Chapter 9 Writing Custom Dialogs
Sooner or later, you will have to create your own dialogs, whether simple ones with only a few buttons and some text or highly complex dialogs with notebook controls, multiple panels, custom controls, context-sensitive help, and so on. In this chapter, we cover the principles of creating custom dialogs and transferring data between C++ variables and the controls. We also describe the wxWidgets resource system, which enables you to load dialogs and other user interface elements from XML files.
Steps in Creating a Custom Dialog
When you start writing your own specialized dialogs, the fun really starts. Here are the steps you’ll typically need to take:
1. Derive a new class from wxDialog.
2. Decide where ...
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