Re: Edit box with win32

["Ben Kohlen" <bkohlen@hotmail.com>]

Cesar,

If you are programming Windows with the SDK (the right way) instead of MFC 
(the easy way) you need to get Charles Petzold's book: Programming Windows 
(Fifth Edition is most recent).  As far as getting what has been typed into 
an edit box, you can use the SendMessage() function, specifying the edit box 
HWND and the EM_GETLINE message, or you can just use the 
GetWindowTextLength() and GetWindowText() calls. If you are using VC++, you 
should have msdn installed, and you can look this stuff up.  One thing i can 
say for Microsoft is that VC++ with the MSDN and code completion installed 
is (possibly) the best/easiest/most complete development environment on the 
face of the planet.

As far as getch() in win32, you need to lookup the WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP 
messages.

Cheers,
Ben.


From: Cesar Rodriguez <cesar.rodriquez@cook-hurlbert.com>
Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
To: "'gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com'"  
<gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Subject: Edit box with win32
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:26:33 -0500

hi!, I'm making a little game with vc++ and fastgraph for windows, I need a
edit box to get the player name, I was able to put the edit box using
CreateWindowEx function, but I need to get the string that the user enters
and to make the edit box invisible and visible when needed.

also the thing that I really would like it to have a function like getch()
in win32.

thanks in advance


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