Create win32 modal child window

led mike

snir_ya wrote:

What is the best way to implement a modal child window in win32?

"Best" meaning "New and improved"? Or the "Best" because it has a 30 day money back guarantee?

led mike

snir_ya

(-: "Best" as the most "lean and mean". No body guarentees anythings nowadays. Sheer advise, my friend. Sheer advise.

led mike

snir_ya wrote:

"Best" as the most "lean and mean".

"Lean and mean" code as in development/maintenance overhead or runtime performance? Never mind I have lost interest now since it has taken you at a minimum three posts to explain your request.

led mike

snir_ya

Intresring - i've followed each and every commandment stated in Chris Maunder's "How to get an answer to your question" and yet i'm being bullyied by a clown. Cheers mate. Chris - please revoke Mike's code project ribon.

CPallini

snir_ya wrote:

ntresring - i've followed each and every commandment stated in Chris Maunder's "How to get an answer to your question"

Perhaps you missed point 2. :)

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David Crow

snir_ya wrote:

...modal child window...

:confused: Could you be a tad less discrete, or perhaps provide an example of what you are after?

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

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led mike

snir_ya wrote:

i've followed each and every commandment stated in Chris Maunder's "How to get an answer to your question"

Really you consider your original post to be "specific"? In that case you might want to consider this[^].

led mike

CPallini

In the pink, today? :laugh:

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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Mark Salsbery

modal like a modal dialog? If so, that means the user must dismiss the window before (s)he can do anything else. To do that, 1) disable other windows 2) create the window 3) run a message loop until the modal window is closed/dismissed 4) enable other windows 5) destroy the modal window Mark

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led mike

CPallini wrote:

In the pink, today?

Maybe, but some of these goons make it as easy as falling off a log[^].

led mike

CPallini

I would swap (4) with (5), but maybe I'm wrong.

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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Mark Salsbery

Either way...whichever way is most pleasing to the user. All the repaints resulting in the destruction and re-enabling will determine that I suppose :) Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

snir_ya

Thank you so much Mark. You're answer is prudent and accurate. I must say that I have begun to doubt my coherency during this thread. There's an obvious correlation between one's willingness to help and his understanding of the question.