Re: modeless dialog
The only difference between a modal and modeless dialog is that bring up a
Modal dialog is a blocking call (Calling DoModal will not return until the
user closes the dialog). Which means that only one modal dialog can be
active at any one time, a MessageBox is a Modal dialog. But modeless is not
that way, you can have as many open as you like and you can switch between
them.
Therefore what buttons are on the dialog has nothing to do with whether it
is modeless or not.
Also having a modeless dialog as the main window does not really buy you
much.
We might be able to help better if you can describe the end results that you
are trying to accomplish.
AliR.
"JG" <NoMail@NoSpam> wrote in message news:g0k0l102p1u@news1.newsguy.com...
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I'm trying to create a modeless dialog as the one and only AppWindow (with
MFC Visual C )
My default app comes up with an OK and CANCEL
button. I delete the buttons in the resource editor
but is the dialog now modeless ? Or is there more
I suspect to do. And how will it handle and Esc key?
Does this sort of thing have to be done without
the default resource dialog (by hand ) ?
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