child windows

how can i create a child window in Win32 API?
is it possible with CreateWindowEx() ?

Please take the time to read through the material referenced when you first asked this question.

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But the short answer is, yes, you can.

Create the window with the WS_CHILD style and set the hWndParent, to the child window's Parent.

yea it works now, thanks for the help =)

I have another problem:
i want to pass the handle of the main window to a function, but not a copy of the handle - the handle itself.

Code:

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void foo(HWND hwnd)
{
    DisableWindow(hwnd, FALSE);
}


HWND hwndMain;
foo(hwndMain);

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but the disable just won't work. i tried to get a reference to the handle:

Code:

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void foo(HWND& hwnd);

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but it doesn't work either.

what's the solution?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by hiya

Code:

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void foo(HWND hwnd)
{
    DisableWindow(hwnd, FALSE);
}


HWND hwndMain;
foo(hwndMain);

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This code dose what you would expect, the function DisableWindow is called on the window handle passed to the function named foo. I'm not aware of a windows function named DisableWindow did you mean to use EnableWindow?

oops yea, i meant enable.
well, the function really work :o but it's not exactly how i do it, thought it will work the same.
anyway, here's my code more or less:

Code:

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class Wnd
{
    protected:
          HWND hwnd;
          HWND hwndParent;
    public:
          Wnd(HWND hParent):hwndParent(hParent) {}
          void foo()
          {
              EnableWindow(hwndParent, FALSE);
          }
}

Wnd obj(hwndMain);
obj.foo();

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and this isn't working... why?

Probably because hwndMain/hwndParent isn't a valid window handle - what does IsWindow have to say about it?

hwndMain is a valid window handle and hwndParent\hParent isn't.
why is that? it works in any function but in a class...

found my problem: i created that object before i created a window for the hwndMain :D
thanks