Igor Delovski Board

[Jean Jacques]

Raymond: The dialog class goes under the sneaky name WC_DIALOG

"An anonymous commenter wanted to know how to create a dialog box
with CreateWindow. The window class for dialog boxes is WC_DIALOG. I'm
not quite sure why anybody would want to create a dialog box this way, but
there you have it."

[Ho Ho]

How to Set Your Own Support Information in System Properties - Win XP, 2k, 98, ME

"This tips is very useful for those who are running computer store or
support business. It teach you how to set your own support information in
Microsoft Windows System Properties."

[delovski]

How do I wait until my dialog box is displayed before doing something?

"The customer discovered that displaying the nested dialog box in
response to the WM_INITDIALOG message was premature, because as we
all know, the WM_INITDIALOG is sent before the dialog box is displayed.
The question therefore is, 'How do I want until my dialog box is displayed
before doing something?' "

[delovski]

Answer to yesterday's post: Waiting until the dialog box is displayed before doing something

"Many window messages are notifications which are delivered while the
operation is still in progress. You do not want to display new UI while
handling those notifications because that holds up the completion of the
original UI operation that generated the notification in the first place. Posting
a message to yourself to complete the user interaction after the original
operation has stabilized is the standard solution."

[Harrod]

Links to Raymond Chen's Dialog Manager Series, published March and April 2005:

The dialog manager, part 1 - 9

He, He!

[Mambo 5]

How do I prevent multi-line edit controls from eating the Enter key?

"As we saw quite some time ago, a control responds to the WM_GETDLGCODE
message to influence the behavior of the dialog manager."

[delovski]

Bizarre: Problem with GetOpenFileName() on Win XP SP2

"The second time time the dialog is executed the application will unexpectedly
close when the "hint" window pops up after hovering the mouse over a file. "

[delovski]

Raymond Chen: Make sure you disable the correct window for modal UI

"Both of the problems boiled down to somebody passing a child window
as the hwndParent and the code doing manual modal UI failing to convert
this window to a top-level window. As a result, when they did the
EnableWindow(hwndParent, FALSE), they disabled a child window, leaving
the top-level window enabled."

[delovski]

Strange arangement, but interesting all the same:

Tabbing in modeless dialog that is a child of a modal dialog

"Now I want to be able to tab between the controls on the modeless
dialog. But that does not work. "

[Ike]

CodeGuru: SW_HIDE

"I have SW_HIDE to hide the dialog window when it is launched. But the
thing is it always flashes for a second before it hides. How to get ride of
the flashing everything it open in hidden mode?"

[Ike]

CodeGuru: Task Dialogs in Vista

"How many times have you come across a situation where you have a
message box pop up with some text in it and three buttons: Yes, No, and
Cancel. Have you ever been stumped by the options, trying to figure out
what the difference was with selecting No versus selecting Cancel? Well, I
have had to scratch my head on numerous occasions where a MessageBox
simply wasn't conveying the right message. Finally, Windows Vista seems
to have an answer to this."

[delovski]

RC: Don't be helpless: I don't know anything about MFC modal loops,
but unlike some people, I'm not afraid to find out

"But let's look at the question another way, which is my point for today:
You have the MFC source code. Don't be afraid to read it."

[delovski]

RC: Those who do not understand the dialog manager are doomed to reimplement it, badly

"In this case, we want to prevent the edit control from saying "Give me the Tab
key." We saw last time that this is done either by (1) setting the DLGC_WANTTAB
dialog code or by (2) responding with DLGC_WANTMESSAGE when given a Tab
key message. "