More dialogs

do you mean the default values that appear in an edit box as soon as the dialog appears?

no, i can put in default values using the workshop, i need to know how to pass variables into them when they are executed.



 

If you are programming with object pascal then you have a PEdit object and you can call the setText method.
   If you are programming with raw windows (à la Petzold as I say) then we are going to write SendDlgItemMessage(hDlg,IDD_ITEM,EM_SETTEXT,0,Long(PChar(@Text))); or something similar!

not quite what i meant.

When i run a dialog with:
 Application^.ExecDialog(New(PMyDialog, Init(@Self, DIALOG_2')));    

I want value to appear staight away, ie loaded from suitable variables.

I know how to send the data there:
 
setdlgitemint(Hwindow,250,Share_Pointer,false);

for example; but i need this to be run as soon as the dialog box is initiated.
   

You have a type TMyDialog and PMyDialog = ^TMyDialog. The object TMyDialog is probably extended from TDialog. The method SetupWindow is called on WM_INITDIALOG and at this point the "handle to window" TMyDialog.hWindow is valid and you can call setdlgitemint if you want.

I'm still a bit lost with this dialog thing malarky.
Could you write down how you would run a dialog designed in resource work shop and enter values in it to see if I'm on the right lines?

ha, stumped you all hey?