Selective response to UpdateData()

[Guest_imported]

Hi!
The problem is this..i have a dialog based application in which one section of the dialog continually needs to be refreshed to reflect the status of certain parameters. However the other side concurrently accepts user input through an edit box.
As the result of the continual Updatedata(FALSE) (which is meant for one section of the box), the data from the edit box into which i input data, periodically disappears making it impossible for me to enter the data (unless i can do it at superhuman speeds!).
I was wondering if there was a way that i could make an edit box or any element in general respond selecively to UpdateData(), (TRUE or FALSE..whatever). Any solutions/alternative ideas ? Thx.

 

[hankgao0703]

hi,
I believe you can not achive what you want with UpdateData() because it has no way to know which control you want to change.
try to use GetDlgItem to get a CWnd pointer to that control(CEdit or whatever), through that pointer, you can change whatever you want.

this is my first post, I hope it can help.

Hank

 

[TGM]

Hi

What about removing the Edit box of the OnDataExchange schema, using OnChange handler of the EditBox and, in that handler, GetDlgItemText() or GetDlgItemInt()....

HTH

Thierry