Message Box being hidden

[braveheartkenya]

Hi all, I have some message boxes that are triggered from some buttons on a dialog. The dialog is set to open in full screen mode. The funny thing is that when the message boxes are triggered they get focus but they go behind my dialog. Any idea why this is happening and how to get the message box on top of the dialog? Thanks in advance.

[includeh10]

MessageBox(....,HWND hWnd). if hWnd is hidden, the message box is hidden also.

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[FarPointer]

Set your dialog as its parent . int MessageBox( HWND hWnd (Set it as your dialog handle), LPCTSTR lpText, LPCTSTR lpCaption, UINT uType ); Regards, FarPointer

[braveheartkenya]

I'm quite new to MFC programming ... how do i make it visible?

[braveheartkenya]

Sorry i'm unfamiliar with how to create or use a handle. Could you please show me how to? Thanks in advance

[FarPointer]

Hi, Please try this out:- m_hWnd :- this is the handle of the dialog MessageBox(m_hWnd,"AM I Working"); Regards, FarPointer

[Gary R Wheeler]

If you are using MFC, you can do the following:

CMyDialog::OnButton()
{
::MessageBox(m_hWnd,
"Your message text goes here",
"Caption for your message box",
(MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION));
}

In this case, CMyDialog is the name of your dialog class, derived from CDialog (which is in turn derived from CWnd). One of the members of all CWnd-derived objects is m_hWnd, which is the window handle.

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[braveheartkenya]

I've just tried m_Hwnd as follows: ::MessageBox(m_hWnd,"This is the LAST record","Last Record",MB_ICONINFORMATION | MB_SYSTEMMODAL); But its still not coming to the front. Could there be something else wrong?

[Ryan Binns]

Kinda off topic... Don't use MB_SYSTEMMODAL unless you absolutely have to. It prevents the user from doing anything else on the computer other than interact with your message box. It's an exceptionally good way to cause extreme frustration and loss of confidence in your product...

Ryan

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[Nibu babu thomas]

braveheartkenya wrote:

::MessageBox(m_hWnd,"This is the LAST record","Last Record",MB_ICONINFORMATION | MB_SYSTEMMODAL);

You can try this one...

MessageBox(_T("This is the LAST record"), _T("Last Record"), MB_ICONINFORMATION | MB_SETFOREGROUND);

Since you are using MFC you don't have to use m_hWnd here. MFC does that for you.

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[braveheartkenya]

Thanks for the information ... i'll sure take it into account

[braveheartkenya]

It didn't work, but i got another that did. Replace the MB_SETFOREGROUND with MB_DEFAULT_DESKTOP_ONLY. I don't know what it means, but it brings it on top and freezes the dialog. Any idea how i can bring it to the front but not freeze the dialog?