WS_POPUPSTYLE style
This optional statement defines the window style of the dialog box. The window style specifies whether the box is a pop-up or a child window. The default style has the following attributes:
WS_POPUP
WS_BORDER
WS_SYSMENU
The style field takes an integer value or predefined name that specifies the window style. It can be any of the window styles defined in the list below.
Summary: Comments
If the predefined names are used, the #include directive must be used so that the WINDOWS.H file will be included in the resource script.
Window styles are listed below.
Specifies that edit controls in the dialog box will use memory in the application's data segment. By default, all edit controls in dialog boxes use memory outside the application's data segment. This feature can be suppressed by adding the DS_LOCALEDIT flag to the STYLE command for the dialog box. If this flag is not used, EM_GETHANDLE and EM_SETHANDLE messages must not be used since the storage for the control is not in the application's data segment. This feature does not affect edit controls created outside of dialog boxes.
DS_MODALFRAME
Creates a dialog box with a modal dialog-box frame that can be combined with a title bar and system menu by specifying the WS_CAPTION and WS_SYSMENU styles.
DS_NOIDLEMSG
Suppresses WM_ENTERIDLE messages that Windows would otherwise send to the owner of the dialog box while the dialog box is displayed.
DS_SYSMODAL
Creates a system-modal dialog box.
Creates a window that has a border.
WS_CAPTION
Creates a window that has a title bar (implies WS_BORDER).
WS_CHILD
Creates a child window. It cannot be used with WS_POPUP.
WS_CHILDWINDOW
Creates a child window that has the style WS_CHILD.
WS_CLIPCHILDREN
Excludes the area occupied by child windows when drawing within the parent window. Used when creating the parent window.
WS_CLIPSIBLINGS
Clips child windows relative to each other; that is, when a particular child window receives a WP_PAINT message, this style clips all other top-level child windows out of the region of the child window to be updated. (If WS_CLIPSIBLINGS is not given and child windows overlap, it is possible, when drawing in the client area of a child window, to draw in the client area of a neighboring child window.) For use with WS_CHILD only.
WS_DISABLED
Creates a window that is initially disabled.
WS_DLGFRAME
Creates a window with a modal dialog-box frame but no title.
WS_GROUP
Specifies the first control of a group of controls in which the user can move from one control to the next by using the arrow keys. All controls defined with the WS_GROUP style after the first control belong to the same group. The next control with the WS_GROUP style ends the style group and starts the next group (i.e., one group ends where the next begins). This style is valid only for controls.
WS_HSCROLL
Creates a window that has a horizontal scroll bar.
WS_ICONIC
Creates a window that is initially iconic. For use with WS_OVERLAPPED only.
WS_MAXIMIZE
Creates a window of maximum size.
WS_MAXIMIZEBOX
Creates a window that has a Maximize box.
WS_MINIMIZE
Creates a window of minimum size.
WS_MINIMIZEBOX
Creates a window that has a Minimize box.
WS_OVERLAPPED
Creates an overlapped window. An overlapped window has a caption and a border.
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW
Creates an overlapped window having the WS_OVERLAPPED, WS_CAPTION, WS_SYSMENU, WS_THICKFRAME, WS_MINIMIZEBOX, and WS_MAXIMIZEBOX styles.
WS_POPUP
Creates a pop-up window. It cannot be used with WS_CHILD.
WS_POPUPWINDOW
Creates a pop-up window that has the styles WS_POPUP, WS_BORDER, and WS_SYSMENU. The WS_CAPTION style must be combined with the WS_POPUPWINDOW style to make the system menu visible.
WS_SIZEBOX
Creates a window that has a size box. Used only for windows with a title bar or with vertical and horizontal scroll bars.
WS_SYSMENU
Creates a window that has a System-menu box in its title bar. Used only for windows with title bars. If used with a child window, this style creates a Close box instead of a System-menu box.
WS_TABSTOP
Specifies one of any number of controls through which the user can move by using the TAB key. The TAB key moves the user to the next control specified by the WS_TABSTOP style. This style is valid only for controls.
WS_THICKFRAME
Creates a window with a thick frame that can be used to size the window.
WS_VISIBLE
Creates a window that is initially visible. This applies to overlapping and pop-up windows. For overlapping windows, the y parameter is used as a ShowWindow function parameter.
WS_VSCROLL
Creates a window that has a vertical scroll bar.