Child windows can’t get their messages

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   Hi,
I'm trying to work with Command Bars, and ...
As you know CXTPControlCustom::CreateControlCustom method gets a CWnd* and shows it in as the content of the command bar control.
I wanted to create a complex command bar control, including an EditBox and a CSliderCtrl which the EditBox shows the silder's current position's.
So I created a dialog box (CDialog inherited class) and put an EditBox and a slider in it. Then I put it in a command bar control and showed it. And then there it was, nice and clean, but with a problem.
The problem, which I can't pass it by easily, is that the EditBox and slider can't get windows messages!! I mean I can't silde the silder and can't type anything in the EditBox. After spending some times, I realized that if I set the CFrameWnd (CommandBar's container) as the parent window of the silder (instead of dialog) it will get the messages but it's not in the dialog window anymore, which is not acceptable.
So can I have a window, with child windows in it, as a command bar control?
If it matters, I'm using the 9.6 version.
Thanks,
Mehran Ziadloo

Edited by mehran20

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mehran20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 September 2005 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote mehran20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Child windows can’t get their messages Posted: 19 October 2005 at 8:17am
	Hi, I'm trying to work with Command Bars, and ... As you know CXTPControlCustom::CreateControlCustom method gets a CWnd* and shows it in as the content of the command bar control. I wanted to create a complex command bar control, including an EditBox and a CSliderCtrl which the EditBox shows the silder's current position's. So I created a dialog box (CDialog inherited class) and put an EditBox and a slider in it. Then I put it in a command bar control and showed it. And then there it was, nice and clean, but with a problem. The problem, which I can't pass it by easily, is that the EditBox and slider can't get windows messages!! I mean I can't silde the silder and can't type anything in the EditBox. After spending some times, I realized that if I set the CFrameWnd (CommandBar's container) as the parent window of the silder (instead of dialog) it will get the messages but it's not in the dialog window anymore, which is not acceptable. So can I have a window, with child windows in it, as a command bar control? If it matters, I'm using the 9.6 version. Thanks, Mehran Ziadloo Edited by mehran20

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 October 2005 at 8:38am
	Can't reproduce problem. See sample: 2005-10-19_083838_cc.zip
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

mehran20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 September 2005 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote mehran20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 October 2005 at 11:33pm
	First of all thank you for your sample project. That's strange because my code is exactly like yours but it's frozen!! After some another time that I spend, I realized that my window is disabled. So I tried to enable it by EnableWindow(TRUE), but it didn't work. The only way I could enable my window was to put the EnableWindow(TRUE) in the OnWndMsg method of my dialog!! Which means that my window was getting disabled all the time. Do you know what is happening? Thanks again, Mehran Ziadloo