+ // if we have WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT flag we absolutely *must* set it for our
+ // parent as well as otherwise several Win32 functions using
+ // GetNextDlgTabItem() to iterate over all controls such as
+ // IsDialogMessage() or DefDlgProc() would enter an infinite loop: indeed,
+ // all of them iterate over all the controls starting from the focus and
+ // stop iterating when they get back to the focus but unless all parents
+ // have WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT bit set, they would never get back to focus
+ if ( ((CREATESTRUCT *)cs)->dwExStyle & WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT )
+ {
+ // there is no need to do anything for the top level windows
+ const wxWindow *parent = GetParent();
+ if ( parent && !parent->IsTopLevel() )
+ {
+ LONG exStyle = ::GetWindowLong(GetHwndOf(parent), GWL_EXSTYLE);
+ if ( !(exStyle & WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT) )
+ {
+ // force the parent to have this style
+ ::SetWindowLong(GetHwndOf(parent), GWL_EXSTYLE,
+ exStyle | WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+