How to retrieve the value of a dialog edit control?

[KaidzAccount]

I have a dialog resource, ID_DIALOG with an edit control, ID_TXTFORM

How do I retrieve the current text of the text field on the WM_COMMAND switch wparam message loop and assign it to a variable?

[Disch]

1) Get the HWND to the edit control. You can get this with the GetDlgItem() function:

HWND editbox = GetDlgItem( YourDlgHwnd, ID_TXTFORM );

2) Get the text from the edit box wtih GetWindowText:

char text[100];
GetWindowText( editbox, text, 100 );

If you want you can make sure the string is big enough by checking GetWindowTextLength():

int length = GetWindowTextLength( editbox ) + 1; // +1 for null terminator
char* text = new char[length];
GetWindowText(editbox,text,length);

[KaidzAccount]

Thanks.