How to set the tab order of dynamically inserted items? 1

[apostolchopov]

Hello, guys!
Could you tell me how to set the tab order of dynamically inserted controls in a CDialog object?
I am trying to insert several CEdit and CComboBox controls into a CDialog dynamically but I could not manage the tab order of these control. I suppose the tab order could be managed in CDialog::OnInitDialog() method... Or in some static variables...
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

Ragards!

 

[cdraycott]

apostolchopov,

You need to use the following functions to change the Z-Order which changes the tab order:

BeginDeferWindowPos
DeferWindowPos
EndDeferWindowPos

An example is shown below where m_CtrlOne is positioned before m_CtrlTwo and two before 3 etc.

HDWP hdwp = BeginDeferWindowPos( 3 );

DeferWindowPos( hdwp,
m_CtrlOne.GetSafeHwnd(),
HWND_TOP,
0,
0,
0,
0,
SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE );

DeferWindowPos( hdwp,
m_CtrlTwo.GetSafeHwnd(),
m_CtrlOne.GetSafeHwnd(),
0,
0,
0,
0,
SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE );

DeferWindowPos( hdwp,
m_CtrlThree.GetSafeHwnd(),
m_CtrlTwo.GetSafeHwnd(),
0,
0,
0,
0,
SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE );

EndDeferWindowPos( hdwp );