How to change the size of the text control in mfc

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hi all ,
I have created a dialog based application .I have taken a text control which I need to change for its size to accommodate more text for that text control for some specific requirement but need to do it through code not by simply stretching it .

I thought to change its size when InitDialog() is called but I am not getting that piece of code to that .
IDC_STATIC is the control Id of text control .

I want to do something like that
GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC)->SetRectangleSize(co-ordinates for the rectangle)
Kindly provide me correct version of the solution .

Posted 26-Oct-12 9:38am

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André Kraak · Answer 1 · 2012-10-26T09:43:00

Solution 1

Use the CWnd::SetWindowPos[^] function to change the dimension of the control at run-time.

Posted 26-Oct-12 9:43am

André Kraak

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Oct-12 16:01pm

Nearly one-to-one mapping to Win32 API. My 5.
--SA

CPallini 26-Oct-12 16:07pm

Welcome to MFC. :-)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Oct-12 17:20pm

Who would doubt that..? :-)
--SA

André Kraak 26-Oct-12 16:02pm

Thanks.

Sharjith · Answer 2 · 2012-10-26T11:08:00

Solution 2

Change id to IDC_STATIC_1 or something that makes it unique and the code

C++

GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC_1)->SetRectangleSize(co-ordinates for the rectangle);

should do what you are looking for
The example I have shown stresses on the dialog item id and not the actual method you need to get your job done.

Posted 26-Oct-12 11:08am

Sharjith

Updated 26-Oct-12 11:12am

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sum_and_sum · Answer 3 · 2012-10-27T17:17:00

Solution 3

you can see HWND::movewindow API in MSDN

Posted 27-Oct-12 17:17pm

sum_and_sum