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Re: Edit Control

Alan Balkany5-Jun-08 5:05

Alan Balkany

5-Jun-08 5:05

You probably have UNICODE defined, so substitute wchar_t for char in the example and it will work perfectly.

Re: Edit Control

Trupti Mehta5-Jun-08 21:50

Trupti Mehta

5-Jun-08 21:50

UNICODE is not in the picture at all.
Got it working as expected. None of the above worked. The correct solution found is :

CString csValue;
GetDlgItem(IDC_OpNo_EDIT)->GetWindowText( csValue );
int no = atoi((char*)(LPCTSTR)csValue);

Thanks to all of you for all of your support & efforts.

Thanks

Terry

Re: Edit Control

Alan Balkany6-Jun-08 3:15

Alan Balkany

6-Jun-08 3:15

FYI, LPCTSTR is another name for const char*, according to

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-78509.html[^]

which is what I suggested previously.

Re: Edit Control

toxcct5-Jun-08 0:02

toxcct

5-Jun-08 0:02

several ways.

either you get the full content as a string, then you cast it to an integer youself, or you can also map an integer variable to your edit control.

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Re: Edit Control

Rajesh R Subramanian5-Jun-08 0:15

Rajesh R Subramanian

5-Jun-08 0:15

See GetDlgItemInt()[^] and GetWindowText()[^]

Or use a member variable and call UpdateData(true) (The last thing you should be doing, if you know what it does).

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Re: Edit Control

sudhir_Kumar5-Jun-08 0:33

sudhir_Kumar

5-Jun-08 0:33

Attach int variable with edit control with the help of class Wizard.

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Re: Edit Control

sudhir_Kumar5-Jun-08 0:35

sudhir_Kumar

5-Jun-08 0:35

You can also attach double variable for DDX.

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Re: Edit Control

James R. Twine5-Jun-08 1:11

James R. Twine

5-Jun-08 1:11

   If you are not filtering the allowable characters in the edit control, you may have cases where users enter data that cannot be converted to a double. For example, 12345.65a, abc123, 123..4, etc.

   While I would suggest getting the text from the control and then converting it to a double, I would use strtod(...)/_tcstod(...)/wcstod(...) instead. It provides a way to tell you what character causes conversion to fail, which can be used to provide automatic error handling (i.e. ignore any invalid characters), or to provide a more helpful error message to the user.

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Re: Edit Control

Trupti Mehta5-Jun-08 4:21

Trupti Mehta

5-Jun-08 4:21

Thanks James. But still not to the mark. Actually I want to convert CString to int. So, based on your hint, I opted to use strtol and then cast it to int, as i didn't find any method that converts strtoi.

CString csValue;
GetDlgItem(IDC_OpNo_EDIT)->GetWindowText( csValue );   // Get the value of text box
LPTSTR p = csValue.GetBuffer(10);    // NEED THIS TO CONVERT TO CHAR* TO USE IN strtol
char* stopString;

long l = strtol(p, stopString, 9);  // GET ERROR DUE TO lptsrt & NOT CHAR*
csValue.ReleaseBuffer();
double d = atof((LPCTSTR)csValue);

The error is :
: error C2664: 'strtol' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'unsigned short *' to 'const char *'
Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
Error executing cl.exe.

atof also gives the same error.

aNY WAY to convert LPTSTR ot CString to char*, TCHAR* or wCHAR*.

Thanks

Terry

Re: Edit Control

James R. Twine5-Jun-08 6:47

James R. Twine

5-Jun-08 6:47

Change the function to wcstod or _tcstod, if you are straight Unicode or TCHAR-based building as Unicode, respectively.

PEace!

Re: Edit Control

David Crow5-Jun-08 2:45

David Crow

5-Jun-08 2:45

See here.

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Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

Super Hornet4-Jun-08 23:54

Super Hornet

4-Jun-08 23:54

#include "iostream.h"


int x = 10;

int main()
{
	int x = 8;

	{
		int x = 5;
		cout << x << ::x ;
		//can we access the value of x which is defined as int x = 8 here?	}

	return 0;
}

Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

toxcct5-Jun-08 0:00

toxcct

5-Jun-08 0:00

~~yes, that's what cout << x does~~ you updated your post, so now, the answer is no.

you can only access a most inner variable (by using its name) or accessing the global variable by prepending its name with the global scope operator ( :: ).

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Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

CPallini5-Jun-08 0:11

CPallini

5-Jun-08 0:11

As posted you question is ambiguous.
Anyway the following one is clear

Super Hornet wrote:
//can we access the value of x which is defined as int x = 8 here?

and the answer is (AFAIK ) no: the inner x hides the outer one.
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Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

sudhir_Kumar5-Jun-08 0:29

sudhir_Kumar

5-Jun-08 0:29

No you Can't the value with ::x will be the value from the global namespace. Smile | :)

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Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

Nibu babu thomas5-Jun-08 0:58

Nibu babu thomas

5-Jun-08 0:58

Super Hornet wrote:
//can we access the value of x which is defined as int x = 8 here?

If you badly need it then rename inner x to something else or store the previous x(main) in some variable before you declare the most inner x and use that variable.

This is not the optimal way for naming variables. You can easily give different names. Or is this an interview question?

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Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

Eytukan5-Jun-08 1:58

Eytukan

5-Jun-08 1:58

#include "iostream.h"
int x = 10;
int y;
int main()
{	
int x = 8;
y = x;
{	
int x = 5;		
cout << x << ::x ;		
 USE Y! ;)
//can we access the value of x which is defined as int x = 8 here?
}
return 0;
}

In other words, NO. You cannot do it.

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Re: Question on accessing variable within innerblock?

Rajesh R Subramanian5-Jun-08 2:46

Rajesh R Subramanian

5-Jun-08 2:46

You may use namespaces to avoid collisions.

#include<iostream>
namespace Global
{ 
  int x = 0;
  namespace inner
  {
     int x = 2;
  }

}
int main()
{
  int x = 1;
  {
     int x = 4; cout<<"This is from within a brace "<<x<<endl;
     //Braces confine the existence of variables as well, just, FYI.
  }
  cout<<"Global::x"<<Global::x<<endl;
  cout<<"x"<<x<<endl;
  cout<<"Global::inner"<<Global::inner::x<<endl;

return true;
} 

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