Making and Using Controls

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You make most controls for dialog boxes in the Visual C++ dialog editor. But you can also create controls in any dialog box or window.

What do you want to know more about?

• Creating controls in a dialog box
  
  
• Using the dialog editor to add controls
  
  
• Adding controls by hand (without the dialog editor)
  
  
• Deriving controls from a standard control
  
  
• Using a common control as a child window
  
  
• Receiving notification messages from a control
  
  
• Using DDX and DDV to initialize controls and retrieve values from them
  
  
• Creating a dialog class member variable with the Control property, and programming the control through this data member
  
  
• Individual controls: see the table Windows Common Controls and MFC Classes for links to all common controls
  
  
• Dialog boxes
  
  
• Dialog bars