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====== Center a window or dialog ======

It looks sometimes much better, if a new modal dialog or window is centered to his parent. This function solves this for you. just call ''CenterWindow (hwndChild, hwndParent);''.

<code c>BOOL CenterWindow(HWND hwndChild, HWND hwndParent)
{
    RECT    rcChild, rcParent;
    int     cxChild, cyChild, cxParent, cyParent;
    int     cxScreen, cyScreen, xNew, yNew;
    HDC     hdc;

    GetWindowRect(hwndChild, &rcChild);
    cxChild = rcChild.right - rcChild.left;
    cyChild = rcChild.bottom - rcChild.top;

    GetWindowRect(hwndParent, &rcParent);
    cxParent = rcParent.right - rcParent.left;
    cyParent = rcParent.bottom - rcParent.top;

    hdc = GetDC(hwndChild);
    cxScreen = GetDeviceCaps(hdc, HORZRES);
    cyScreen = GetDeviceCaps(hdc, VERTRES);
    ReleaseDC(hwndChild, hdc);

    xNew = rcParent.left + ((cxParent - cxChild) / 2);
    if (xNew < 0)
    {
        xNew = 0;
    }
    else if ((xNew + cxChild) > cxScreen)
    {
        xNew = cxScreen - cxChild;
    }

    yNew = rcParent.top  + ((cyParent - cyChild) / 2);
    if (yNew < 0)
    {
        yNew = 0;
    }
    else if ((yNew + cyChild) > cyScreen)
    {
        yNew = cyScreen - cyChild;
    }

    return SetWindowPos(hwndChild,
                        NULL,
                        xNew, yNew,
                        0, 0,
                        SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER);
}</code>

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