Dialog Box from within a dll without MFC

[tonyxxy]

Hi all,

Can someone provide an example on how to show a Dialog Box from within a dll without using MFC?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

tonyxxy

[Codeplug]

Using Dialog Boxes

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[tonyxxy]

Showing a Modal Dialog Box from a regular WIN32 exe works perfect. However when I try to create a Dialog Box from within a dll, the Dialog doesn't appear at all. I really don't know what I could been doing wrong, so a simple example would be highly appreciated.

Thanks again.

Regards,

tonyxxy

[Codeplug]

The only difference is you call LoadLibrary() on the DLL containing the dialog resource and use the return value from LoadLibrary() as the hInstance parameter to any of the dialog creation functions.

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[tonyxxy]

So if I understand you right, HINSTANCE is needed when creating a Dialog Box from within a dll? How come the following works in a usual WIN32 exe?

DialogBox(NULL,(LPCTSTR)IDD_ABOUTBOX,NULL, (DLGPROC)About);

Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, but I'm quite new to all this.

Regards,

tonyxxy

[Codeplug]

When you specify NULL, the system loads the resource from the process's executable image - the .exe file. If the dialog resource does not reside with in the running exe file, you'll have to provide a non-NULL hInstance.

If the DLL is already loaded into your address space, you can use GetModuleHandle() instead of LoadLibrary()/FreeLibrary().

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[tonyxxy]

It worked

Thanks again for helping me out

Regards,

tonyxxy

[JustMax]

It worked

Thanks again for helping me out

Regards,

tonyxxy

tonyxxy,
I am running into the same issue you had with creating a dialog from within a DLL. Did you get it to work? If so, would you mind sharing the DLL code with me? I learn best by example.

[Codeplug]

That was tonyxxy's last post to this website - back in 2004.

Instead of posting to a 4+ year old thread. Start a brand new thread of your own with specific details of the issues you are having, or questions you'd like answered.

But at least you searched the forums first - so you got that going for you...

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[JustMax]

Thanks Codeplug. I will do that.