Modeless dialog over modal dialog.

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(probably not directly possible).

I have a MFC application (App), I open a modal dialog (MainDialog), so the application is not available for input (normal behaviour).

Is it possible to open a child dialog (ChildDialog) of MainDialog that could be modeless to the application (effectively overwrite the modal state of the parent dialog) ?

App->MainDialog(modal to App)>ChildDialog(modeless to App)

Or I absolutly have to have a modeless dialog chain?

App->MainDialog(modeless to App)>ChildDialog(modeless to App)

No biggie making the changes, I was just wondering if there was a better way of doing this.

Thanks.

Posted 22-Oct-12 10:14am

Maximilien

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-12 16:35pm

I don't know exact answer, but... Don't you think this would be a pretty bad idea of UI design even if it's possible? Even with modal dialog over a modal dialog? Would you like to develop in the style of Windows system options applets, if not worse? :-)
--SA

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JackDingler · Answer 1 · 2012-10-23T11:04:00

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The answer is yes, you can do that.

There are many articles available on modeless dialogs.

If the modal dialog is the parent, be sure and clean up the modeless dialog on destroy.

Posted 23-Oct-12 11:04am

JackDingler