closing a CDialog from the spawning parent

[nss]

Not quite sure about this. I create a modeless dialog in my MDI View class. Now at the click of a menu item I want this window to go away , and be completely gone from memory. If I just do a pMyDlg->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) wont do away with it. SO how do I achieve this? I could delete the pointer after SW_HIDE but is that the way one does these things? Or should some message be sent to the CDialog?

[Gary R Wheeler]

Use pMyDlg->DestroyWindow(). DestroyWindow() sends a WM_DESTROY message to the dialog, among other things. That's the legit way to close down a modeless dialog from 'outside' the dialog. Since you used a pointer, I'll assume somewhere you have code like:

pMyDlg = new MyDlgClass(...);

If that's the case, you will still need to do this:

delete pMyDlg;

somewhere. If you are doing this, you could have the MyDlgClass destructor call DestroyWindow(). With that, you could just do the delete pMyDlg, and the destructor would close down the dialog for you.

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Software Zen: delete this;

[nss]

Exactly what I nneded to know, esp calling DEstroyWindow() in the destructor....many thanks