Hello.

Is there way to display windows dialog box with D?
My attempts to create a dialog box without dialog template failed and I don't know how to create/link one for D... What I can think of is to create a dll with dialog resources and load them in D. But this is kind-a-ugly...

"bobef" <bobef@paintballforce.com> wrote in message news:cu5ihd$1edq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hello.
>
> Is there way to display windows dialog box with D?
> My attempts to create a dialog box without dialog template failed and I
> don't know how to create/link one for D... What I can think of is to
> create a dll with dialog resources and load them in D. But this is
> kind-a-ugly...

To create a modal dialog without using a template you call CreateWindow with
an owner, add the controls you need and then loop and process messages by
hand. See for example the Dialog class in MinWin
http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/minwin/.
If you just want a warning or error dialog you can just call MessageDialog,
too.

-Ben

bobef wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there way to display windows dialog box with D? My attempts to create a dialog box without dialog template failed and I don't know how to create/link one for D... What I can think of is to create a dll with dialog resources and load them in D. But this is kind-a-ugly...

What do you mean by "dialog template"?

AIUI, in the Windows API documentation "template" is pretty much synoymous with "resource".  So if you're meaning this, then not only is creating a dll with dialog resources kind-a-ugly, it's also out of your question.

OTOH, if you mean something else, why not just link the resources directly into the EXE, as is the normal way?

Stewart.

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