DIALOGEX Resource

This resource-definition statement is an extension of the DIALOG resource-definition statement that additionally supports the following:

Help identifiers on the dialog box itself, as well as on controls within the dialog box.
Use of the EXSTYLE statement for the dialog box itself, as well as on controls within the dialog box.
Font weight and italic settings for the font to be used in the dialog box.
Control-specific data for controls within the dialog box.
Use of the BEDIT, IEDIT, and HEDIT predefined system class names.

Syntax

nameID DIALOGEX x, y, width, height [[ , helpID]] [[ optional-statements]] { control-statements }

Parameters

nameID

Identifies the dialog box. This is either a unique name or a unique 16-bit unsigned integer value in the range 1 to 65,535.

Specifies, in dialog units, the location on the screen of the left side of the dialog box.

Specifies, in dialog units, the location on the screen of the top of the dialog box.

width

Specifies, in dialog units, the width of the dialog box.

height

Specifies, in dialog units, the height of the dialog box.

helpID

Specifies a numeric expression that indicates the identifier of the dialog box during WM_HELP processing.

optional-statements

Specifies options for the dialog box. This can be zero or more of the following statements:

Value	Description
CAPTION “text”	Specifies the caption of the dialog box if it has a title bar. For more information, see CAPTION.
CHARACTERISTICS dword	Specifies a user-defined DWORD value for use by resource tools. This value is not used by the system. For more information, see CHARACTERISTICS.
CLASS class	Specifies a 16-bit unsigned integer or a string, enclosed in double quotation marks (“), that identifies the class of the dialog box. For more information, see CLASS.
EXSTYLE=extended-styles	Specifies the extended window style of the dialog box. For more information, see EXSTYLE.
FONT pointsize, typeface, weight, italic	Specifies the point size and typeface for the font. For weight, use the FW_* values defined in the header file Wingdi.h. For italic, specify TRUE to use an italic font, FALSE otherwise. For more information, see FONT.
LANGUAGE language,sublanguage	Specifies the language of the dialog box. For more information, see LANGUAGE.
MENU menuname	Specifies the menu to use. This value is either the name of the menu or its integer identifier. For more information, see MENU.
STYLE styles	Specifies the styles of the dialog box. For more information, see STYLE.
VERSION dword	Specifies a user-defined DWORD value. This statement is intended for use by additional resource tools and is not used by the system. For more information, see VERSION.

control-statements

The body of the DIALOGEX resource is made up of any number of control statements. There are four families of control statements: generic, static, button, and edit. For more information about these families, see Remarks.

Remarks

The following valid operations can be contained in any of the numeric expressions in the statements of DIALOGEX:

Add (‘+’)
Subtract (‘-’)
Unary minus (‘-’)
Unary NOT (‘~’)
AND (‘&’)
OR (‘|’)

The body of the resource is made up of generic, static, button, and edit control statements. While each of these families of statements uses a different syntax for defining specific features of its controls, they all share a common syntax for defining position, size, extended styles, Help identification number, and control-specific data.

See Also

ACCELERATORS, Button Control Statements, CHARACTERISTICS, CONTROL, CreateDialog, CreateWindow, DialogBox, DIALOGEX, Edit Control Statements, GetDialogBaseUnits, Generic Control Statements, LANGUAGE, MENU, RCDATA, Static Control Statements, STRINGTABLE, VERSION