Subj : Re: beginning dialog boxes (3)
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <ed@mulroyREMOVETHESECHARS.org>
Date : Thu Sep 18 2003 09:29 pm

The compiler documentation documents the compiler and tools.  That is a
large enough job in itself.  It is not intended as a tutorial on how to
write programs for Windows.  It would probably be best to buy a book on
Windows.  Petzold's series of books "Programming Windows *" where the '*'
varies with editions is a good one.

One gentleman already told you about the examples using OWL, Object Windows
Library.  An example of a straight Windows API program with a dialog box is
below.  Create a project for a Win32 target, add these files to the project,
build and run it.

-----File DEMO.CPP------
#define STRICT
#include <windows.h>
#include "demo.rh"

BOOL CALLBACK DlgProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM)
  {
  static char endmsg[132] = "";

  switch (msg)
    {
    case WM_INITDIALOG :
      {
      SetDlgItemText(hwnd, IDC_EDIT1,
          "Write something into this control");
      break;
      }
    case WM_COMMAND :
      {
      switch (LOWORD(wParam))
        {
        case IDC_PUSHBUTTON1 :
          {
          MessageBox(hwnd,
              "You pressed the middle button", "", MB_OK);
          break;
          }
        case IDOK :
          {
          lstrcpy(endmsg, "You pressed Ok");
          } // fall through
        case IDCANCEL :
          {
          if (!endmsg[0])
            lstrcpy(endmsg, "You pressed Esc or Cancel");

          MessageBox(hwnd, endmsg, "", MB_OK);
          GetDlgItemText(hwnd, IDC_EDIT1,
              endmsg, sizeof(endmsg) - 1);
          EndDialog(hwnd, (int) endmsg);
          break;
          }
        }
      break;
      }
    }

  return FALSE;
  }

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
  {
  char *s = (char *)
    DialogBox(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(DIALOG_1), HWND_DESKTOP, DlgProc);

  MessageBox(HWND_DESKTOP, s, "You typed in this", MB_OK);
  return 0;
  }
-----File DEMO.RC-------
#include "demo.rh"
DIALOG_1 DIALOG 6, 15, 194, 119
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION
CAPTION "Dialog Box Caption"
FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
{
 DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK", IDOK, 27, 94, 50, 14
 PUSHBUTTON "Cancel", IDCANCEL, 110, 94, 50, 14
 PUSHBUTTON "Push Me", IDC_PUSHBUTTON1, 72, 48, 50, 14
 EDITTEXT IDC_EDIT1, 42, 20, 126, 12
}
-----File DEMO.RH-------
#define DIALOG_1        1
#define IDC_PUSHBUTTON1 101
#define IDC_EDIT1       102
-------------------

..  Ed

> Rob C wrote in message
> news:3f6a264f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> Am I in the right group for this question???
>
> target type - application  //these are my settings. Are they
> right?
> platform - win32
>
> This is very frustrating! I feel that I can create/design a
> dialog boxes (*.rc file), but I still can’t figure out how to
> put them into my program. Is there an example program somebody
> else wrote that I could study? There should be a basic, step-by-
> step tutorial for beginners like me. If there is, where is it?

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