Hi,

I want to hide/show a group of controls in a dialog box. For this I
thought it would be nice to have several dialog child boxes and than I
could hide or show that dialog easily.

How can I create and show a dialog box in another dialog box ?

Thanks in advance,

Devrim.

You might find this article interesting.  It's not exactly what you're
asking, but it might help you do what you're trying to do.

http://www.codeguru.com/controls/enable_control_grp.shtml

This article is also interesting.

Tom

Oops.  sticky fingers...

http://www.codeguru.com/dialog/StackDialog.shtml

Tom

There are a couple approaches. The easiest one is to simply have a function
void CMyDialog::ShowControls(BOOL mode)
   {
    UINT show = mode ? SW_SHOW : SW_HIDE;
    c_StartButton.ShowWindow(show);
    c_Result.ShowWindow(show);
    c_Notification.ShowWIndow(show);
    ... etc.
   }

where the c_ variables are control member variables representing the windows (see my essay
on Avoiding GetDlgItem on my MVP Tips site).

Another approach is to group the controls either within a group box or a static frame (the
static frame could be invisible), and then do

void CMyDialog::ShowControls(BOOL mode, CWnd * enclosing)
   {
    CRect r;
    enclosing->GetWindowRect(&r);
    ScreenToClient(&r);

    for(CWnd * wnd = GetWindow(GW_CHILD); wnd != NULL; wnd = wnd->GetWindow(GW_HWNDNEXT))
     {
      CRect c;
      UINT show = mode ? SW_SHOW : SW_HIDE;
      wnd->GetWindowRect(&c);
      ScreenToClient(&c);
      CPoint pt(c.left, c.top);
      if(r.PtInRect(c))
         {
          wnd->ShowWindow(show);
         }
   }

You can now disable a group of controls by passing in the window reference for the
enclosing window, e.g.,
        ShowControls(FALSE, &c_Caption);
will disable all controls whose top left corner is contained entirely within the window
referenced by c_Caption.

Note that if the focus was on any control that has just been hidden, you should move it
(there was an earlier post on this topic, a trick I had forgotten)
                        joe

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