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From: phco@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows management from dynamic link libraries
Message-ID: <6287@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 89 18:39:46 GMT
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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I'm having difficulty figuring out how to create and manage windows
from a dynamic link library that is loaded from a main program after
program initialization (the main program does not know the name or
contents of the DLL until the DLL is selected from a list of DLLs
on disk).  As I understand it from Petzold's book, DLLs do not receive
messages from Windows and so must peek at the main program's message
queue.  The only exception is for modal dialog boxes, which get their
messages directly.  However, I really need full popup windows, or at
least a modeless dialog box.

Can anyone offer some suggestions (or maybe even a little code) about
windows management from within a DLL?


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                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)
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