Problem with non modal ADM dialog

Question

I have problem with focus and mouse and keyboard event passing to non modal dialog if some modal window was opened and closed on Windows platform.
I have this problem in my plugin, but also I did some tests with SDK WordFinder Plugin.There are 2 dialogs open there : CountDialog-non modal dialog and PromtDialog-modal one. I commented all lines in function DeleteCountDialog to leave this dialog on the screen. So, first, when "create page map" menu is selected, CountDialog is appearing and stays on the screen. At this stage, it can be moved and get focus when is clicked.After that, I click on "find word by word offset" and then PromtDialog is appearing. when I close Promtdialog by clicking on OK or Cancel, CountDialog is "freezing" - means, it can not be moved and does not get focus when I click on it.
Is it known problem ? Is there is some workaround there ?
thanks in advance,
Lidia.

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for your response.
I did changes as you recommended, but still have the same result.
So I have WordFinder from Acrobat SDK 8 with only one file changed:WordFinderDlg.cpp - see below.The result is the same:
1. I open Acrobat->Open some file
2. Click on "Advanced->Acrobat SDK->Word Finder->create Page Map" menu
3. "count" non Modal Dialog is opened and working and then stays on the screen and can be moved without problem.
4. Now I click on "Advanced->Acrobat SDK->Word Finder->find Word By Offset" - Modal Promt Dialog is opened. click some number and then click ok - choosen word is selected in Acrobat. From this moment, first "Count" dialog is frosen - can be selected, can not be moved.
The only workaround I see here is to create non Modal dialog every time I close Modal one.
Could you please advice ? May I please send to you project in zip ?
I really need it ASAP ?
thanks in advance,
Lidia.
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\file WordFinderDlg.cpp
- Implements a modeless progress dialog and a generic prompt dialog.
// Acrobat headers
#ifdef WIN_PLATFORM
#include "PIHeaders.h"
#endif
#include "ADMAcroSDK.h"
#include "resource.h"
Constants/Declarations
static ADMDialogRef countDialog;
static AVWindow gAVWindow = NULL;
// Global variables used for simplicity
const ASInt32 MaxLen = 80;
static char textStr[MaxLen];
static char titleStr[MaxLen];
static char msgStr[MaxLen];
Modeless Progress Dialog
/* UpdateCountDialog
** Updates the dialog with a new GUI function to show count number
void UpdateCountDialog(ASInt32 cnt)
ADMItemRef itemRef;
itemRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(countDialog, IDC_COUNT);
sADMItem->SetIntValue(itemRef, cnt);
sADMDialog->Update(countDialog);
/* CreateCountDialog
/** GUI function to delete the count dialog
void DeleteCountDialog(void)
// destroy dialog
/*if (countDialog) {
sADMDialog->Destroy(countDialog);
countDialog = NULL;
// Release ADM
ADMUtils::ReleaseADM();*/
/* SettingsCountDialogOnInit
** Called to initialize the the dialog controls
ASErr ASAPI CountDialogOnInit(ADMDialogRef dialogRef)
ADMItemRef itemRef;
itemRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(dialogRef, IDC_COUNT);
sADMItem->SetUnits(itemRef, kADMNoUnits);
sADMItem->SetIntValue(itemRef, 0);
return kSPNoError;
/* CreateCountDialog
** Creates the modeless dialog.
void CreateCountDialog(void)
// Initialize ADM.
ADMUtils::InitializeADM();
// Display modeless dialog.
countDialog = sADMDialog->Create(sADMPluginRef, "ADBE:Wordfinder", IDD_COUNT_DIALOG,
kADMNoCloseFloatingDialogStyle, CountDialogOnInit, NULL, NULL);
Generic Prompt Dialog
/* PromptOnOK
** Called when the user clicks OK. Stores the string entered by the
** user.
static void ASAPI PromptOnOK(ADMItemRef item, ADMNotifierRef inNotifier )
sADMItem->DefaultNotify(item, inNotifier);
// get user input string
ADMDialogRef dialog = sADMItem->GetDialog(item);
ADMItemRef item1 = sADMDialog->GetItem(dialog, ID_PROMPT_FIELD);
sADMItem->GetText(item1, textStr, MaxLen);
sADMDialog->EndModal(dialog,IDOK,FALSE);
AVAppEndModal();
AVWindowDestroy(gAVWindow);
/* PromptDialogOnInit
** Called to initialize the dialog controls.
ASErr ASAPI PromptDialogOnInit(ADMDialogRef dialogRef)
gAVWindow = AVWindowNewFromPlatformThing (AVWLmodal, AVWIN_WANTSKEY, NULL, gExtensionID, sADMDialog->GetWindowRef(dialogRef));
AVAppBeginModal (gAVWindow);
sADMDialog->SetText(dialogRef, titleStr);
sADMDialog->SetDefaultItemID(dialogRef, IDOK);
sADMDialog->SetCancelItemID(dialogRef, IDCANCEL);
ADMItemRef itemRef;
itemRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(dialogRef, IDOK);
sADMItem->SetNotifyProc(itemRef, PromptOnOK);
itemRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(dialogRef, ID_PROMPT_FIELD);
sADMItem->SetUnits(itemRef, kADMNoUnits);
sADMItem->SetMinIntValue(itemRef, 1);
itemRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(dialogRef, ID_PROMPT_NAME);
sADMItem->SetText(itemRef, msgStr);
return kSPNoError;
/* PromptForInfo
/** Generic prompt dialog that gets a text string from the user.
/** @return IDOK or IDCANCEL.
ASInt32 PromptForInfo(const char *title, const char *msg, char *buf, ASInt32 bufLen)
if (!buf || (bufLen == 0))
ASRaise (GenError(genErrBadParm));
// Initialize ADM.
ADMUtils::InitializeADM();
// init data
buf[0] = 0;
strncpy(titleStr, title, sizeof(titleStr) - 1);
strncpy(msgStr, msg, sizeof(msgStr) - 1);
// Dispaly modal dialog to get user input
ASInt32 rc = sADMDialog->Modal(sADMPluginRef, "ADBE:Wordfinder", IDD_PROMPT_DIALOG,
kADMModalDialogStyle, PromptDialogOnInit, NULL, NULL);
// get user input data
if (rc==IDOK)
strcpy(buf, textStr);
// Release ADM
ADMUtils::ReleaseADM();
return rc;