Re: Using custom dialog template for Pagesetup dialog

--- In [email protected], "Jeff Henkels" <jeff@...> wrote:
>
> "arasakumaran" <arasakumaran@...> wrote 
> in message news:gqrvrv+7omt@...
> > Thanks Mike.  I had seen that about the same time.  I now can get my 
> > dialog. But have not
> > yet figured out how to use the HookProc, or even if I need to do it. May 
> > be I just place
> > a message map and see if the messages get routed to my class.
> 
> I just went through this with CFileDialog.  You don't need to do a hookproc;
> the base class implements its own hookproc & calls overridable functions for
> the various uMsg values the hookproc receives.  Your message map should work
> fine without any modification.  Some other weirdnesses I noticed:
> 
> 1.  In your WM_INITDIALOG handler, the HWND parameter will be NULL -- the
> class's m_hWnd is your template dialog, which is a child control of the
> common dialog.  GetParent() returns the hDlg for the common dialog, so
> GetParent().GetDlgItem(x) will return the appropriate common dialog control,
> and GetDlgItem(x) will return the appropriate control in your template
> dialog.
> 
> 2.  If you're going to move controls around in your WM_INITDIALOG handler,
> remember that your template dialog is itself a child control of the common
> dialog.  So when you get the windowrect for one of your template controls,
> and if you're using SetWindowPos to move the control, you'll need to do a
> GetParent().ScreenToClient on the window rect to make its coordinates
> relative to the common dialog.
> 
> 3.  Again in the WM_INITDIALOG handler, the LPARAM parameter is a pointer to
> the OPENFILENAME (or in your case PAGESETUPDLG) struct.  This probably won't
> be too useful since the struct is a public member of the base class, and is
> thus easily accessible anyway.
> 
> 4.  Make sure your class derives from CPageSetupDialogImpl, not
> CPageSetupDialog.  Also make sure your message map includes a CHAIN_MSG_MAP
> entry to CPageSetupDialogImpl.
>

Thank you very much for all the info.  I had figured out most of it, but the part about how to get at the controls for the basic dialog is new details.
I have my dialog working now.



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