[python-win32] HookMessage fails

[Tim Roberts]

TK Soh wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure about Platform SDK. I started
> doing this windows thing directly with python32.
>
> The HookMessage is called in OnInitDialog(), so I presumed is called
> every time a new dialog is created (I'm very new to windows
> programming):

Yes, it is.  WM_INITDIALOG is called after all the child controls are
created but before the dialog is made visible.  It was designed
specifically for things like your subclassing.


>    def OnInitDialog(self):
>        rc = Dialog.OnInitDialog(self)
>        oldhanler = self.HookMessage(self.OnSize, win32con.WM_SIZE)
>
> I just noticed yet another strange thing: the dialogs opened from the
> 'first' explorer window will always stay on top with respect to their
> parent explorer window, while other dialogs maybe freely reordered.
>
> Windowx (XP) also does not create taskbar menus (not sure this is what
> they are called) for the custom dialogs that are opened from the
> 'first' explorer window.

Interesting that they behave so differently.  That begins to suggest
they have different parents.  What do you specify as the parent when you
create the dialog?

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