Types of Dialog Boxes
The most common type of dialog box is a modal dialog box. When a modal dialog box is onscreen, the user cannot switch to another part of the application. By default, it limits access to the other visible windows of the application that called the dialog box. The user can still switch to other applications while the modal dialog box is displayed.
A dialog box is made system modal when you specify the WS_SYSMODAL style in the dialog box template. System modal dialog boxes also can be created by calling the SetSysModalWindow function. System modal dialog boxes take over the whole screen and are appropriate only if a serious problem exists that the user cannot ignore, such as a system error. Under Windows 2000 and Windows ...
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