hi

iv created my self a Edit Controle as followed

hwndTextBox =
CreateWindow("EDIT","temp",WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_ BORDER,100,50,200,100,hwnd
,NULL,GlobalHInstance,NULL);

and it works fine i can type stuff in it. my only prob is i do not know how
to extract the text.

iv also created a button and what im trying to do is that when some one
presses the button i can copy what ever is in the Edit Controle and do what
ever i want to do with it in the programing.

iv got my button working as well i just can't figure out how to get access
to what the user types in.

Any help would be grate

Thanks

Giz

Hmm your question is pretty basic win32 programming, you should check out
the tutorial at www.winprog.net/tutorial.

As for your question:

To get the text of a control use GetWindowText(..), e.g

char buf[100];
GetWindowText(hwndTextBox,buf,100);

Since you want this to happen when someone presses a button, you need to do
something like this in your message loop:

case WM_COMMAND:
switch(LOWORD(wParam))
{
case IDBUTTON:
char buf[100];
GetWindowText(hwndTextBox,buf,100);
break;
}
break;

Tom.


"Gizmo" <scottamillard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bma9n1$ddf$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...

Gizmo wrote:
Hello Gizmo,

char buf[BUFSIZE];
SendMessage(hwndTextBox, WM_GETTEXT, BUFSIZE, buf);

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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]

Just wanted to thank you both for the help and thanks for the web link . .
its a grate help

thank you

giz