Dialog problem/questions

[Thresher]

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...

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

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

[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.

[Thresher]

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.

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.

[JohnCz]

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:

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

this will make desktop window owner of the modeless dialog.

[Thresher]

Ohhh... gotcha! THanks!

[JohnCz]

You are welcome.