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In article <NEWTNews.16531.822443361.Postmaster@Jerusalem.netvision.net.il>, 
iti@Jerusalem.netvision.net.il says...
>
>When I try to read the text from a Edit Control (IDC_EDIT1) with the
>following code:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>CString callBuf;
>int msgLen = GetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1, callBuf, sizeof(callBuf));
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I get the following error:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>error C2664: 'GetDlgItemText' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'class 
>::CString ' to 'char __far *'
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>I am using Visual C++, how can I read the text directly into the CString?
>I know that I am doing something REAL STUPID so if you can be of any help-

If you are using CWnd::GetDlgItemText(), then the code is quite simple:

int msgLen=GetDlgItemText( IDC_EDIT1, callBuf );

The compiler error is generated because Visual C++ is trying to match on
one of the two over-rides:

int GetDlgItemText( int nID, LPTSTR lpStr, int nMaxCount ) const;
int GetDlgItemText( int nID, CString& rString ) const;

(Taken directly from Visual C++ 4.0 help.) You are confusing the compiler
by providing a CString reference *AND* the integer.

'Course, all bets are off if you are _NOT_ using CWnd::GetDlgItemText().
If that's the case, you've got to either allocate a separate char* buffer,
or create a buffer inside the CString object with the GetBuffer() method,
which has the following prototype:

LPTSTR GetBuffer( int nMinBufLength );

Hope this helps.

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