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mike
mike

Reputation: 561

Windows C++ child window unresponsive

Using mixed managed/unmanaged C++ (Visual Studio 2008) I'm opening a windows form child window from a DirectX application. Weird stuff indeed, but it works, mostly. If I use showDialog() the child window works perfectly, but obviously the main app stops running (until the child is closed). If I use show() life is good, but the child has subtle issues. A textbox works and accepts input for example, but you can no longer use the Tab key to move to different controls. Mnemonics (Alt+hotkey) have stopped working as well.

I'm a huge keyboard shortcut fan, so this is very annoying. To make it worse, I'm not even sure how to Google this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 154

Answers (1)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 35613

To resolve the tabbing problem either use a separate thread to create the dialog and call showDialog(), or call IsDialogMessage in your main message loop.

Upvotes: 1

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