Cant seem to change the owner of my dialog

Jeff Lindholm -- JeffL@inter-intelli.com
Friday, December 20, 1996

Environment: VC++ 4.2b, Win 95, NT 4.0

I am creating a dialog in its constructor. I am passing NULL as the
parent in both the CDialog constructor and the Create call. The dialog
has no parent, but is still 'owned' by my main window. This is a pain
since I want to be able to bring the owner's window on top of the child
window. The styles are Popup and Sizable frame. I have tried Overlapped
Window, but to no avail. If anyone has any insights I would appreciate
them.

Thanks
Jeff

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Mike Blaszczak -- mikeblas@nwlink.com
Saturday, December 21, 1996

[Mini-digest: 2 responses]

At 10:54 12/20/96 -0500, Lindholm, Jeff wrote:
>Environment: VC++ 4.2b, Win 95, NT 4.0

>I am creating a dialog in its constructor. I am passing NULL as the
>parent in both the CDialog constructor and the Create call. The dialog
>has no parent, but is still 'owned' by my main window. This is a pain
>since I want to be able to bring the owner's window on top of the child
>window. The styles are Popup and Sizable frame. I have tried Overlapped
>Window, but to no avail. If anyone has any insights I would appreciate
>them.

As the documentation states, NULL means that you want the dialog to be
parented to your application's main window.  If you want it to have no
parent at all, you can do so (effectively) by parenting it to the desktop
window.  See the CWnd::GetDesktopWindow() function.


.B ekiM
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-----From: Marty Fried 

At 10:54 AM 12/20/96 -0500, Lindholm, Jeff wrote:
>Environment: VC++ 4.2b, Win 95, NT 4.0
>
>I am creating a dialog in its constructor. I am passing NULL as the
>parent in both the CDialog constructor and the Create call. The dialog
>has no parent, but is still 'owned' by my main window. This is a pain
>since I want to be able to bring the owner's window on top of the child
>window. The styles are Popup and Sizable frame. I have tried Overlapped
>Window, but to no avail. If anyone has any insights I would appreciate
>them.

With MFC, passing NULL as the parent automatically makes the main window
the parent.  The only way I know to accomplish what you want is to pass
the desktop window as the parent (use GetDesktopWindow function).  You
will have to do a little extra work to make sure the window gets destroyed
correctly, since only descendants of the main window get destroyed automatically.
________________________________
 Marty Fried (mfried@linex.com)
 Marin County, California

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