Creating an unknown number of checkboxes

[b_girl]

I need to be able to create some number of checkboxes, this number depends on the number of items that the user previously selected. What I have done is created a loop for the number of selected items, and in the loop I: for(x = 0; x < numberSelected; x++) { CButton button; CRect rect; CString buttonText; GetClientRect(rect); ClientToScreen(rect); buttonText.Format("%d", x); button.Create(buttonText, WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | BS_AUTOCHECKBOX, rect , this, x); } UpdateData(false); Now, I know that *if* this were to work, they would all show up in the same spot because the rect structure never changes, but I just wanted to make sure it would work in a loop like this before I went too far into it. But, this doesn't work anyway, can anyone help me out? Thanks.

[b_girl]

one more thing, that for loop is inside my OnInitDialog function.

[Terry ONolley]

One thing that might cause problems is that you are defining a single CButton object - and then trying to call it's Create() member over and over again. You might want to create an array of buttons as a member variable for that dialog box (if you know the maximum number you might possibly have - say 117 if you were doing chemical elements) and then make visible the ones you need visible and use MoveWindow() to position them.

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[David Crow]

Once the for loop goes out of scope, the CButton object ceases to exist. Try this:

CButton *pButton;
for (...)
{
pButton = new CButton;
pButton->Create(...);
}

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