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Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer13-Apr-10 20:55
Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer13-Apr-10 20:55 
Well, what's actually stopping you?

I can see a few steps:

First, you need this to toggle on and off. If it was on all the time, anyone using this dialog will hate you. "I just tried to press OK, but the damn button keeps moving!"

You'll need to subclass your button(s), and override WM_LBUTTONDOWN,WM_MOUSEMOVE,WM_LBUTTONUP. For the button messages, either pass them on as normal, or toggle a "I'm dragging flag". In the mouse button, subtract the current position from the last position, and move the window by that much. Something like:
void CMyMovableButton::OnMouseMove (UINT fFlags, CPoint ptMouse)
{
    // Translate point into parent coords
    if (m_bDragging) // toggles in OnLButtonDown/Up
    {
        CWnd *pParent = GetParent ();
        // Translate coords to parent coords.
        MapWindowPoints (pParent, &ptMouse, 1);
        CPoint ptDelta = ptMouse - m_ptMouseLast; // you did save the lbutton down position, I hope!
        MoveWindow (ptDelta.x, ptDelta.y);
        SetWindowPos (NULL, ptDelta.x, ptDelta.y, 0,0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER);
        m_ptMouseLast = ptMouse;
    }
    else
        __super::OnMouseMove (fFlags, ptMouse);
}


You'll also need to store all your window positions when the dialog closes (or store them whenever a control has finished moving) so that you can use that information next time the dialog is used. Maybe make structure full of CPOints (ie, ptOKButton, ptCancelButton) and save that in the registry for use in you CMyMovableDlg::OnInitDialog function?


You might also want to look at CDiagramEditor - DIY vector and dialog editor[^] for an alternate way of doing all this.


It sounds like you have a lot of work ahead of you - and I know no shortcut. I hope you have a strong business case for this, and not just "wouldn't it be cool?"

Maybe when you're done, you could write an article based on it?

Good luck,

Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww).

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