Re: Changing default buttons

From:

"Sheng Jiang[MVP]" <sheng_jiang@hotmail.com.discuss>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:46:47 -0500

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<4A616FCF-B5CF-48DC-AC7A-4762AACE3B21@microsoft.com>

Quoted from the documentation of DM_SETDEFID in MSDN

"Using the DM_SETDEFID message can result in more than one button appearing
to have the default push button state. When the system brings up a dialog,
it draws the first push button in the dialog template with the default state
border. Sending a DM_SETDEFID message to change the default button will not
always remove the default state border from the first push button. In these
cases, the application should send a BM_SETSTYLE message to change the first
push button border style."

The new default button also must exist and be enabled.
--
Regards
Sheng Jiang
Microsoft MVP in VC++
"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Sheng Jiang[MVP]" wrote:

then send the DM_SETDEFID to the property page

It doesn't seem to work. When I use this to set one of the pushbuttons in
the page to be the default, the Back button retains the default status,
and
the push button that I tried to set as the default does not show as the
default.

Also, as I mentioned in another posting to this thread,
CDialog::SetDefID()
doesn't work in the regular dialogue in which I'm using it.

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