Dialog box focus

Hello,
I am writing a program using VC++ with MFC,
I added some dialog boxes and I want that once one of the dialog is opened by DoModal()
all the buttons on the parent dialog will be disabled,
How can I do it?


thanks

What's the point in that? DoModal will prevent the user from accessing all other windows anyway.

Quote:

---

What's the point in that? DoModal will prevent the user from accessing all other windows anyway.

---

Sometimes it looks nice ;)

With GetWindow you can enumerate all the children of the dialog, and with IsKindOf you can check if the childwindow is a CButton and en/disable it. With these 2 you can make a loop that loops all the elements on a dialog and set the buttonstate.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Skizmo

S... and with IsKindOf you can check if the childwindow is a CButton and en/disable it. With these 2 you can make a loop that loops all the elements on a dialog and set the buttonstate.

---

I'd suggest checking windows class (using GetClassName) rather than MFC class because there may be unsubclassed buttons.

Again though, what's the point in disabling buttons you can't click on anyway?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by GCDEF

Again though, what's the point in disabling buttons you can't click on anyway?

---

I don't know! Perhaps, OP would like to see all these buttons as disabled!? :confused:

I agree with GCDEF. It's more user-friendly to let an application behave as most other applications do. Otherwise, it's just confusing. Users may think there is something wrong with the application just because a button is disabled when they didn't expect it.