Chapter 16

Working with Dialogs and Controls

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

  • How to create dialog resources
  • How to add controls to a dialog
  • The basic varieties of controls available
  • How to create a dialog class to manage a dialog
  • How to program the creation of a dialog box, and how to get information back from the controls in it
  • What are modal and modeless dialogs
  • How to implement and use direct data exchange and validation with controls
  • How to implement view-scaling
  • How to use the status bar in an application

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

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