The third and forth numbers are width and height.

try
> CRect cr;
> cr = CRect (15,60,49,72); // coordinates from the .rc file

AliR.

wrote in message
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> Windows XP SP2, MS Visual C++ .NET
>
> I'm creating a dialog-based application and I want to create some
> controls (static text labels and buttons) on it dynamically, during
> runtime. Therefore, I need to set the coordinates and sizes of these
> controls. For this purpose, I created some dummy controls in
> appropriate places statically, using Visual Studio resource editor, and
> then looked up the resulting resource file (.rc). There are the
> coordinates of the controls, e.g.,
>
> LTEXT "Channel",IDC_STATIC,15,60,34,12
>
> Now, I need to translate these coordinates into the parameters passed
> to the "Create" function. I did this in the "OnInitDialog()" function:
>
> CRect cr;
> cr = CRect (15,60,34,12); // coordinates from the .rc file
> MapDialogRect (&cr);
> //lbl_channel_no defined as the dialog class member
> lbl_channel_no[0].Create (_T("CHANNEL NUMBER"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
> cr, this);
>
> However, the above does not create any controls in the dialog window.
> It seems that I convert the coordinates incorrectly. What do I do wrong
> in the above code?
>

wrote in message
news:1122471671.971464.20510@o13g2000cwo.googlegro ups.com...
> Windows XP SP2, MS Visual C++ .NET
>
> I'm creating a dialog-based application and I want to create some
> controls (static text labels and buttons) on it dynamically, during
> runtime. Therefore, I need to set the coordinates and sizes of these
> controls. For this purpose, I created some dummy controls in
> appropriate places statically, using Visual Studio resource editor, and
> then looked up the resulting resource file (.rc). There are the
> coordinates of the controls, e.g.,
>
> LTEXT "Channel",IDC_STATIC,15,60,34,12
>
> Now, I need to translate these coordinates into the parameters passed
> to the "Create" function. I did this in the "OnInitDialog()" function:
>
> CRect cr;
> cr = CRect (15,60,34,12); // coordinates from the .rc file
> MapDialogRect (&cr);
> //lbl_channel_no defined as the dialog class member
> lbl_channel_no[0].Create (_T("CHANNEL NUMBER"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
> cr, this);
>
> However, the above does not create any controls in the dialog window.
> It seems that I convert the coordinates incorrectly. What do I do wrong
> in the above code?
>
>

Simple way to do it is

1) assign a unique label to the control, e.g. IDC_STATIC_CHANNEL
2) In OnInitDialog:

CRect rectChannel;
GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC_CHANNEL)->GetWindowRect(&rectChannel);
ScreenToClient (&rectChannel);

// Now rectChannel contains the pixel coordinates of the
IDC_STATIC_CHANNEL control,
// in the dialog's client coordinates (i.e. the same coordinate
system you use if you were to Create()
// the static control dynamically

Regards,
David
http://www.dcsoft.com