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Re: Who can write an inputbox.e?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jan 23, 2003
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Don,

It was Liu who actually wanted the inputbox.e, I was just commenting about
it after I tried unsuccessfully to make one.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Phillips" <EuNexus at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: Who can write an inputbox.e?


>
> > Pete,
> >
> > Hmm,
> >
> > Well, I'm thinking that the problem isn't exactly that a dialog (for an
> > inputBox) would have to create the inputbox as a child of a specific
> > window,
> > but rather that Liu's inputbox was the *main* window, which would seem
> > to be
> > undesirable.  The "messageBox" function somehow gets around having to
> > make
> > it an (explicit?) child of some window, but that's apparently by a wrap
> > of a
> > call to a .dll.
>
> I think it was stated earlier that a normal message box worked as
> intended, but it had no field for entering or returning data.
>
> If on one hand you would like to code it from scratch, I would look up
> the API call CreateDialogIndirect which creates a modeless dialog box
> from a dialog box template in memory...
>
> Or, it is possible to add controls to just about anything, including
> built in dialogs.  I do not have time to code up an example tonight, but
> it seems the easier solution would be to create an ok/cancel message box
> and add a text field to it.
>
> If you would like a working example, let me know and I will code
> something up in the next couple of days.
>
> Don
>
>
>
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