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The dialog manager, part 3: Creating the controls

March 31, 2005 Mar 31, 2005 03/31/05

Raymond Chen

This is actually a lot less work than creating the frame, believe it or not. For each control in the template, the corresponding child window is created. The control's sizes and position is specified in the template in DLUs, so of course they need to be converted to pixels. The class name and caption also come from the template. There ...

The dialog manager, part 2: Creating the frame window

March 30, 2005 Mar 30, 2005 03/30/05

Raymond Chen

The dialog template describes what the dialog box should look like, so the dialog manager walks the template and follows the instructions therein. It's pretty straightforward; there isn't much room for decision-making. You just do what the template says. For simplicity, I'm going to assume that the dialog template is an extended dialog ...

The dialog manager, part 1: Warm-ups

March 29, 2005 Mar 29, 2005 03/29/05

Raymond Chen

I think a lot of confusion about the dialog manager stems from not really understanding how it works. It's really not that bad. I'll start by describing how dialog boxes are created over the next few articles, then move on to the dialog message loop, and wrap up with some topics regarding navigation. There will be nine parts in all. The ...

Pointers to virtual functions with adjustors

March 24, 2005 Mar 24, 2005 03/24/05

Raymond Chen

As a mental exercise, let's combine two mind-numbing facts about pointers to member functions, namely that all pointers to virtual functions look the same and that pointers to member functions are very strange animals. The result may make your head explode. Consider: Here, the variable consists of a code pointer and an adjustor. The ...