Changing STATIC control caption

[DerekSaw]

How to change the caption for a STATIC control under a dialog box with codes? I've try sending WM_SETTEXT to the STATIC's wndhandle (obtain from ::GetDlgItem)... but it does nothing.

[DerekSaw]

Oh. Thanks anyway. I've tested that out. We need to SET it after ShowWindow... *sigh*... is it true?

[Nish Nishant]

You can associate a dialog class member with the static control. But you need to change the default control id of the static control for that. Nish

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[Tim Smith]

No, that isn't true. But you should use SetWindowText instead of WM_SETTEXT. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

[DerekSaw]

Yep.. I did that (both SetWindowText and WM_SETTEXT)... but no text is changed.... if I set it between Create and ShowWindow, nothings happen. But if I set it after ShowWindow, yes it works! And btw, I'm using the old MFC 4.21 (i.e. from VC++ 97)

[DerekSaw]

I already change the default id to something else (e.g. IDC_SOMEDIALOG_LABEL)