dialog boxes

Using MFC or oldschool C style Win32?

I don''t know anything about MFC, so I suppose I''m going Win32 route. I have made a resource and call the dialog with DialogBox(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_DIALOG1),
NULL, (DLGPROC)MainDialogProc);

Your DialogProc gets the same messages a normal window does (because it is a window).

So you could:

1) use SetCapture() and similar to treat the cursor as exclusive

2) respond to WM_NCHITTEST with HTCLIENT to trick Windows into thinking that any clicks on the border, title bar etc are actually inside the window.

3) respond to WM_SYSCOMMAND for things like SC_MOVE and SC_SIZE

4) respond to similar messages that might interfere with your dialog.


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Simon O''Connor
ex -Creative Asylum
Programmer &
Microsoft MVP

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Original post by S1CA
respond to WM_NCHITTEST with HTCLIENT to trick Windows into thinking that any clicks on the border, title bar etc are actually inside the window.

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Seconded.

For the other question, make a handler for WM_INITDIALOG. In it, set the focus to the desired control, then return FALSE.

how would I set the focus to that control though?

SetFocus(GetDlgItem(hWnd, IDC_PASSWORD));
(where ''hWnd'' is the first parameter to the DialogProc, and IDC_PASSWORD is the identifier of the edit box)