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In article <1992Dec17.084656.6252@desire.wright.edu> rocker@desire.wright.edu writes:

>In article <4748@execu.execu.com>, kevin@execu.execu.com (Kevin English)
> writes:
>> 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.
>
>        Am I missing somethine?  How would IsDialogMesssage() lock out other
>windos?
>

IsDialogMessage() does NOT lock out other windows - what it does is to
give you the standard keyboard interface that a dialog box gets "for free" -
eg, TAB moving between controls, etc.

Chris
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