Child window

[charvi]

Hi,

I would like to create a child window where it is not possible to get focus on the parent window by clicking on it.

The parent is a gray full screen window, if you click on the gray part, the child salmon window disappear, and that's what I want to avoid.

So far is my code as follows. What am I missing?

Thanks for any help.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiEdit.au3>
#include <GuiMenu.au3>
#include <GuiToolBar.au3>
#include <GuiComboBoxEx.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>

GLOBAL $Form1,$Form2,$qubutton,$event

$Form1 = GUICreate("",1680,1050,0,0,BitOR($ws_popup, $ws_border))
GUISetBkColor(0x838b83,$Form1)
$qubutton = guictrlcreatebutton("Quit",200, 50, 60)
GUISetState()

$Form2 = GUICreate("You",500,500,160,160, $ws_popup, $ws_ex_dlgmodalframe)
GUISetBkColor(0xeecbad,$Form2)
GUISetState()

While 1
  $event = GUIGetMsg()
  Select
    Case $event = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE or $event=$qubutton
      ExitLoop
  EndSelect
WEnd

[dbzfanatic]

Try something like this:

If Not WinActive($form2) Then
WinActivate($form2)
EndIf

[charvi]

Thanks for your fast reply, dbzfanatic!

Where shall I place your code? If I put it in the While 1 loop, I believe it will overload the computer resources.

I thought there was an elegant way to indicate this behaviour while creating the window (through a Style or exStyle). I tried with $ws_ex_mdichild, but I am not sure what this is...

And another question, how do I close the child window? Sure, I should put a Quit button in the child window, but what is the command to close the child?

Thanks

[Nahuel]

You must use GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE,$parent) before creating child and GUISetState(@SW_ENABLE,$parent) when destroying child.

example:

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 369, 276, 193, 125)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Create child", 64, 76, 229, 105, 0)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ExitLoop
        Case $Button1
            _CreateChild()

    EndSwitch
WEnd

Func _CreateChild()
    GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE,$Form1)
    $child=GUICreate("Child - click on parent!",200,200,-1,-1,-1,-1,$Form1)
    GUISetState()
    While 1
        $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
        Switch $nMsg
            Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
                ExitLoop
        EndSwitch
    WEnd
    GUISetState(@SW_ENABLE,$Form1)
    GUIDelete($child)
EndFunc

Note how the child window flashes when you click parent.

-edit-

Actually, now that I tested your code, I see that this isn't really what you want.

You are missing something very important, the salmon GUi is NOT a child of the GRAY Gui. You must pass the handle of the parent to GUICREATE when creating the child GUI. Your code fixed:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiEdit.au3>
#include <GuiMenu.au3>
#include <GuiToolBar.au3>
#include <GuiComboBoxEx.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>

GLOBAL $Form1,$Form2,$qubutton,$event

$Form1 = GUICreate("",1680,1050,0,0,BitOR($ws_popup, $ws_border))
GUISetBkColor(0x838b83,$Form1)
$qubutton = guictrlcreatebutton("Quit",200, 50, 60)
GUISetState()

$Form2 = GUICreate("You",500,500,160,160, $ws_popup, $ws_ex_dlgmodalframe,$Form1);I added the handle of the parent to the last parameter.
GUISetBkColor(0xeecbad,$Form2)
GUISetState()

While 1
  $event = GUIGetMsg()
  Select
    Case $event = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE or $event=$qubutton
      ExitLoop
  EndSelect
WEnd

This way both windows will work and the child will be on top of the parent.

Edited November 22, 2008 by Nahuel

[charvi]

Excellent Nahuel, the second solution is what I needed. Thank you very much!

And the first solution is very useful too, and contains the answer to close a window: GUIDelete($Form2). I was searching in the help file on the word Close, never thought about Delete!