How to give an edit box focus on application startup

[Ulfhedhin]

I'd like to give an edit box focus when my program starts but I'm having a hard time figuring it out. Everything I've found uses something like TEXTBOXNAME.Focus() or TEXTBOXNAME.Select() but I haven't made my edit box that way. I just placed it on the form from the toolbox.

[jwkNwA7f]

You can use SetFocus().

case WM_CREATE:
     myEdit = CreateWindow("edit", "", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, 0, 0, 
                      100, 25, hwnd, NULL, NULL, NULL);
     SetFocus(myEdit);

Hope this helped!

[Ulfhedhin]

I've never seen code like that. How would I link my edit box to this code? What is "myEdit"? Is that the handle to my edit box? What is that code doing?

[jwkNwA7f]

Oh, are using MFC?

EDIT: I was assuming WinAPI, sorry.
EDIT 2: Just noticed,

I just placed it on the form from the toolbox.

it looks like you are using windows forms. Sorry, I can't help with that.