I've never used visual c++ before but am trying something I hope will be easy for someone to help me with. I've used some basic c stuff in the past on unix and dos.

I have vis c++ 6, i added a mfc app exe, i have a form with an edit box on it, and I called it IDC_currec.

There is an ok button on the form.

On the buttonok event, I've got something like this (real simple).

void CBatchLDlg::OnOK()
{
    FILE *fpin;
    char buff[5000];

    fpin = fopen("c:\\temp\\input-file.txt", "r");
    while (fgets(buff,5000,fpin)!=NULL){
        strcpy(IDC_currec.text,buff);
    }
    fclose(fpin);

    CDialog::OnOK();
}

How do I get the data from each row in this file (buff) to be displayed on the form in the edit box called IDC_currec???

I'd appreciate a heads up.

Sorry if this is all wrong, but I'm just guessing. I've had no training or prior experience with VC. I've used Vis Basic 6 a bit, and can do this SO easy but I really want to start using C++ for various reasons which I won't go into right now.

In VB it would be something like IDC_currect.text = whatever but this is not working. This example shown is the last thing I tried.

Thanks,

Kenneth

 Bleh I haven't done any MFC development for awhile, but I think the name of the funciton you are looking for is setText() -- you see, what you are trying to do with a strcpy() is directly write to an objects internal member variable, which violates encapsulation -- you have to get and set values with accessor functions, for example control.getText() or control.setText().

Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan