Visual Studio 2008 C++ Writing to a dialog during OnInit or at startup

Question

Ok, If I cannot write on a dialog during oninit by:

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You can't use the function SSTextOut() in OnInitDialog(). OnInitDialog() is called before your dialog is displayed, so you can't get a valid CDC inside of it (because the dialog hasn't been drawn yet).

From the looks of it, SSTextOut() is meant to be called from an OnPaint() override.

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Is there any way I can write some text to the 1st dialog screen at startup. I want to put some info on the dialog screen under program control rather then by static text!

Answer 1

I'm not sure what SSTextOut is, but during OnInitDialog, the dialog does have a valid DC. It hasn't been displayed yet, but it does exist, and so do all the controls in the dialog, so putting text into a control (e.g. an Edit control) is perfectly valid, and when the user sees the dialog, the text will be there as soon as the user sees the dialog.