The Old New Thing

The correct order for disabling and enabling windows

February 27, 2004 Feb 27, 2004 02/27/04

Raymond Chen

If you want to display modal UI, you need to disable the owner and enable the modal child, and then reverse the procedure when the modal child is finished. And if you do it wrong, focus will get all messed up. If you are finished with a modal dialog, your temptation would be to clean up in the following order: But if you do that, ...