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kelvin.koogan@googlemail.com - 14 Jan 2008 21:01 GMT

I am having difficulty persuading MessageBoxes to appear over my
application (using C++/CLI in VS2005). I would expect

MessageBox::Show(this, "Some message");

to cause the message box to appear over the Form pointed to by this,
but it doesn't seem to work, it appears centered on the screen.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

TIA,
KK

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PvdG42 - 15 Jan 2008 15:27 GMT

>I am having difficulty persuading MessageBoxes to appear over my
> application (using C++/CLI in VS2005). I would expect
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> TIA,
> KK

I've tested in XP and Vista with both VS 2005 and VS 2008. I get the same
behavior. It could be a long running bug, or something we don't understand
about the Show method. Hopefully, somebody else will jump in here and open
our eyes :)

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David Wilkinson - 15 Jan 2008 17:10 GMT

> I've tested in XP and Vista with both VS 2005 and VS 2008. I get the
> same behavior. It could be a long running bug, or something we don't
> understand about the Show method. Hopefully, somebody else will jump in
> here and open our eyes :)

PvdG42:

This is standard Windows behavior. In MFC, AfxMessageBox() achieves
centering on the parent by using a Windows hook.

I'm sure there is some way to do this in .NET, but I don't know what it is.

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PvdG42 - 15 Jan 2008 18:41 GMT

> This is standard Windows behavior. In MFC, AfxMessageBox() achieves
> centering on the parent by using a Windows hook.
>
> I'm sure there is some way to do this in .NET, but I don't know what it
> is.

I feel better. At least I'm not the only one who doesn't know how to do it

Thanks, David.

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PLS - 25 Jan 2008 08:52 GMT

> > I've tested in XP and Vista with both VS 2005 and VS 2008. I get the
> > same behavior. It could be a long running bug, or something we don't
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>
> I'm sure there is some way to do this in .NET, but I don't know what it is.

You do it the way you just said, you use a windows hook.

If it's any help, I have code I can post that uses a windows hook to
place arbitrary text on the buttons of a message box.

++PLS

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