Creating MFC child dialogs and windows in DLL.
Hi, I need to write some kind of plug-in, which are implemented as separate
dll's. I already wrote a few plugins for this program using MFC and it
worked ok, but now I need to create some GUI inside a plugin.
I have an interface like that
class IModule
{
public:
virtual void ShowConfDialog( HWND hwndParent ) = 0;
virtual HWND CreatePanel( HWND hwndParent ) =0; // create child
window, position and size will be
// controlled by a parent window.
}
But when creating a child windows in MFC I need to pass a parent's CWnd
pointer. Can I create child windows just like that :
HWND CreatePanel( HWND hwndParent )
{
m_wndParent.Attach( hWndParent );
m_wndChild.Create( &m_wndParent );
}
or maybe like that:
m_wndChild.Create( CWnd::FromHandle(hwndParent) );
Which way is correct ? I know about issues with the message passing between
dll and exe, but I solved it already ( plugin can filter all messages from a
message queue ), so I only need to create a child window.
Thanks in advance,
Adam
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