DialogID

[michaelk]

Is there a list of DialogIDs?

mk

[maarten.]

As far as i know, the DialogID isn't a CONST, it's a VAR that you'll get with the function CreateLayout().

[michaelk]

Got it. So there's no significance to the value of the ID? It just indexes every time a dialog box is run?

mk

[JBenghiat]

It's kind of like a handle. The longint ID seems to be a frequent occurrence in more recent API calls -- resource lists, for example.

Because the dialog ID generates with CreateLayout, you could in theory run two identical dialogs at the same time, each created with its own ID.

-Josh

[MullinRJ]

you could in theory run two identical dialogs at the same time, each created with its own ID

It's more than theory. I do this for a special case in Reshaper; open a second dialog from inside a first dialog. It may not be the best interface design, but it may work for some instances.

The dialogID allows you to have the same item numbers in multiple dialogs. If this were not the case, confusion would ensue if you tried to modify an item number that existed in multiple dialogs.

The idea of the dialogID acting as a HANDLE to the dialog window is exactly the right way to think of it. It's assigned at runtime when the dialog opens, and disappears when the dialog closes.

Raymond