Re: How to suppress SW_MAXIMIZE flag?

From:
Martin <martin-g@mail.ru>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<d3a42935-fec8-4162-a9bc-9a5a0d5a8ac8@m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 23, 5:06 pm, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

You can modify the system menu to not have a "Maximize" menu item, and in=

 the OnSysCommand

handler, you can ignore any message that has SC_MAXIMIZE (in a dialog-bas=

ed app, there is

already a test for the About menu item, so put it there; remember that yo=

u need to ignore

the low-order 4 bits)
                                joe

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:40:26 -0700 (PDT), Martin <marti...@mail.ru> wrote=

:

Hi.

The dialog window in my dialog based MFC application has its Maximize
button disabled, so, seems there's no way to maximize the window.
Anyway, a shortcut with "Maximized" value in the "Run" section can
easily run my application with an ugly maximized dialog window. I
know, in this case WinMain gets SW_MAXIMIZE as its nCmdShow
parameter's value. I tried 2 things, none of which helped:

1) Setting CWinApp::m_nCmdShow to SW_SHOWNORMAL early in InitInstance;
2) Dropping WS_MAXIMIZE window style bit in PreCreateWindow, also
tried in OnInitDialog;

So, the question is how to suppress SW_MAXIMIZE flag in MFC dialog
based application?

Thanks,
Martin


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Joseph, it didn't helped... I created a sample MFC dialog based
application - the dialog already hadn't "Maximize" menu item (seems
this is managed by the framework). I slightly changed OnSysCommand
into this:

void CMFCDlgAppDlg::OnSysCommand(UINT nID, LPARAM lParam)
{
    if ((nID & 0xFFF0) == IDM_ABOUTBOX)
    {
        CAboutDlg dlgAbout;
        dlgAbout.DoModal();
    }
    else if ((nID & 0xFFF0) == SC_MAXIMIZE)
    {
        // Do noting
    }
    else
    {
        CDialog::OnSysCommand(nID, lParam);
    }
}

I tested some more dialog based applications from SourceForge, also
msconfig.exe -- all of those had the defect. The only "normal" one was
Calculator.

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