Question

I’m trying to set something up so my main dialog has one or more child dialogs, and these are glued/docked to the outside of the main dialog – when the main dialog is minimised, the children are too, when main dialog moves, children move with it.

I’d tried setting child dialogs as having main dialog CWnd as parent, with CHILD style. But then they get clipped by the parent’s boundary. If I set them as POPUP, they can be outside but then don’t move with the parent.

I’m looking at putting an OnMove handler on the parent dialog, but is there something built-in? And, should child dialogs still be children of the main dialog… I assume they should?

This is VS2005 (I think VS2008 has some related functionality so I mention this).

Answer 1

You need to implement the movement manually when they are popups, and yes they should be popups otherwise they will be clipped out.