+// ensure that all our parent windows have WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT style
+static void EnsureParentHasControlParentStyle(wxWindow *parent)
+{
+ /*
+ 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 currently
+ focused one 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 the initial (focused) window: as we do have this style,
+ GetNextDlgTabItem() will leave this window and continue in its parent,
+ but if the parent doesn't have it, it wouldn't recurse inside it later
+ on and so wouldn't have a chance of getting back to this window neither.
+ */
+#ifndef __WXWINCE__
+ while ( 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);
+ }
+
+ parent = parent->GetParent();
+ }
+#endif // !__WXWINCE__
+}
+