Chapter 10. Dialogs
If you want to be noticed, you must find a way to attract attention to yourself. Whether your goal is to woo a potential sweetheart or market a new invention, it’s impossible to succeed if your target isn’t aware of your efforts. The same principle holds for software. If your program needs something from the user, it must find a way to draw that user’s attention to itself. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this, but the most common is to present the user with a dialog box. A dialog box is a window that is separate from your application’s main window. When this window is placed in front ...
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