Re: How to keep my dialog on top?

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:37:44 -0500
Message-ID:
<OIytk.25667$Ri.9964@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>
That was my fault, I have been doing alot of C# programming lately. :)

AliR.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:eumbb4976gnltnc4jl73onu63n1q89v1pc@4ax.com...

You don't need to mention 'this' at all, and in any case, the code is
syntactically
incorrect; this-> would make sense, but this. does not. But why use it at
all?
joe

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:45:29 +0200, Rob Prins <robprins@xs4all.nl> wrote:

Thanks, problem solved:

this.SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);
this.SetWindowPos(&wndNoTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);

And it works outside OnInitDialog too, luckily. :-)

AliR (VC++ MVP) schreef:

Open the dialog in the dialog editor and set the Topmost property to
True.

You can also use SetWindowPos in the OnInitDialog

this.SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);

AliR.

"Rob Prins" <robprins@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:48b575a6$0$199$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...

Hi all,

Recently I've written a tiny tool for looking up words in a .txt-based
list. You could call it a very primitive dictionary. My problem is that
I'd like it to stay on top of all other windows, so I can see the word
I
looked up while reading or typing something else.

I know it's possible to fix this in the dialog editor, but how can I
switch it on or off from inside my code?

Thanks,

Rob


Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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