Modeless dialog behind main window 1

[philrosenberg]

Hi,
I'm fairly new to programming for windows and am having some trouble with modeless dialogs.
I've created and shown a modeless dialog, but when the main application is given the focus it moves in front of the dialog wheras I want the dialog to stay in front, also the dialog box has its own button on the status bar, which I don't want.

I am declaring the dialog as a public variable in the view class

public:
CTestDlg m_DlgTest;

then creating the dialog in the View constructor

CProgramView::CProgramView()
{
m_DlgTest.Create(IDD_TEST, this);
m_DlgTest.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
}

Any ideas anyone?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Phil

 

[B00gyeMan]

Use the SetWindowPos method, with the second parameter set to HWND_TOPMOST

(MSDN: "Places the window above all non-topmost windows. The window maintains its topmost position even when it is deactivated.")

Prototype:

BOOL SetWindowPos(HWND hWnd, HWND hWndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, UINT uFlags );