Microsoft KB Archive/24646

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HOWTO: Create Captions for Dialog List Boxes

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Q24646

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)
 * Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)

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SUMMARY
To place text into the caption bar specified for a list box, use the SetWindowText function. First, use GetDlgItem to get the handle of the list box, then call SetWindowText to set the list box caption.

MORE INFORMATION
The following code fragment illustrates the necessary steps. NOTE: The list box includes the WS_CAPTION window style:

  ... BOOL FAR PASCAL TemplateDlg(hWndDlg, message, wParam, lParam) ...      switch (message) {      case WM_INITDIALOG: ...          /* The following line sets the Listbox caption */ SetWindowText( GetDlgItem(hWndDlg, IDDLISTBOX),                         (LPSTR)"Caption"); for (i = 0; i < CSTR; i++) { LoadString(hInstTemplate, IDSSTR1+i, (LPSTR)szWaters, 12); SendDlgItemMessage(hWndDlg, IDDLISTBOX, LB_ADDSTRING, 0,                  (LONG)(LPSTR)szWaters); }          SendDlgItemMessage(hWndDlg, IDDLISTBOX, LB_SETCURSEL, iSel, 0L); ...          return TRUE; case WM_COMMAND: ... Additional query words:

Keywords : kbCtrl kbListBox kbOSWinNT kbGrpDSUser kbOSWin

Issue type : kbhowto

Technology : kbWin32SDKSearch kbAudDeveloper kbSDKSearch kbWin32sSearch kbWinSDKSearch