What is the use of OninitDialog ?

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / suyambu

All your initialization for your dialog can be
inside "OnInitDialog". Basically to set default / preset
values to your dialog controls.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / satheesh kumar

OnInitDialog() is a virtual function.It is called just
before the dialog box is displayed.It initializes the dialog
box controls.We can override this function in our derived
dialog class.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / chaitanya shah

OnInitDialog method is Overridable in CDialog. For dialog
based application class is derived from CDialog. If class
is derived from CDialog then it need to define InitDialog
Method.It is first method which called when dialog DoModle
method called.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / bijender singh

OninitDialog() will do the initialization of all the
controls on dialog before displaying the dialog.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / songeetha

OnInitDialog is a inbuilt MFC function for all classes that
user creates. This function is overwritten by the user for
intial changes.
The initial updates for the classes or for dialogs can be
done through this function.
This function can be invoked automatically whenever that
class has been called or invoked from another class.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / rck

OnInitDialog() function is called only once after the dialog is created and before the dialog is displayed.
we can use like to set the window title bar,to set the focus to the control etc....

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / pavan

OnInitDialog is an overridable function that's called just before the dialog is drawn /shown. This is the function where the dialog controls can be set with data, such as Combobox items and it's selection (not necessarily at 0 index), text in the editbox etc

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / ram 9885422717 from mlg

the name itself says the meaning On means actavate,init
means INITIALIZATIOn dialog is nothing but a window with
built in(already exist) buttons.
so when ever this function is occured it will activate the
initializations of dialog.this is the function where we can
initialize the variables of the dialog.

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / ctharam

OnInitDialog() is a virtual function.It is called just
before the dialog box is displayed.It initializes the dialog
box controls.We can override this function in our derived
dialog class. By default , it returns TRUE

Ex:-

BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog()
{
CDialog::OnInitDialog();

// TODO: Add extra initialization here
m_cMyEdit.SetWindowText("My Name"); // Initialize control values
m_cMyList.ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); // Show or hide a control, etc.

return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
// EXCEPTION: OCX Property Pages should return FALSE
}

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What is the use of OninitDialog ? ..

Answer / sk

OninitDialog is default one present in CDialog class.In this
we can add controls like buttons and we can draw the area
by using OnDraw fuction.In sdi & mdi class we have to add
the function by using OnInitialUpdate or WM_INTIDIALOG.

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