ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) button in main dialog problem

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Hello,

I have a dialog based app.

In the main dialog I want to show or hide some buttons, according to some option settings in my program.

I declare a control value for my button: ctrl_button.
to show or hide the button I call ctrl_button.ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); or SW_SHOW

followed by Invalidate();

however this does not seem to work.

I do the same in a child dialog and this works properly.
If I call parent->Invalidate(); from the child, the button in the main will hide!!!
Also when I minimize-maximize the dialog the button will hide...

But when I call Invalidate() in the main nothing happens.
The button is still shown on the screen, but is not clickable.

I tried several solutions involving UpdateWindow, RedrawWindow,...

Someone has an idea?

Thanks

PS a strange thing occurs:
I set the button default to invisible.
ShowWindow(SW_SHOWS) the button
but afterwards ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) does not hide it again

Posted 18-Oct-12 2:55am

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Updated 18-Oct-12 4:02am

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Jochen Arndt 18-Oct-12 11:35am

I hope you did not want to hide or disable the button that has the focus. That would not work. To hide/disable such a button, you must set the focus to another one using GotoDlgCtrl() before doing so. Note also that you must return FALSE from OnInitDialog() when removing the focus from the default button.

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Barakat S. · Answer 1 · 2012-10-18T05:06:00

Let's say I added some button named `Hide Me` in my dialog and I set the ID to IDC_BUTTON_HIDE_ME. Now, all I need to hide it is to double click on that button and write:

C++

void CMyApplicationDlg::OnBnClickedButtonHideMe()
{
    // `IDC_BUTTON_HIDE_ME` is the ID of that button
    this->GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON_HIDE_ME)->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
}

// Or in case you created that button manualy
void CMyApplicationDlg::OnBnClickedAnotherHideMe()
{
    // `AnotherHideMeButton` is a CButton class
    this->AnotherHideMeButton->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
}

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In the main dialog I want to show or hide some buttons, according to some option settings in my program.

Just a simple note, If these options are optional like the proxy settings in this DropBox dialog:

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It's a good idea to use enable and disable instead of hide and show:

C++

void CMyApplicationDlg::OnBnClickedButtonHideMe()
{
    this->GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON_HIDE_ME)->EnableWindow(FALSE);
}

void CMyApplicationDlg::OnBnClickedAnotherHideMe()
{
    this->AnotherHideMeButton->EnableWindow(FALSE);
}

Blob_Dlg · Answer 2 · 2012-11-19T04:50:00

Solution 2

Hello,

found it,

I overrided OnEraseBkgnd() to avoid some flickering.

this blocked the redrawing of the buttons...

Posted 19-Nov-12 4:50am

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