Rect Value AGAIN!!!!!!!

[Lost User]

hi guys i need help on this real bad.... i posted this messege earlier but didnt solve the problem .. will someone plese respond to this .. please........... I have a MFC application dialog based.. has 2 dialog forms say dialog1 and dialog 2.. in dialog1 i have a picture holder (IDC_HOLDER). what i need to do is get the "Rect" value of that holder from dialog2 .. i can do that from dialog1 with CRect rc; GetDlgItem(IDC_HOLDER)->GetWindowRect(rc); but how to access that from dialog2.... i tried CDialog1* dlg; dlg->GetDlgItem(IDC_HOLDER)->GetWindowRect(rc); doesnot work... my whole project has come to HALT by this ... please help .. someone !!!!! thanks zm where are all the GURUS???

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[gdocherty]

Does dialog1 open dialog2? If it does, try the following: 1. Give dialog2 a member variable - HWND m_hWnd1; 2. Before dialog1 opens dialog2 use - dialog2.m_hWnd1 = m_hWnd; Then use: RECT r; ::GetWindowRect(::GetDlgItem(m_hWnd1, IDC_HOLDER), &r);