Hello All,

I've been searching for the correct way to program an application so
that it's main window will be a dialog box which I created using the
resource editor.

My problem is: how can I accomplish this ?

The help of MSVC isn't exactly clear about this, IMHO.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm going nuts :)).

Kind regards,
Bob Soeters

int Pascal WinMain(HINSTANCE hiCurrent, HINSTANCE hiPrevious,
   LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nCmdShow )
{
   DialogBox( hiCurrent, "DialogName", NULL, (DLGPROC)DialogProc);
   return 0;

Your solution makes sense, but what if I want to register a window
class on my own for dialog boxes and then use that class for my dialog
box, so I can add an icon ?

I've already tried several approaches, done everything exactly as the
help and KB of MicroSoft suggested, and it still doesn't work. I don't
know if or what I'm doing wrong.

Kind regards,
Bob Soeters

-add a CLASS "MyDialogClass" line to your dialog script resource
-register your private dialog class using DefDialogProc as the lpfnWndProc
member and DLGWINDOWEXTRA for the cbWndExtra member
-use CreateDialog to create the dialog
-call IsDialogMessage in your message pump like so:

    while ( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) > 0 ) {
        if ( !hwndDialog || !IsDialogMessage(hwndDialog, &msg) ) {
            TranslateMessage(&msg);
            DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }
    }

- return either TRUE or FALSE from your DialogFunc passed to CreateDialog as
the lpDialogFunc parameter

You need to call IsDialogMessage to get the functionality offered by Windows
for dialogs, otherwise it pretty much behaves like a standard window.

Jeremy

Thank you for this reply. I tried to do it like you suggested, and I
still not able to accomplish the wanted result.

Perhaps someone can send me some working example of a program which
consists of only one dialog box ? I'd be very pleased...

Kind Regards,
Bob Soeters