Re: Dialog Woes

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:36:27 -0500
Message-ID:
<44ef51a3$0$15189$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
GetParent for the main dialogbox will return NULL.

AliR.

"Alec S." <@> wrote in message news:uymn1tHyGHA.3632@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

"ST" <stwebmail@gmail.com> wrote

AliR wrote:

A child dialog can not go behind its parent window, period. So if you

want

the child to go behind the parent it needs to have the same parent is

the

parent window itself (so that they are essentially siblings)

And you don't have to mess with the zorder.


Ok. Thanks for all help. I will just have to make a dummy parent
dialog that never gets displayed and then simulate a "main" dialog via
one of the children.


Hold on, I think you're complicating it. When you create the modeless

dialog you are using Create() right? When you do that, there

is a parameter for Create that specifies the parent of the new window.

Just pass in the parent to your main dialog as the parent to

the new window (the modeless dialog). For example:

  CDialog *newmodelessdialog=new CDialog;
  newmodelessdialog->Create(IDD_MODELESSDLG, GetParent());

or for some other kind of window:

  CWnd *n=new CWnd;
  n->Create("mydlgclass", "mytitle", WS_BLAH, CRect(0,0,10,10),

GetParent(), 0);

That way, the parent of the main dialog is also the parent of the new

modeless one, so they will be siblings and setting the z-order

should work.

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