This resource-definition statement sets the window style of the dialog box. The window style specifies whether the box is a pop-up or a child window.
Syntax
STYLE style
Parameters
style
Specifies the window style. This parameter takes an integer value or one of the following predefined names:
| Value | Description |
| DS_LOCALEDIT | Specifies that edit controls in the dialog box use memory in the application’s data section. By default, all edit controls in dialog boxes use memory outside the application’s data section. This feature can be suppressed by adding the DS_LOCALEDIT flag to the STYLE command for the dialog box. If this flag is not used, do not use the EM_GETHANDLE and EM_SETHANDLE messages. |
| DS_MODALFRAME | Creates a dialog box with a modal dialog box frame that can be combined with a title bar and window menu by specifying the WS_CAPTION and WS_SYSMENU styles. |
| DS_NOIDLEMSG | Suppresses WM_ENTERIDLE messages that the system would otherwise send to the owner of the dialog box while the dialog box is displayed. |
| DS_SYSMODAL | Create a dialog box with the WS_EX_TOPMOST flag. This flag cannot be combined with the DS_CONTROL style. This flag is obsolete and is included for compatibility with 16-bit versions of Windows. |
| WS_BORDER | Creates a window that has a border. |
| WS_CAPTION | Creates a window that has a title bar, which implies the WS_BORDER style. |
| WS_CHILD | Creates a child window. It cannot be used with the WS_POPUP style. |
| WS_CHILDWINDOW | Creates a child window that has the WS_CHILD style. |
| WS_CLIPCHILDREN | Excludes the area occupied by child windows when drawing within the parent window. Used when creating the parent window. |
| WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | Clips child windows relative to each other; that is, when a particular child window receives a WM_PAINT message, this style clips all other top-level child windows out of the region of the child window to be updated. When drawing in the client area of a child window, if the WS_CLIPSIBLINGS style is not specified and child windows overlap, it is possible to draw in the client area of a neighboring child window. For use with the WS_CHILD style only. |
| WS_DISABLED | Creates a window that is initially disabled. |
| WS_DLGFRAME | Creates a window with a modal dialog box frame but no title. |
| WS_GROUP | Specifies the first control of a group of controls in which the user can move from one control to the next by using the arrow keys. All controls defined with the WS_GROUP style after the first control belong to the same group. The next control with the WS_GROUP style ends the style group and starts the next group. This style is valid only for controls. |
| WS_HSCROLL | Creates a window that has a horizontal scroll bar. |
| WS_ICONIC | Creates a window that is initially iconic. For use with the WS_OVERLAPPED style only. |
| WS_MAXIMIZE | Creates a window of maximum size. |
| WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | Creates a window that has a maximize button. |
| WS_MINIMIZE | Creates a window of minimum size. |
| WS_MINIMIZEBOX | Creates a window that has a minimize button. |
| WS_OVERLAPPED | Creates an overlapped window. An overlapped window has a caption and a border. |
| WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | Creates an overlapped window having the WS_OVERLAPPED, WS_CAPTION, WS_SYSMENU, WS_THICKFRAME, WS_MINIMIZEBOX, and WS_MAXIMIZEBOX styles. |
| WS_POPUP | Creates a pop-up window. It cannot be used with the WS_CHILD style. |
| WS_POPUPWINDOW | Creates a pop-up window that has the WS_POPUP, WS_BORDER, and WS_SYSMENU styles. The WS_CAPTION style must be combined with the WS_POPUPWINDOW style to make the System menu visible. |
| WS_SIZEBOX | Creates a window that has a size box. Used only for windows with a title bar or with vertical and horizontal scroll bars. |
| WS_SYSMENU | Creates a window that has a window menu in its title bar. Used only for windows with title bars. If used with a child window, this style creates a Close button instead of a window menu. |
| WS_TABSTOP | Specifies one of any number of controls through which the user can move by using the TAB key. The TAB key moves the user to the next control specified by the WS_TABSTOP style. This style is valid only for controls. |
| WS_THICKFRAME | Creates a window with a thick frame that can be used to size the window. |
| WS_VISIBLE | Creates a window that is initially visible. This applies to overlapping and pop-up windows. For overlapping windows, the y parameter is used as a parameter for the ShowWindow function. |
| WS_VSCROLL | Creates a window that has a vertical scroll bar. |
The default style is WS_POPUP | WS_BORDER | WS_SYSMENU.
Remarks
If the predefined names are used, you must include the header file, Windows.h.