How can I minimize a child dialog to the task bar in an MFC application?

Question

I open a child dialog from a parent dialog. Among the child dialog properties I enabled the "Minimize" property. But if click the "Minimize" button, then the child dialog minimizes to the left corner of the screen instead of the Windows task bar. How can I solve this?

Answer 1

您的子对话框必须具有包含WS_EX_APPWINDOW的扩展样式（除了是顶级窗口之外）。

Answer 2

If I remember correctly, the "child" dialog has to be a top-level dialog if you want it to have a presence on the taskbar.

In other words, when creating your child dialog set the parent to NULL or to GetDesktopWindow(). I guess it depends on how your child dialog is being created, though.

It would help if you included the code you're using to create the child dialog.