1.2 Designing Dialog Boxes: Dialog Editor

With Dialog Editor (DLGEDIT.EXE), you can design and test a dialog box on your screen instead of defining DIALOG statements in a resource-definition file. Using Dialog Editor, you can add, modify, and delete controls in a dialog box. Dialog Editor saves the changes you make as resource-definition statements. You then compile these statements into a binary resource file that is linked to your application's executable file.

Dialog Editor contains context-sensitive Help that includes information about the following topics:

How Dialog Editor works with files

Viewing the Dialog Editor window

Opening resource files, header files, and dialog boxes

Working with dialog boxes

Editing individual controls

Working with groups of controls

Moving a dialog box between resources

Working with header files

Installing custom controls

The following illustration shows the Dialog Editor window after a user has chosen the New command from the File menu.

You must use a mouse or similar pointing device with Dialog Editor.