Dialog System User Guide

Table of Contents

Index

Chapter 6: Using Dialog

• 6.1 What is Dialog?
  • 6.1.1 Comments
  • 6.1.2 Levels of Dialog
    • 6.1.2.1 Control Dialog
    • 6.1.2.2 Window Dialog
    • 6.1.2.3 Global Dialog
    • 6.1.2.4 Where to Locate Your Dialog Statements
  • 6.1.3 Types of Dialog
    • 6.1.3.1 Events
      • 6.1.3.1.1 How Dialog System Searches for Event Dialog
    • 6.1.3.2 Functions
    • 6.1.3.3 Procedures
• 6.2 Special Registers
• 6.3 Important Dialog Events and Functions
  • 6.3.1 Initializing the Screenset
  • 6.3.2 Window Dialog
    • 6.3.2.1 Creating a Window
    • 6.3.2.2 Showing the First Window
    • 6.3.2.3 Showing a Window
    • 6.3.2.4 Unshowing a Window
    • 6.3.2.5 Changing the Default Parent Window
    • 6.3.2.6 Deleting a Window
    • 6.3.2.7 Setting the Focus on a Window
    • 6.3.2.8 Moving a Window
    • 6.3.2.9 Changing the Title of a Window
    • 6.3.2.10 Closing the Window
  • 6.3.3 Pressing Buttons
    • 6.3.3.1 Setting and Getting Button States
  • 6.3.4 Menu Bar Dialog
    • 6.3.4.1 Enabling and Disabling Choices
    • 6.3.4.2 Selecting Menu Choices
  • 6.3.5 Validating Input
  • 6.3.6 Using Procedures
  • 6.3.7 Returning Control to the Calling Program
  • 6.3.8 Regaining Control from the Calling Program
• 6.4 Events Trapped by the Windows Operating System
• 6.5 Sample Programs
• 6.6 Sample Dialog