Dialog-Box Tasks

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Create dialog boxes when you need to obtain information from your user, such as program settings and options. Two fundamental types of dialog boxes are available: modal and modeless dialog boxes. Either of these can contain all types of controls, and either can include property pages to group controls logically.

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Categories of tasks covered in this topic include:

• Basic Dialog-Box Tasks
  
  
• Displaying, Initializing, and Closing Dialog Boxes
  
  
• Working with Dialog-Box Data
  
  
• Implementing Property-Sheet Dialog Boxes
  
  
• Working with Dialog Classes and Common Dialogs
  
  
• Advanced Dialog-Box Tasks

Basic Dialog-Box Tasks

• Create a modal dialog box
  
  
• Create a modeless dialog box

Displaying, Initializing, and Closing Dialog Boxes

• Initialize a dialog box
  
  
• Retrieve data from a dialog box
  
  
• Close a dialog box
  
  
• Destroy a dialog box

Working with Dialog-Box Data

• Use dialog data exchange (DDX)
  
  
• Validate dialog-box data with dialog data validation (DDV)

Implementing Property-Sheet Dialog Boxes

• Implement a property-sheet dialog box
  
  
• Exchange data between a property sheet and your application
  
  
• Create a modeless property sheet
  
  
• Handle the Apply button on a property sheet

Working with Dialog Classes, and Common Dialogs

• Access dialog controls with type safety
  
  
• Override dialog class member functions
  
  
• Use the common dialog classes

Advanced Dialog-Box Tasks

• Set the background color of a dialog box
  
  
• Use a dialog template in memory
  
  
• Create an application whose user interface is a dialog box: see the CMNCTRL1 or CMNCTRL2 sample programs. AppWizard provides this option as well.

See Also   Dialog Editor Topics (Specific to Visual C++), Dialog Editor