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Article #1969Re: 'model' window?
From: Kevin English
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:02
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:02
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In article <1992Dec15.172737.6229@desire.wright.edu> rocker@desire.wright.edu writes: > > I have a window, actually as descendant of a fairly complex window, >act like a dialog, ie. lock out all other windows and menuu, aka 'model', but >not system model. > > I'm using TPW 1.0 (damm purchasing dept.) and OWL and any ideas are >welcomed. > Dave Edson wrote an excelent article in the Oct. Microsoft Systems Journal : "Dave's Top Ten List of Tricks Hints, and Techniques for Programming in Windows" - One of his tricks covered just this. In summarry if you process the messages destined for this window with IsDialogMessage() just as if the window were a modeless dialog, presto, your window will have dialog like behavior.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!kevin From: kevin@execu.execu.com (Kevin English) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Subject: Re: 'model' window? Message-ID: <4748@execu.execu.com> Date: 16 Dec 92 23:02:32 GMT References: <1992Dec15.172737.6229@desire.wright.edu> Organization: Execucom Systems Corp Lines: 17