Overview: Dialog Editor

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Use the Dialog editor to create or edit dialog boxes. You can store a dialog box as a template so you can reuse it. And you can easily switch between designing the dialog box and editing the code that implements it.

With the Dialog editor, you can:

  • Add, arrange, or edit controls.

  • Change the tab order.

  • Use guides in the dialog box layout.

  • Test a dialog box.

  • Create Windows message handlers for the dialog box or its controls.

  • Jump to the code that implements the dialog box and its controls.

You can use resource templates to create dialog boxes to use later, or copy dialog box resources. For more information, see Using Resource Templates.

Tip   While using the Dialog editor, in many instances you can click the right mouse button to display a shortcut menu of frequently-used commands. The commands available depend on what the pointer is pointing to.

What do you want to know more about?

Common resource editing procedures

Adding controls to dialog boxes

Arranging controls on dialog boxes

Types of dialog box controls

What do you want to do?

Add or edit controls in a dialog box

Format the layout of a dialog box

Edit a dialog box

Find control labels or IDs

Switch between the Dialog editor and code

Test a dialog box