I'm using VS2008 CPP to develop a simple MFC Dialog Based application.

First I create a dialog, to be used as child, in the resource editor (IDD_THE_FLOATER). I give the dialog the style:Child setting and place two controls on it: Combo and Edit.

Next I create a class for the dialog and add it as a data member to the main dialog window (float_dialog).

Now I attempt to make the floating dialog appear inside of the main dialog window. On initialization I do the following:

float_dialog.Create(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_THE_FLOATE R), this);
float_dialog.ShowWindow(SW_SHOWNORMAL);

The floating dialog appears and can be dragged around inside the main dialog app. The combo box works well but the edit box will not respond to mouse clicks.

The I-Beam cursor appears when the mouse is moved over the CEdit control and I can force the focus programmatically but am unable to set focus to CEdit using the mouse.

If I change the floating dialog to a Control:True type the CEdit works as it should (can mouse control it) but I lose the dialog border and the ability to drag it around.

Does anyone know why this is happening? And if so, is there a way to get CEdit to behave properly given this setup?