Dialog as Mainwindow: Problems, help!!!

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2 total messages Started by Nicolai Wadstr|m Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:27

#706

Author: Nicolai Wadstr|m
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:27

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The system (mailer & bbs) I'm working on right now has given me some
troubles... For convinience I use a Dialog as a main window, but this
causes some problems, I can't (or don't know how) to set the icon for 
the window (the windows has a minimize button), and when the application
is started it doesn't get focus! The program windows comes to the foreground
but it does not become the active application!

This is how I call the dialog function:

void    cdecl main (void)
{
  HAB     hab;
  HMQ     hmq;


  hab = WinInitialize(NULL);
  hmq = WinCreateMsgQueue(hab, 0);


   WinDlgBox( HWND_DESKTOP, HWND_DESKTOP, MainDlgWnd, NULL, ID_MAINWND, NULL );

   WinDestroyMsgQueue( hmq );
   WinTerminate( hab );
}


I would be greatfull for any help!


Regards,
          nicolai, nicolai@lysator.liu.se
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Re: Dialog as Mainwindow: Problems, help!!!

#707

Author: Michael Harris
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:47

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nicolai@lysator.liu.se (Nicolai Wadstr|m) writes:

>The system (mailer & bbs) I'm working on right now has given me some
>troubles... For convinience I use a Dialog as a main window, but this
>causes some problems, I can't (or don't know how) to set the icon for 
>the window (the windows has a minimize button), and when the application
>is started it doesn't get focus! The program windows comes to the foreground
>but it does not become the active application!

For the icon... look at WM_SETICON.  You should send this message to the
dialog frame.  (ie from inside the dialog proc, send the message to yourself.)

For the focus problem, are you returning TRUE from WM_INITDLG in your
dialog proc?  Returning TRUE disables the default processing of setting
focus to the first control in your dialog.  If you must return TRUE to
WM_INITDLG, use WinSetFocus to change the focus to a control on the dialog.
If you create the dialog invisible and set the position in your code with
WinSetWindowPos are you specifying SWP_ACTIVATE?

______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
  Vice-President, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State University
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)

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