The evolution of dialog templates – Summary
As promised, here’s the tabular version of the evolution of dialog templates. It doesn’t contain any new information, but it may give you a little glimpse into how things evolved to see the small changes highlighted against each other.
| 16-bit classic | 32-bit classic | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16-bit extended | 32-bit extended | ||
| Header | style 8-bit item count coordinates |
extended style, style 16-bit item count coordinates |
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| help ID, extended style, style 8-bit item count coordinates |
help ID, extended style, style 16-bit item count coordinates |
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| Menu | ASCIIZ or ordinal | UNICODEZ or ordinal | |
| ASCIIZ or ordinal | UNICODEZ or ordinal | ||
| Class | ASCIIZ or ordinal | UNICODEZ or ordinal | |
| ASCIIZ or ordinal | UNICODEZ or ordinal | ||
| Caption | ASCIIZ | UNICODEZ | |
| ASCIIZ | UNICODEZ | ||
| Font (if DS_SETFONT) |
size ASCIIZ font name |
size UNICODEZ font name |
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| size, weight, italic, charset ASCIIZ font name |
size, weight, italic, charset UNICODEZ font name |
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| Item template alignment | BYTE | DWORD | |
| BYTE | DWORD | ||
| Item templates | size, position 16-bit ID style class, ASCIIZ text/ordinal 8-bit extra data |
size, position 16-bit ID extended style, style class, UNICODEZ text/ordinal 16-bit extra data |
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| size, position 32-bit ID help ID, extended style, style class, ASCIIZ text/ordinal 16-bit extra data |
size, position 32-bit ID help ID, extended style, style class, UNICODEZ text/ordinal 16-bit extra data |
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