Re: [win32gui] RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Hierarchical controls

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Glenn W Munroe wrote:
> I finally got the tabbing to work. Just in case anybody searches for this in
> the future, I have attached the working script.

Glad you got this sorted.  WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT on the containing window 
is the right way to do this.

> 
> There is still no visual indication when disabling the window, but in
> hindsight, that's the expected behaviour anyway when disabling a window. It
> should be possible to disable the controls in cascade, as for the resize.

Daft isn't it - if you want the appearance to change, then you need to 
explicitly disable the child controls yourself.

MSDN says something like: when a control is disabled, then all its 
children are disabled too;  but this isn't really what happens.  I've 
seen threads elsewhere refering to this as 'implicit disabling'.  The 
styles of the child windows are not automatically changed, it's just 
that the window manager stops focus (and mouse events presuamably) going 
to those child controls.

Regards,
Rob.