hey,
I have an application where I needed to create a multiple child windows,
these windows don't really fit into the doc/view logic so I didn't want to
use MDI to accomplish this.
what I did was simply create child windows to the main window (using
WS_CHILD style).

the child windows display weird behavior:
clicking their client area doesn't bring them forward (clicking their nc
area does),
their title never has the active blue color (even though the receive input
with out a problem),
the child windows are created without a menu (even though they're loaded
with one),
the child windows are create in 0x0 size,
the child windows are create in in the back of all other windows, instead of
in front.

when ever I try creating the windows that give me trouble with out the
WS_CHILD style the problems disappear.

am I not supposed to create child windows this way?
am I leaving something out?