Chapter 11. Dialog Boxes
Dialog boxes are most often used for obtaining additional input from the user beyond what can be easily managed through a menu. The programmer indicates that a menu item invokes a dialog box by adding an ellipsis (…) to the menu item.
A dialog box generally takes the form of a popup window containing various child window controls. The size and placement of these controls are specified in a “dialog box template” in the program’s resource script file. Although a programmer can define a dialog box template “manually,” these days dialog boxes are usually interactively designed in the Visual C++ Developer Studio. Developer Studio then generates the dialog template.
When a program invokes a dialog box based on a template, Microsoft ...
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