Question

How do I disable all the controls in a dialog window ? I know I could use
EnableWindow(FALSE);
but this doesnt seem like a good idea because now there is no way for the user to click “Ok” or “Cancel” button or press the “X” icon to exit. The dialog is like frozen.

What I am looking for is a way to disable all the controls in a dialog while providing some way for a user to exit.

Another solution is to do it manually by going through all the dialog controls and disabling them but this gets tedious. Any easy way ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Sorry, but going through all of the controls and disabling each of them is the easy way.

You can write a general function to do this using EnumChildWindows or using a loop calling GetWindow(… GW_HWNDNEXT) until it returns NULL for the next window.

Just remember to skip disabling the window that has the IDCANCEL as the id.