Disabling menu item

Or, if you have access to the dialog, i.e. via pointer, you can simply use CWnd::IsWindowVisible() instead of using a flag ...

Thank you for your reply. The above tip is quite working well. But the problem is, once i close the dialog i can not open the dialog again . i have to retstart the complete application. Please give me solution.

Thanking you,
vihar123

hm ... seems as if you didn't reset the flag when dialog closed ... therefore I meant IsWindowVisible to be the better way because you don't need to care about such a flag ...

Thank you for your reply. And i am sorry to  ask you again. I did't reset the flag while closing dialog. Because i was unble to access the flag variable in Dialog class. And i could't under stand to use CWnd::IsWindowVisible() method. please look into this.

Thanking you
Vihar123

Well, it's easy if you can somehow make the dialog accessible in the class in which you implemented the ::OnUpdate...(CCmdUI* pCmdUI).

This depends on how the dialog is implemented, so I can only show how I would do it (BTW, I assume it's a modeless dialog):

In the CWinApp derived class I would add a pointer to an instance of my dialog, i.e.:

class CMyApp : public CWinApp
{
 CDialog* m_pMyDlg; // you can even use the class of the dialog you have if you need it, but for this approach we don't need it ...
 ...
}

// in CMyApp constructor we create the instance, i.e.
CMyApp::CMyApp()
{
 ...
 m_pMyDlg = new CMyDialog;
 ...
}

// then here's the menu-item's update handle
void CMyApp::OnUpdateMyDialogMenu( CCmdUI* pCmdUI )
{
 BOOL bVisible = ( NULL != m_pMyDlg && NULL != m_pMyDlg->m_hWnd && FALSE != ::IsWindow( m_pMyDlg->m_hWnd ) && FALSE != m_pMyDlg->IsWindowVisible );

 pCmdUI->Enable( bVisible );
}

// then you can create the dialog as usual with Create, i.e.
...
CMyApp* pApp = (CMyApp*)AfxGetApp();
pApp->m_pMyDlg->Create(...);
pApp->m_pMyDlg->ShowWindow( SW_SHOW );
...



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Thank you for your reply. I could't able to follow the above method. Please tell me how can i reset my flag while closing the window. I think i have to send my own message while closing. How can i proceed for this.

Thanking you. Looking forward for your reply.

Vihar

Well, the method I mentioned above doesn't use such a flag, so there's no need to set/reset one ...

It's hard to say more exactly what you should do since I don't know anything about how you implemented what you have ...

Thank you for your reply. I implemented this by sending own message at the time of closing dialog.

Vihar123