How to insert string in edit control

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I'm going to add string at runtime in edit control,I've tried with different method and strategies but it won't inserted or if inserted but not displayed in edit control!!!
How to make this!please give me solution.
Thanks in advance!!

Posted 13-Dec-12 22:31pm

Venkat Raghvan

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Richard MacCutchan 14-Dec-12 5:18am

You need to give more details of what you are doing and what results you see. We cannot guess what your code does.

Venkat Raghvan 14-Dec-12 5:24am

I have one edit control & one button,whenever user press a button then String(which I declared at compile time)should be inserted in that edit control at runtime

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-13T23:22:00

Inserting is performed by setting the position with SetSel() passing the position index as start and end point and replacing the (empty) selection with the text calling ReplaceSel(). To append text, pass -1 as position index. To set the complete text (replace all), use SetWindowText().

C++

// Insert text at specified position using a CEdit derived class
void CMyEdit::InsertText(int nPos, LPCTSTR lpszText)
{
    SetSel(nPos, nPos);
    ReplaceSel(lpszText);
}

// Insert text at specified position of a CEdit control that is a member of a dialog
void CMyDialog::InsertEditText(int nPos, LPCTSTR lpszText)
{
    m_edit.SetSel(nPos, nPos);
    m_edit.ReplaceSel(lpszText);
}

// Insert text at specified position of a CEdit inside a dialog using the resource ID
void CMyDialog::InsertText(int nID, int nPos, LPCTSTR lpszText)
{
    CEdit *pEdit = (CEdit *)GetDlgItem(nID);
    pEdit->SetSel(nPos, nPos);
    pEdit->ReplaceSel(lpszText);
}