Re: How Do I Get an Interface Pointer to a Control?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:50:15 -0400
Message-ID:
<u2Qg3cd#GHA.4472@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Dave <blueturtle@walla.co.il> wrote:

However, my "composite" control is created windowless (although marked
as "windowed only").


What container are you testing in? A window is created for a windowed
control only when the control is in-place activated. Some containers
never in-place activate the control (most notably Visual Studio's dialog
editor), some do so only in response to explicit user action (e.g. MS
Word when the control is inserted an an OLE object as opposed to form
control), some activate as soon as the control is created (e.g. Internet
Explorer).

Is there anyway to access the control when it has no window ?


Child controls of a composite control are only created when its window
is created. You can't access what doesn't exist yet.
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