May 2014
Beginner
960 pages
26h 46m
English
Content preview from Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2013
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Chapter 16Working with Dialogs and Controls
- How to create dialog resources
- How to add controls to a dialog
- The basic varieties of controls available
- How to create a dialog class to manage a dialog
- How to program the creation of a dialog box, and how to get information back from the controls in it
- What are modal and modeless dialogs
- How to implement and use direct data exchange and validation with controls
- How to implement view-scaling
- How to use the status bar in an application
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UNDERSTANDING DIALOGS
Of course, dialogs are not new to you. Most Windows programs of consequence use dialogs to manage some of their data input. You click a menu item and up pops a dialog with various controls that you use for entering information. Just about everything that appears in a dialog is a control. A dialog is actually a window and each control in a dialog is also a specialized window. Come to think of it, an application window under Microsoft Windows is composed almost entirely of windows within windows.
You need two things to create and display a dialog in an MFC program: the physical appearance of the dialog, which you define as a resource, and a dialog class object that you use to ...
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