Question

Okay, so I will admit I have no knowledge of windows API or even MFC.

I’ve got an error window popping up when things go hairy (illegal character in a filename string) and I want the error box to be modal.

For the life of me I can’t figure out why it crashes when it hits doModal.

Here is the code where I think this can be fixed. This code is in the event handler of a button in the main window.

CDialog *BadFileD = new CDialog();
BadFileD->Create(IDD_STATUS, this); 
BadFileD->DoModal();

Am I just being borderline retarded?

Answer 1

For display modal dialog you should use DoModal method only

CDialog *BadFileD = new CDialog(IDD_STATUS, this);
BadFileD->DoModal();

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