About Common Dialog Boxes

This overview describes the common dialog boxes and explains how to use them in Win32-based applications. The common dialog boxes include the Open and Save As file dialog boxes; the Find and Replace editing dialog boxes; the Print, Print Setup, and Page Setup printing dialog boxes; and the Color and Font dialog boxes.

You can create common dialog boxes for your applications by using the common dialog box functions. These functions supply the dialog box procedures and templates for the common dialog boxes. You supply the initial values for the dialog boxes and the addresses of the variables and buffers that receive the input from the dialog boxes.