get name (or class) of parent dialog

[tiziacaia]

I have two dialog: one parent and one child. Can I get the name (or the class) of the parent from the child? thanks a lot

[ThatsAlok]

Really I don't Understand what do you want. if You need to access the class member of parent from child. here is solution In Child Dlg Class ,declare a var which is pointer to Parent Class. like this CParentDlg *m_ParentDlg; and Function GetParentWnd(CParentDlg *m_Wnd) { m_ParentDlg=m_Wnd; } now in Parent Class before calling the Child DLg pass parent pointer mChildDlg.GetParentWnd(this); ///call the domodal or showindow and use m_ParentDlg in your Child class to access info from main parent Dlg ----------------------------- "I Think this Will Help" ----------------------------- Alok Gupta visit me at http://www.thisisalok.tk

[tiziacaia]

Thanks a lot for your answer but i can't use this solution. I try to explain me better (i don't speak english very well). I call the same child dialog from two different parent and i need to know wich is the parent in both the cases. Do you understand what i want? Thanks a lot on more time!

[Blake Miller]

Well, you could always send a registered message to your parent window and it can respond with a different return value depending upon which one it is. Or, you can set a global variable containing the parent window's 'type when the parent is created and then the child can read it. Or you can use GetParent and then call RealGetWindowClass. There are other ways, but these came to mind pretty quickly.

[toxcct]

CString str;
GetParent()->GetWindowText(str);
// The name of the parent's dialog is in the str string.

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[tiziacaia]

thanks a lot everybody!