I have an edit box in a dialog box and I want to know how to get the value of the edit box. I have tried this GetDlgItemText(hDlg, IDEDIT1, szString, MAXLEN); **NOTE** MAXLEN is defined as 80 and szString is an array of 80 chars But when I check the string its empty. I know I have typed text in the right edit box, and pressed the right button so those to things can''t be the problem. Visit http://members.xoom.com/ivanickgames

Did you call UpdateData? If you didn''t nothing much''ll be updated.
Are you using the DDX macros?


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the GetDlgItemText function doesn''t necessarily have anything to do with the DDX macros. (at least not directly) The function exists as both a member function of CWnd in MFC and a windows api function. Since C++ Freak is passing the HWND of the dialog to the function, he''s probably not using MFC.

To the original poster: make sure the dialog box is still open when the function is called. If you aren''t checking the return value of the function, do so. if its zero, use GetLastError to determine why the function is failing. if the function is not failing i''m not sure what is wrong...
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I got it to work. The problem was this line

#define IDEDIT1 989

I changed it to a number that works though and it works perfectly now. Thanks for the help.

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Hi !

Another very simple solution is just to use the CWnd''s member function GetWindowText. It returns the content of the edit-box (in other window-types the window title) as a CString.

Phillip Schuster