Remove "Untitled - " from main frame window caption

Question

I have an MFC document application where I want to remove the "Untitled - " from the caption.

It way my understanding that I need to remove the 'AddToTitle' property from the window style, and then I can set the title, and the'untitled' string would not be added.

I tried the following, but it does not work.

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
 ...

    lpCreateStruct->cx &= ~FWS_ADDTOTITLE;
    this->SetTitle(L"The New Title");
}

Anyone know how to remove 'Untitled' from the main window title?

Thanks,
-Matt

Answer 1

OnCreate is simply too late. You have to modify the style before the window is created. Just remove FWS_ADDTOTITLE in PreCreateWindow.

This is fairly well documented here.