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Dialog applications and a tricky situation

This i know is gonna be simple but it is foxing me.

I have a dialog based application. On the main form it minimizes and maximises correctly, if i open a pop-up dialog from the main dialog then minimize the pop-up box it minimizes to the corner of the desktop not the taskbar, leaving the parent window showing (disabled) on the desktop.

I have tried <popupdialog>->SetParent(this) before calling DoModal but this creates an exception. Has anybody any ideas what i am doing wrong.

Thanks

Matt

jhance

The problem is that you're calling DoModal(). DoModal creates (believe it or not) a MODAL dialog. The DEFINITION of MODAL is that the modal dialog MUST BE RESOLVED before the appliation can continue. Minimizing a modal window does not resolve it.

You need to create a non-modal dialog. See this for an example of how to do it:

http://www.codeguru.com/dialog/dialogMcManus.shtml

ambience

by the way why dont you remove the minimize button from the modal dialog ?

MattG

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Thanks for your responces guys. I worked it out. You have to set the property 'application window' of the dialog to true, and use SW_HIDE adn SW_RESTORE to hide the parent window(s).

Thanks

Matt

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