buttons won't work when in child window!?

i'm creating an app, and so far i have the main window, and a child window wich will contain buttons, tools, etc.....i have two buttons in the child window, and they don't seem to be recieving input......if i move them into the main window, they work fine (when i say work, i mean when you click on them, they 'push' in)

heres the code if anyone needs to look at it:

Code:

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// Includes

#include <windows.h>
#include "menu.h"

// Function Declarations

LRESULT CALLBACK
WndProc( HWND hWnd, UINT message,
WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam );

// WinMain

int WINAPI
WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int iCmdShow )
{
WNDCLASS wc;
WNDCLASS tb;
HWND hWnd;
HDC hDC;
MSG msg;
BOOL bQuit = FALSE;

// register window class
wc.style = CS_OWNDC;
wc.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
wc.hInstance = hInstance;
wc.hIcon = LoadIcon( NULL, IDI_APPLICATION );
wc.hCursor = LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_ARROW );
wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject( GRAY_BRUSH );
wc.lpszMenuName = "MAIN";
wc.lpszClassName = "Main";
RegisterClass( &wc );

//register tool box
tb.style = CS_OWNDC;
tb.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
tb.cbClsExtra = 0;
tb.cbWndExtra = 0;
tb.hInstance = hInstance;
tb.hIcon = LoadIcon( NULL, IDI_APPLICATION );
tb.hCursor = LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_ARROW );
tb.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject( LTGRAY_BRUSH );
tb.lpszMenuName = NULL;
tb.lpszClassName = "ToolBox";
RegisterClass( &tb );


// create main window
hWnd = CreateWindow(
"Main", "IGM | Insomniac Game Maker",
WS_TILEDWINDOW | WS_POPUPWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE,
0, 0, 800, 570,
NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL );

//create tool box
HWND tool_box;
tool_box = CreateWindow(
"ToolBox", "Tools",
WS_CHILD | WS_BORDER | WS_VISIBLE,
592, 0, 200, 516,
hWnd, NULL, hInstance, NULL );

//create buttons
HWND button;
button = CreateWindow("BUTTON", "Sprites", WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | BS_PUSHBUTTON, 616, 40, 64, 24, hWnd,(HMENU) 10, (HINSTANCE) GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_HINSTANCE), NULL);
button = CreateWindow("BUTTON", "Objects", WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | BS_PUSHBUTTON, 706, 40, 64, 24, hWnd,(HMENU) 20, (HINSTANCE) GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_HINSTANCE), NULL);

BOOL EnableWindow(HWND button, BOOL bEnable);

// program main loop
while ( !bQuit ) {

// check for messages
if ( PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE ) ) {

// handle or dispatch messages
if ( msg.message == WM_QUIT ) {
bQuit = TRUE;
} else {
TranslateMessage( &msg );
DispatchMessage( &msg );
}

}

}


// destroy the window explicitly
DestroyWindow( hWnd );

return msg.wParam;

}

// Window Procedure

LRESULT CALLBACK
WndProc( HWND hWnd, UINT message,
WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam )
{

switch ( message ) {

case WM_CREATE:
return 0;

case WM_CLOSE:
PostQuitMessage( 0 );
return 0;

case WM_DESTROY:
return 0;

case WM_KEYDOWN:
switch ( wParam ) {

case VK_ESCAPE:
PostQuitMessage( 0 );
return 0;

}
return 0;

default:
return DefWindowProc( hWnd,
message, wParam, lParam );

}

}

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thanks ahead of time
-psychopath

lol......ok seriously now...can anyone help?

OK, seriously, you need to post your code with some semblance of formatting! Surely, that is not how your code actually looks!?
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If you want your buttons to be children of the tool box, you should specify their parent as tool_box rather that hWnd. At the moment tool_box and the buttons are all children of hWnd and that may cause problems as they overlap.
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Unless you have a very good reason, you should not use a PeekMessage() message loop.
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It is somewhat unusual to see a function re-prototyped in the middle of WinMain().

Code:

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BOOL EnableWindow(HWND button, BOOL bEnable);

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yupp.....that is how my code looks :P
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i replaced hWnd with tool_box and the buttons dissapeared!?
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that is there because it was there in the dev-c++ template
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entered that bit of code to see if prehaps the buttons wern't enabled

-psychopath

When you create a window its coordinates must be relative to its parents.

Code:

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616, 40, 64, 24,

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So, with these coordinates the buttons are being created off the edge of the toolbox as the toolbox is less than 616 wide.
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Your message loop should look like:

Code:

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while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
    TranslateMessage(&msg);
    DispatchMessage(&msg);
}

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ok....got it workin now....THANX!

-psychopath