I have created a "find" dialog using WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW style.

It has the TOPMOST setting.

Everything works fine except that it even stays visible when I minimize the window it was created in.

Creating it as a child does not help.

I want it to be topmost in its own process only.

In other words I want it to behave like the "find" dialog in common controls.

Please help.

Every window stays always above it's owner window. You don't need to make it topmost.

Regards.

John,

If I don't make the window topmost, I disappears if I click anything outside the window (such as the RAEdit control it sits over).

I want my window to behave like the find dialog that comes with common controls.

Mike

Wrong. Visibly you didn't set proper owner window for your "find" dialog. When you create the window you must set his owner window - i.e. the window on top of what the dialog will stay... Read carefully description of CreateWindowEx. (Note: parent window and owner window is not the same! Owner window can be set only once when the control is being created.)

Regards.

How does the find dialog in common controls accomplish this behavior?

WS_EX_APPWINDOW does the job nicely!