Thread: Dialog Box Problems

You'll need to create a new project but without any spaces in the path(s) to project files, source files, resource scripts etc. as Dev-Cpp doesn't like them.

It works now! Yah!

I had a & character in the project name and it was screwing it up. I would never have realized that was the problem if you hadn't said Dev-C++ didn't like spaces.

There were some other minor things that needed to be cleared up, such as my resource not liking me using my header with a bunch of definitions in it to define things so I had to make a new header file but no problems there.

There are two questions i have:
1. Though I can get it to work by commenting this out, by resource script says I have a problem with the line defining Style:

Code:

#include "definitions.hpp"

IDD_DLGJOIN DIALOG 260, 200, 188, 95
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_CAPTION | WS_VISIBLE
CAPTION "Join a Game"
FONT 8, "Courier New"
BEGIN
    DEFPUSHBUTTON   "OK", ID_DLGOK, 130, 10, 50, 14
END

I must be missing something becuase I see nothing wrong.

Error message:

4 C:\Dev-Cpp\OpenGL\DayandNight\dialogdata.rc [Resource error] syntax error
C:\Dev-Cpp\OpenGL\DayandNight\Makefile.win [Build Error] [DayandNight_private.res] Error 1

2. In most games today, they have their own styles when it comes to message boxes, dialogboxes, etc., so that when one pops up it is slightly transparent, has a different size, and different colors. Is this done through DialogBoxIndirect, when you create a template in the memory instead of using a resource file? Or is there some other easier way to do it?

Alright thanks everyone for your help.

What is wrong with this:

Code:

PUSHBUTTON 16, 208, 48, 16, "Cancel", CANCEL

Or this:

Code:

EDITTEXT 16, 16, 240, 160, mstrservermsg, READONLY | MULITLINE

Sorry I thought I was done too...

The syntax is wrong; check out msdn: resource definition statements.

Thanks a lot, the site I was using was not up to date, I was having trouble finding a page that was current.

Thanks for everything everyone , I promise that was the last question.