How to prevent Modeless Dialog box on the Task Bar

[sunkingac]

Hai all,

I use a modeless dialog box in my application.
But, the window for the modeless dialog in the task bar is also seen.

How can i prevent it?

Also, when I resize the application window, I can not change the position of the modeless dialog box, correspondingly.

Simply, I am trying to make the Modeless Dialog box to be a part of my application window.

Please help me,

With Thanks and Rgds,
Arun

[kirants]

May be you want to make the modeless dialog a child of the application window.

[sunkingac]

Yes kirant,

I want the modeless dalog to be a child of application window.

how can it be done?

With thanks,
Arun

[kirants]

Just to give you an idea:

1. Create a sample SDI MFC app.
2. Compile.
3. Now, add a dialog resource , say IDD_DIALOG1
4. Drop an edit box , for e.g.
5. Select the dialog properties, in the styles tab, select style as child, and border as None
6. Save the resource
7. Go to class wizard and add a new class for this dialog, say CMyModelessDlg.
8. open the view class' header file and include the CMyModelessDlg.h
9. Add a member variable to the view class
CMyModelessDlg m_oDlg;
10. Go to class wizard of the View class and add a WM_CREATE handler.
11. In the OnCreate add this:

int CSampviewView::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) 
{
	if (CView::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
		return -1;
	
	// TODO: Add your specialized creation code here
	m_oDlg.Create(IDD_DIALOG1,this);
  m_oDlg.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
	return 0;
}

Hope this helps..

[sunkingac]

Thanks Kirant.
Its work.

With thanks,
Arun

[JohnCz]

To clarify:
If you call Create to cerate modeless dialog and pass pointer to a window, dialog becomes a child of that window only if WS_CHILD style is set.

Otherwise window becomes an owner of a dialog, not a parent.