Dialog problem/questions

I have a Modal dialog, Parent, and a button it that'll call a modeless dialog Child. I want to be able to have the Child dialog in the background and bring the Parent into the foreground with, say a Left mouseclick. I figured that since the Child dialog is modeless it can go behind the Parent no problem... but I cannot get it to work. I've tried this in the Parent OnLeftMouseClick...

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this->SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_SHOWWINDOW );

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b/c after reading the MSDN pages I thought this should work... how do I accomplish this? Thanks...:)

Modeless dialog is not really a child of one that spawned it. Modal owns modeless

If you pass pointer to a desktop instead of this than modeless will stay on a top of desktop window.

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Originally posted by JohnCz
Modeless dialog is not really a child of one that spawned it. Modal owns modeless

If you pass pointer to a desktop instead of this than modeless will stay on a top of desktop window.

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I probably wasn't clear but the Modal dialog is the Parent and the Child is Modeless... so shouldn't the Parent be able to be on top is one clicks on it? I don't want the Modeless Child dialog on top when it's not active.

Again: modeless is not a child in this scenario. Child window occupy parent’s client area and is contained to this area. Window has WS_CHILD style.

Modeless dialog has popup or overlap style.

Do this calling Create:

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        m_dlg.Create(CModelessDlg::IDD, GetDesktopWindow());

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this will make desktop window owner of the modeless dialog.

Ohhh... gotcha! THanks!

You are welcome.