Thread: get handle modal dialog

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    get handle modal dialog

    how do you get a handle to a modal dialog from outside of the dialogs procedure?

    I need to be able to send messages to it.

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    Is this dialog part of your application? If so, just save its handle into a global variable, or into a data structure you have access to. Otherwise, you can use FindWindow.

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    Sometimes accessing a modal dialog is not that easy (ie in MFC using DoModal() ) as the dialog (DoModal call) does not return until the dialog has closed.

    I find it easier to set a global variable (or local to the object that wants to send it messages, the 'caller').

    I do this in the dialogs init or create message. May require you to send in a pointer to the 'caller'. This can be done by modifing the dialogs constructor.

    Usually if you want the application to interact with the dialog, a modeless dialog is used.
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    I agree with novacain, better to use a modeless for true interaction with a program. It seems more suited to actually interacting with a dialog than with the more "static" dialog.

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