Re: entering a function after dialog is displayed

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:22:50 -0700

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Another interesting thought. I don't know what, exactly, OP is trying to
do, but I've found precious few things that I couldn't just do in the
OnInitDialog() function to set up the dialog. The window is technically
available to update, it is just not showing yet. After giving this a little
more thought I'm not sure that the PostMessage() idea really is necessary
with MFC even though it does work. What would you do in another routine
that you couldn't just do in OnInitDialog()?

Tom

"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote in message
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Anthony Wieser wrote:

See Raymond Chen's excellent blog here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/09/25/770536.aspx

for answers to this, and many other perplexing questions.

Anthony:

That's interesting. I'm not sure I've ever done it, but is this saying
that the PostMessage() method I suggested does not work?

Maybe it works in MFC because modal dialogs are not really modal dialogs?
Or maybe it never works ...

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP