Easy Dialog Pop up question

Please help me with this.

An SDI Application based off of a database in Microsoft Access. In order to collect information, and make the application user friendly, I've added buttons to optional information that pops up a new window. Problem is, I can't figure it out. I have added a class for each pop-up and it has its own header file. What's my next step in order to assign the dialog to the button? In some books it tells me to add a line like this:

Code:

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#include "Dialog*.h"

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Is this correct or am I to do something else. I am a beginner programmer, and can't figure this out. Thanks for your help.

if im not wrong
you will have to add the header file of the dialog and at then button coding .


dialog* n_dlg;
n_dlg.DoModel();


this shoud be able to do it

Could you explain how to use that? I know that in the Program.cpp file at the top I add

Code:

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#include "dialog1.h"

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. Now, for Button #1 I add this

Code:

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//To do: Add extra Initialization Here
dialog* n_dlg;
n_dlg.DoModel();

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. How does that work? Is the "*" supposed to be replaced with my dialog name, IDD_DIALOG1, IDD_DIALOG2, etc, so it should look like this?

Code:

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//To Do: Add Extra Initialization Code Here
dialogIDD_DIALOG1 n_dlg;
n_dlg.DoModel();

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I'm a little confused. THanks for the help though.

If you are using MFC this is a way to do it.

If the name of your dialog that you want to open is Dialog1 you add this (as you said) in the top of the program.cpp

#include "Dialog1.h"

You then add a member variable OR pointer to that Dialog in your CView class..like this

Member variable "CDialog1 m_dDialog1;"
Pointer "CDialog1 *pDialog1;"

Now all you have to do is to call the method DoModal to open the dialog.

m_dDialog1.DoModal();
or
pDialog1->DoModal();

If you want to do something when the user close the dialog you can do this

Code:

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if(m_dDialog1.DoModal() == IDOK)
{
    DoSomething();
}

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You don't need to declare your dialog as a pointer unless you're using the modeless function to call the dialog.

Thank you for all of your help. So far, I think that it works. I can't run my application because it doesn't "create an empty document", or atleast that's the error that comes up. If you could help, go over to my other post called .Database Access Problem. Thanks for all your help