如何调试MFC中不断丢失的焦点窗口（例如，对话框）？

Question

I am maintaining I big and mature application, without background on MFC paradigm and layout. I have experience with Qt, OO designs and UI frameworks (I'm aware of each thread responsibility, event loops, event handling hierarchies, etc.

I'm stuck with a settings CDialog window losing focus constantly, while I'm trying to configure my application. I also have a file explorer dialog that behaves exactly the same way. Both are activated by DoModal calls.

I've read that this is probably because I have two modal dialogs competing for focus. How can I debug that? What function could I break on to get a helpful callstack, so I can find the offending code? Is there an MFC::focusWindow(WHND window) or something that I could intercept?

Answer 1

使用Spy ++监视对话框中发生的消息/事件。

Answer 2

The problem according to your description is that you 'have two modal dialogs competing for focus'. This should normally not be possible because by definition a modal dialog takes over the application and does not return control to its launch point until the dialog is closed. Without knowing the architecture of the application, the simplest solution would be to make the settings dialog modeless (create it then call ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) instead of DoModal. This will allow the message loop to run for the other modal dialog but not take focus from your settings dialog unless it is doing it explicitly in its own methods.

Answer 3

您可以使用SetFocus函数，请参考http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/windows/desktop/ms646312%28v=vs.85%29.aspx