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Dear Support,

I have a dialog application with controls and group-boxes.

I have a control that I create in my code (not in the resource editor).
When I place it inside a group-box it flickers.
In the FAQ you solve this problem with changing the tab order, but this control does not exist in the resource editor, because it is only created at run time.

Regards,
Ron.

You can change the tab order programmatically. Since version 2.80 there is a SubclassChildControls() global function which can be used for subclassing standard controls with Prof-UIS controls. This function also eliminates the problem of a wrong tab order for the controls used in CExtGroupBox. You can fix only the tab order using the following method

void FixGroupBoxesOrder( HWND hWndParent ) 
{ 
            if(                     hWndParent == NULL 
                        ||           (!::IsWindow( hWndParent )) 
                        ) 
                        return;  
  
            HWND hWnd = ::GetWindow( hWndParent, GW_CHILD ); 
            HWND hWndLast = NULL; 
            
            CDWordArray arrGroupBoxes; 
            while( hWnd != NULL )  
            { 
                        TCHAR szCompare[512] = _T(""); 
                        ::GetClassName( 
                                    hWnd, 
                                    szCompare, 
                                    sizeof( szCompare ) / sizeof( szCompare[0] ) 
                                    ); 
                        if( _tcsicmp( szCompare, _T("BUTTON") ) == 0 ) 
                        { 
                                    #ifdef BS_TYPEMASK 
                                                ASSERT( BS_TYPEMASK == 0x0000000FL ); 
                                    #endif 
                                                DWORD dwWndStyle = (DWORD)::GetWindowLong( hWnd, GWL_STYLE ); 
                                                if( ( dwWndStyle & 0x0000000FL ) == BS_GROUPBOX ) 
                                                            arrGroupBoxes.Add( DWORD( hWnd ) ); 
                        } 
                        hWndLast = hWnd; 
                        hWnd = ::GetWindow( hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT );  
            } 
  
            if(                     hWndLast != NULL 
                        &&        arrGroupBoxes.GetSize() > 0 
                        ) 
            { 
                        // move all the group boxes to the back by changing the tab order at runtime 
                        HWND hWndPrev = hWndLast; 
                        while( arrGroupBoxes.GetSize() > 0 ) 
                        { 
                                    HWND hWnd = (HWND) arrGroupBoxes.GetAt( 0 ); 
                                    if(                     hWnd != NULL 
                                                &&        ::IsWindow( hWnd ) 
                                                ) 
                                    { 
                                                ::SetWindowPos( 
                                                            hWnd, 
                                                            hWndPrev, 
                                                            0,0, 
                                                            0,0, 
                                                            SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE 
                                                            ); 
                                                hWndPrev = hWnd; 
                                    } 
                                    arrGroupBoxes.RemoveAt( 0 ); 
                        } 
            } 
} 

Thanks.
Problem solved...