Problem: Parent Moves under Child

[CFire]

I have an issue with the parent-child styling where the child has almost a 'topmost' style to it by default and when the parent moves over it, it actually moves under it. I was wondering if there is a way to fix this to make the Parent the more dominant window. This is the way i am setting up the parent and child gui's.

$Parent = GUICreate("Parent",200, 200)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)

$Child = GUICreate("Child", 200, 200, 100, 100, -1, -1, $Parent)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)

[joeyb1275]

Yeah this is a good question. I'm having the same problem???

[Zedna]

Not expert with this but at least idea: change Z-Order of your windows (see SetWindowPos API function)

[CFire]

I tried something but i'm not quite sure i did it right. do u have an example code that uses this function?

[socratessa]

Maybe this is what youre looking for.

The code is using the extended options of the getmsg function.

It give control to the child window and disables the parent

I used $WS_SYSMENU,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW to disable all system window functions

If you want those enabled you must add the proper handling of it in the code

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

$gui=GUICreate("Parent", 300, 300)
$button=GUICtrlCreateButton("test",10,10,100,15)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

do
  $msg = GUIGetMsg()
  Select
  Case $msg = $button
     WinSetState($gui,"",@SW_DISABLE)
     $guichild=GUICreate("Child",200,200,-1,-1,$WS_SYSMENU,$WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW)
     GUISetState(@SW_SHOW,$guichild)
     do
       $childmsg = GUIGetMsg(1)
       if not WinActive($guichild) and Winactive($gui) Then winactivate($guichild)
     until $childmsg[0] = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE and $childmsg[1] = $guichild 
     WinSetState($gui,"",@SW_ENABLE)
     GUIDelete($guichild)
  EndSelect
until $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

Edited April 10, 2007 by socratessa

[CFire]

That script deactivates the parent while being able to work on the child. I was looking for something that makes both the parent and child able to be used but when you drag the parent window over the child it actually goes over it not under it.

This Script is an example of what im talking about where the child gui is always above the parent gui. I dont know how to fix it.

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
Dim $msg

$Parent=GUICreate("Parent", 200, 100)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
$Child = GUICreate("Child", 200, 100, -1, @DesktopHeight/2, 0, 0, $Parent)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While $msg <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
  $msg = GUIGetMsg()
WEnd

[therks]

As far as I know that's just how parent/child windows work. Is there any particular reason you need to have the windows setup this way? Could you not just use two unrelated windows?