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Hello

I’ve trying to create a dialog in a controlbar, i’ve followed the SDI example but cant get it to work. The bar is created ok, but the dialog is not shown.

    if(    !m_wndSearchBar.Create(
            "Searchbar",
            this,
            ID_VIEW_SEARCHBAR
            )
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndSearchBar\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }
    if(    !m_wndSearchDlg.Create(IDD_SEARCH, &m_wndSearchBar) )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndSearchDlg\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

Just a stupid remark (I’m not tech sup, but I thought I’d pitch in if I could help).

I needed to add a <yourWindow>.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW); statement for some of my encapsulated windows to show up.

Also, you might want to delete your registry configuration often while you write your code. Most of the sample apps save all of their GUI status in the windows registry, so while you’re developing and adding windows, your code may be ’reverting’ your code changes by loading your last GUI setup from the registry.

The following lines are responsible for loading the GUI stat from the regs, I’d comment them out while you’re adding/modifying the GUI.

CExtControlBar::ProfileBarStateLoad(this,pApp->m_pszRegistryKey,pApp->m_pszProfileName,pApp->m_pszProfileName,&m_dataFrameWP);

and the following lines load back GUI customization features back up:

m_customSite.CustomizeStateLoad(pApp->m_pszRegistryKey,pApp->m_pszProfileName,pApp->m_pszProfileName);

Cheers!

Guillaume.

Mkay. I thought that ShowWindow were handled by the library since it’s not used in the sample, but I’ll try that + cleaning the reg =)

thanks

Dear Jonas,

Mr. Guillaume gave a good piece of advice. Besides, please verify the following when creating child dialogs:

• Any dialog resource has the Dialog Type property which should be set to Child (not Popup)
• The Visible property of your dialog resource should be set to true

hehe... it was that simple! :) Thanks!