New dialog does not draw when it goes over the edge of parent

jhgorse · Apr 4th 2015, 11:16am

I cannot seem to get this dialog to draw completely unless it's area is within the immediate parent window. The attached figure shows the grandparent window (5 - 9 text), the parent dialog (message button), and the child dialog (Q button) which gets cut off at the end of the parent dialog.

Here is the relevant code for calling the child dialog:

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hKeypad = CreateAlphaKeypad();
WM_AttachWindow(hKeypad, pMsg->hWin);
WM_MoveTo(hKeypad, 100, 200); // Move dialog
WM_MakeModal(hKeypad); // Make dialog modal
GUI_ExecCreatedDialog(hKeypad);

How can I get the child dialog to draw completely?

Cheers,
Joe

jhgorse · Apr 4th 2015, 11:18am

The answer is to remove

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WM_AttachWindow(hKeypad, pMsg->hWin);

SEGGER - Adrian · Apr 14th 2015, 11:21am

Hello Joe,

Drawing a child window outside the borders of its parent window is not possible. Please consider creating the according window as child of the next "ancestor" window.

Best regards,
Adrian

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