applied in the dialog editor (eg. Visible), since changing these options don't seem to affect the control when it actually appears. Any ideas? I understand that I can do both these things by calling functions from the OnInitDialog in the parent dialog, but I would rather CMyEdit do this automatically (it's much cleaner that way).

Thanks,
Eddie.

Have you created a membervariable of CMyEdit in the Classwizard for your Editbox in the dialogbox?

Yeah I have. The class works OK, but it doesn't retain the styles specified in the dialog editor, and the interrupts don't cut in.

Eddie.