Thread: recources question

When you say dialog based resource do you mean a single ctrl OR a whole dialog you made in the resource editor?

For a single ctrl use CreateWindow(), sepecify the HMENU as the ID (#define one) and its msg's will be sent to the callback of the parent HWND param.

For a dialog, create it and use SetWindowPos() hiding it when not needed. Create it with out the system menu and I would make it a child of the main depending on if it needs a seperate callback.

Is that what you want?

also, make sure the dialog is modeless!!!

The first param is the HWND of the dialog you want to move

Say we have a main window (MainHwnd is its HWND)
On it a frame ctrl or similar has been placed called IDC_FRAME. Or divide up the area as you need.
Our dialog to place in the frame has DIALOGhWnd returned when we created it.

Code:

//find the WHOLE dimensions of the dialog to move
GetWindowRect(DIALOGhWnd,&DLG_Rect);
iWidthDlg=DLG_Rect.right-DLG_Rect.left;
iHeightDlg=DLG_Rect.bottom-DLG_Rect.top;
//find where to put it in the frame
FRAMEhWnd=GetDlgItem(hMainWnd,IDC_FRAME);
GetClientRect(FRAMEhWnd,&FRAME_Rect);
//place at top left corner of frame
SetWindowPos(DIALOGhWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, FRAME_Rect.left, FRAME_Rect.top, iWidthDlg, iHeightDlg, 0);

Should check to see if fits eg iWidthDlg<FRAME_Rect.right-FRAME_Rect.left;

HWND hDlg;//handle to dialog
HWND hFrame;//handle to frame ctrl
#define IDC_FRAME 10001//set up resource ID#
int iMargin=10;//extra distance from edge of main window (for appearance)

Code:

GetWindowRect(hDlg,&DlgRect);//sometimes client rect works better
//create an invisible frame for the dlg
hFrame=CreateWindow("Static",NULL,WS_CHILD,
       DlgRect.left+iMargin,DlgRect.top+iMargin,
       DlgRect.right-DlgRect.left+iMargin ,DlgRect.bottom-DlgRect.top+iMargin,
       hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_FRAME,hInst,NULL);
//set the dlg to the frame and make sure it is on the top and visible
SetWindowPos(hDlg,HWND_TOPMOST,
       DlgRect.left+iMargin,DlgRect.top+iMargin,
       DlgRect.right-DlgRect.left+iMargin ,DlgRect.bottom-DlgRect.top+iMargin,
       SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_DRAWFRAME);

Now you have to stop it being moved, but that is another story.