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From: [e-mail] (Denis Terberg 283-8245)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Borland C++ OWL; want hybrid of MDI child and Dialog box
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Date: 26 Dec 92 21:37:15 GMT
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I want to create an MDI child window with some (but not all)
of the properties of a Dialog Box.

The desired features are:
* create from a resource
  (ie: use CreateDialog() )
* events pre-processed by a Dialog Box Procedure,
  instead of a window procedure
  (ie: use DefDlgProc)
* can be tiled/minimized/etc inside MDI Frame
  (ie: make it a child of the MDI Frame)

However, I do NOT want the window to have any of the following
properties:
* modal
  (ie: set TDialog::IsModal = FALSE)
* can be dragged out of MDI Frame window
  (how do you prevent this??)
* remains in front of all other windows
  (how do you prevent this??)

The best I've been able to do is make an MDI Child window which
creates a dialog window in it's client area.  This looks exactly
like what I want, and has all the desired functionality, but
I can't help thinking that the same should be possible with only
one window, instead of two.

Any suggestions?

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