Dialog Box Topics

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Applications for Windows frequently communicate with the user through dialog boxes. Class provides an interface for managing dialog boxes, the Visual C++ dialog editor makes it easy to design dialog boxes and create their dialog-template resources, and ClassWizard simplifies the process of initializing and validating the controls in a dialog box and of gathering the values entered by the user.

What do you want to know more about?

• Dialog components

• Modal and modeless dialog boxes

• Property sheets and property pages in a dialog box

• Creating a dialog resource template

• The life cycle of a dialog box

• Dialog data exchange (DDX) and validation (DDV)

• Type-safe access to controls in a dialog box

• Mapping Windows messages to your class

• Common dialog classes

• Dialog boxes in OLE