Thread: Windows moving together.

I have two windows that I want to stay next to each other when they are moved.
I have an idea how to do it but I have encountered a few problems. If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or has a better idea how to do it please feel free to let me know.

I created an event function for whenever the main window's position changes.
Whevever it changes I want the second window to follow the main one to it's new coordinates by used SetWindowPos().

Code:

void CFXBOXDlg::OnWindowPosChanged(WINDOWPOS* lpwndpos)
{
	CDialog::OnWindowPosChanged(lpwndpos);

	// TODO: Add your message handler code here

	m_dialogX = 0; // I want to insert the coordinates into these variables
	m_dialogY = 0;
	
	CWnd * apptr = FindWindow(0, "Guitar FX BOX 2.6"); //gets handle to main window

	apptr->SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost, m_dialogX, m_dialogY, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE); //sets the second window to its new position
}

I want to send the SetWindowPos() the new coordinates of the window but I havent had any luck figuring of how to get them.

Also, even if I were to get the coordinates, everytime the window moves it puts focus on the second window when SetWindowPos() is triggered. This means I can move the main window by little steps at a time and it's very annoying.

I found out how to get the coordinates... I don't know if anyone knows how to fix my second problem...

Code:

  
m_dialogX = lpwndpos->x;
m_dialogY = lpwndpos->y;

I'll probably end up setting the window to snap when I let go of the left mouse button.

Couldn't you just create a window with 2 child windows?

I know there's a win32 function, SetFocus(HWND hwnd) that sets the focus to a particular window. There should be an MFC equivalent.

Originally Posted by The Almighty MSDN article about CWnd::SetWindowPos ([url

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc_cwnd.3a3a.setwindowpos.asp)][/url]
nFlags
Specifies sizing and positioning options. This parameter can be a combination of the following:
...
SWP_NOACTIVATE Does not activate the window. If this flag is not set, the window is activated and moved to the top of either the topmost or the nontopmost group (depending on the setting of the pWndInsertAfter parameter).

should work. so you would say

Code:

apptr->SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost, m_dialogX, m_dialogY, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE);