I'm currently using a dialog based application. May i know how do i open a file or link to the file by just selecting one of the items listed in the combo box?
For example, my program is to test IC. IC stands for Integrated circuit. The combo box will contain different type of IC. By choosing one of the IC listed in the combo box, i need to link it to a certain text file(contain series of 1 and 0 for testing purposes and different IC has different text files). Later, by clicking 'ok' button, the application will use the text file to send to my hardware. Can anybody help me to explain on how to do this.
Thanks

It isn't clear how you will keep your text files aligned to the IC, but you can use a CFile object to open the file.

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it is better to divide your problem in parts.
1:get selection from combo box
for this you should handle the notification ON_CBN_SELCHANGE
in this handler get the selection with GetLBText()
2: how to relate data
For this purpose you can use GetItemData() and SetItemData()
or GetItemDataPtr() and SetItemDataPtr()


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