Re: Main dialog window always remains behind other dialogs: how can I change this?

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You could use a CFormViews for rather than dialogs and have them all in the
same frame using a splitter window, or, if you want them to float you could
make them in separate frame frames or control bars and dock them.

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-d/docking/
http://www.codeproject.com/docking/

Tom
"Ivan Vecerina" <INVALID_use_webform@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: Because he wants the dialogs to be able to
: appear *under* their parent window, which is
: not supported unless the parent is NULL, and
: you can't create a dialog with a NULL parent
: using MFC mechanisms. And, it actually is a
: bad idea to have dialogs with NULL parents.

Thing is, I actually have document windows which I just happen
to be loading as "dialogs" so that I can load the layout of
part of the window from a resource resource (has a few entry
fields...).

So is there a standard mechanism that I can use to have multiple
top-level windows in an application ?

I'm talking about something à la MS Word 2003, or internet explorer.
I don't think that this is such a weird design...

--Ivan

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