About dialog box objects

Dialog box objects are interface objects that encapsulate the behavior of dialog boxes.

The TDialog class supports initializing, creating, and executing of all types of dialog boxes. As with window objects derived from TDialog, you can derive specialized dialog box objects from TDialog for each dialog box your application uses.

ObjectWindows also supplies classes that encapsulate Windows' common dialog boxes. Windows provides common dialog boxes as a way to let users choose file names, fonts, colors, and so on.

To use dialog box objects, you will be performing the following tasks:

• Using dialog box objects
• Using a dialog box as your main window
• Manipulating controls in dialog boxes
• Associating interface objects with controls
• Using common dialog boxes