CDialog initial size.

[Beamer]

I have a CDialog derived class that has a resizing border. I allow the
operator to size the dialog. When the dialog first opens I usually want
its initial size to be the size that it is designed as in the dialog
resource.

However, sometimes I want the dialog to be larger when it first opens.
My plan is to pass initial size data into the dialog in the dialog's
constructor. I'd then save those values in the class's data. Then in the
OnInitDialog method (or maybe somewhere else) I'd do "something" to
adjust the dialog's size.

What do I do to make this happen. What do I call (and where) to adjust
the initial size of the window?

[David Wilkinson]

Use MoveWindow() or SetWindowPos().

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[David Lowndes]

>However, sometimes I want the dialog to be larger when it first opens.
>My plan is to pass initial size data into the dialog in the dialog's
>constructor. I'd then save those values in the class's data. Then in the
> OnInitDialog method (or maybe somewhere else) I'd do "something" to
>adjust the dialog's size.
>
>What do I do to make this happen. What do I call (and where) to adjust
>the initial size of the window?

As David's mentioned, use MoveWindow or SetWindowPos. You can call
them from your dialog's OnInitDialog handler as you hoped.

Dave

[David Webber]

"Beamer" <Bea...@email.com> wrote in message
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Let me add bells and whistles to what the others have said:

If you want to preserve te state between runs of the program, you can save
the size in the registry, and use it to construct a WINDOWPLACEMENT
structure, which you can impose with the SetWindowPlacement() API (and
doing it in OnInitDialog() is the right place).

Dave
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[Beamer]

Thank you everyone.