Dialog Box Obscures the Today Screen (308660)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++, Version:4.0, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows CE Platform SDK for Pocket PC
- Microsoft Windows CE Platform SDK for Pocket PC 2002

This article was previously published under Q308660

SYMPTOMS

When you create a dialog-based application, or when you create any application whose active window is a dialog box and the parent is set to NULL, while this application is running, you cannot navigate to the Today screen.

CAUSE

If you create a modal dialog box whose parent is set to NULL, the parent is the Today screen. However, because a modal dialog box cannot navigate to its parent, a modal dialog box whose parent is NULL cannot navigate to the Today screen.

WORKAROUND

If you want the behavior to navigate to the Today screen, create a hidden window and set it as parent of the dialog box by using the following code:

CWnd wndHidden ;
wndHidden.Create(NULL,L"HIDDEN",WS_BORDER,CRect(-1,-1,0,0),NULL,1234);
CMyDialog dlg( &wndHidden );
dlg.DoModal() ;

MORE INFORMATION

Under Microsoft Foundation Classes

The main window is itself a dialog box, and because its parent is not set, its parent is the Today screen.
When you create any dialog box in an MFC-based application, even if the parent is set to NULL, MFC sets the parent of that dialog to the main window of the application.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	8/18/2005
Keywords:	kbpending kbprb KB308660 kbAudDeveloper