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From: tedb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Ted Beers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: buttons in the main window
Message-ID: <25690003@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 19 Mar 91 19:55:03 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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/ hpcvra.cv.hp.com:comp.windows.ms / dick@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Dick Bakker) /  1:43 pm  Mar 18, 1991 /
> My problem is: I want to have some controls : buttons/listboxes etc
> in my main window that can directly be selected by the user.

> I used a modeless dialog box that I positioned next to my drawing area
> but this is highlighted every time you switch from the graphics area to 
> the dialog box.

> Dick Bakker

You can create controls within your main window, without having them be
contained in a dialog box.  See the Windows SDK Guide to Programming,
Chapter 8 ("Controls"), for more information.

Ted W. Beers