Help with ReBar

[Erik Johansson]

I have made a simple sdi program with a rebar in vc++6.0
And I have put an edit box on the rebar. How can I get data from the edit box.
Please explain because I´m a real beginner!

thanx

[Satadal]

A Rebar is nothing but an enhanced toolbar added with VC++6.0 to give that 'flat' look & feel.
When appwizard created that rebar for u it has also added a member variable (say CReBar m_rebar) in MainFrm.h. The actual creation is done in CMainFrame::OnCreate(). Use that member variable to get a handle to the edit box. And then get the data from it. The code snippet is below:
CWnd *pWnd = m_rebar.GetDlgItem(IDC_MYEDIT);//Where IDC_MYEDIT is the ID of the edit control added by u on the rebar dialog template.
CString str;
pWnd->GetWindowText(str); //str will contain the edit box contents
Hope this helps )

[Erik Johansson]

I tried it but the program exits and I get an assert message on
pWnd->GetWindowText(str);
here
ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));
what am I doing wrong?

[Satadal]

It basically means that the CWnd pointer to the edit control is not proper. Reasons may be due to invalid ID passed to GetDlgItem() or the wrong place where u are doing it. Could u paste the code snippet and the function where u are doing it?

[Erik Johansson]

When I type something in the edit box this functions is called.
I named the edit box IDC_EDIT
void CMainFrame::OnChangeEdit()
{
CWnd *pWnd = m_wndReBar.GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT);
CString str;
pWnd->GetWindowText(str);
MessageBox(str);
}

[Erik Johansson]

it works..
I changed m_wndReBar.GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT)
to
m_wndDlgBar.GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT)

When I type something in the edit box and push enter I want to use the CHtmlView function Navigate2 to transfer me to the location that I typed in. But the problem is that m_wndDlgBar is a CMainFrm member. How can I get the data in my edit box in my CView class?
Like this
void CTestView::GetData()
{
CString str
Get the data in my edit box
Navigate2(str,NULL,NULL);
}