How to make a window modal

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From: Martin Golm
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:27

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Moving off of OWL I created my own window class hierarchy. Everything
works okay for now, but I have not yet figured out one thing: how to
make a window modal.
Lets say, I'd like to create a print preview window, or some kind of an
options dialog. Of course, such kind of windows should be modal. How can
this be done? Simply by adding a
GetMessage/TranslateMessage/DispatchMessage-loop like the following?

void tPrintPreview :: ShowModal()
{
  Show(); //base class' Show() 
  MSG msg;
  while (::GetMessage(&msg, 0, 0, 0))
  {
    ::TranslateMessage(&msg);
    ::DispatchMessage(&msg);
  }
}

Is it just this? If not, how else to do it?


Thanks in advance,
Martin

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