first windows program

Hi, I've started to learn Windows programming and wrote first
program:

Code:

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#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                    PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
    MessageBox (NULL, TEXT ("Hello, Windows 98!"), TEXT ("HelloMsg"), 0) ;

    return 0 ;
}

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I) have question regarding MessageBox:
when 0 is last argument button OK will show up, I can put something else,
for example: MB_YESNOCANCEL. My native language is not english so my question is how to change button to display text which on my language means Cancel?
Is it possible without making new form and adding buttons to simulate MessageBox?
Thanks

What's the language of your windows os? If you are using english version windows, I think it is relativly hard to do this, because messagebox is an API of windows system, you may use API inspecting technology to do it. Anyway, I think the easy way is to make a new form.
That is only what I know, maybe it exists some wonder methods.

Language is english and code page is Croatian. I thought definition for that buttons is in some header file and to change there, but I guess, I'll make new form.
I don't know really what is API so I must spend some time to understed how it works
Thanks

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Originally Posted by Micko

Language is english and code page is Croatian. I thought definition for that buttons is in some header file and to change there, but I guess, I'll make new form.
I don't know really what is API so I must spend some time to understed how it works
Thanks

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Seems like you'll need to do it by yourself. Or download WINE and build
something similar looking at their code. I always hated dialogs with
just Yes/No/OK etc. It is much better and safer for the user to have a button
that sais "Delete", "Add", "Close", "Don't save" etc.

It looks like you could use xMsgBox.

Code:

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int iRet;
X_MSG_BOX_PARAMS xmb = { 0 };

xmb.szTitle  = TEXT("Sleep or Eat?");
xmb.dwStyle  = MB_ICONQUESTION | MB_DEFBUTTON2;
xmb.hwnd    = NULL;
xmb.szPrompt = TEXT("What would you like to do today?");

// Set number of custom buttons(0 - 3)...
xmb.dwCountButtons = 2;

// Set button captions...
xmb.szButtonCaptions[0] = TEXT("Eat!");
xmb.szButtonCaptions[1] = TEXT("Sleep!");

iRet = XMsgBox(&xmb);

printf("Button Number %d was pressed by the user.\n", iRet);

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[Note: Screenshot is from a similar sample available in the zip.]

Thanks very much for help