Activating and Focus...

[Martin Thoma]

Hi !

I use a CFrameWnd as the main-window and now I want to have a toolwindow (like the ones you have, when you float a docked controlbar). The toolwindow owns the styles WS_POPUP, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW and some others and is a child of the frame.

The problem:
When activating the toolwindow, the frame is deactivated.
When activating the frame, the toolwindow is deactivated.

Of cource, I want that both, frame and toolwindow, are activated (this is the caption is blue) and deactivated (this is the caption is gray) at the same time.

How can I do this ?

Regards

Martin

[Jason Teagle]

By design, if the second window is not an MDI child of the main window, then they will gain / lose the focus in a mutually-exclusive manner (only one can have the focus at any given time).

The docked toolbar cannot be an MDI child, as it can move outside of the main window; there must be some other technique here, perhaps unique to control bars. Why not create your tool window as a control bar with the tool window style bit set? I don't know if this would work, though.

Why does it matter if the main window loses focus anyway?