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**Gregery D Engle** · 28 Aug 2000, 08:58 AM

#DIM ALL <---- Forces you to declare variables same as
option explict in VB
#REGISTER NONE <---- The #REGISTER metastatement determines the method of
automatic allocation of register variables when you
disable this you can allocate register variables by
the REGISTER keyword
hDlg <---- Identifier for DDT Dialog

DlgProc <---- Function Windows calls when sonmething
happens on your Dialog (called Events)

You need to get a good Windows API Book, if you search these
fourms a few will pop up.

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**Erwin van de Wiel** · 28 Aug 2000, 11:28 PM

1. At the end of the pbmain function there is a very important line
DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg CALL DlgProc, what this means is,
"Show the dialog modal and let DlgProc handle all the messages"
So you internally DlgProc already gets the handle of hdlg internally.

2. %IDC_TEXT is the unique identifier for the textbox. It's more usefull
to use constant declares, because names make more sense then numbers.

4. Callback means: "if something happens with hdlg then call DlgProc"

5. These messages are like (4) for example when the dialog is initialising
everything after CASE %WM_INITDIALOG will be executed.

6. Because everything from hdlg is passed to DlgProc the handlers of
buttons or text fields are also passed to DlgProc. So when you
press the ok button then that event is being catched by DlgProc
CASE %WM_COMMAND <-- A button is pressed
SELECT CASE LOWRD(CBWPARAM) <-- get the loword of the parameter passed
CASE %IDOK <-- If the button is the ok button the do the things after this case

7. DIALOG END CBHNDL End the dialog.

Good luck with your powerbasic exploration

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**Lance Edmonds** · 28 Aug 2000, 11:36 PM

Joe, are you a registered PowerBASIC customer? You may also wish to try using the "search" feature of this BBS, as much information can be found in 30,000+ message base here.

That said, we are here to help you get started, but you also have to take it upon yourself to read the documentation...

To answer some of your questions:

1. hDlg is set as a long in Function PBMAIN but it not defind in Callback FUNCTION DlgProc can this be replaced with with a an verible?

In the callback function, you can identify the handle of the dialog that 'owns' the control with the CBHNDL function, and obtain the ID of the control originating a message with the CBCTL function. Also of importance is the CBCTLMSG function... it identifes the message that the callback is processing.

2. This line uses %IDC_TEXT in this book in the syntax has this as unique identifier for the control it is set up to 101 in this example. what dose this control?

Each DDT control can use a programmer-defined ID (identity) value. When Windows crates a control it assigns it a handle whose value is not predictable, but by using a programmer-assigned ID, the control *can* be identifed. If the dialog handle (hDlg in this example, or CBHNDL in the callback) is known, and the control's ID is known (which its is by the use of an eqate), then the Windows-assigned control handle can be obtained from Windows. See the CONTROL HANDLE statement for more information.

3. DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg CALL DlgProc I think this is call function DlgProc that is defind as a CALLBACK and pass hDlg to that function. am I right?

No. This tells windows to create the dialog identified by the value stored in 'hDlg', and that Windows should call the named callback function whenever a message for that dialog needs to be processed (such as redraw the dialog or in response to a 'click' on a control, etc).

4. In every program I see there is two Functions. I understand PBMAIN wich is like main function in c++. but the CALLBACK FUNCTION Dose it have to be a CALLBACK FUNCTION? It seems to me that CALLBACK is a type of FUNCTION what is the this meen?

A callback function is a special type function that is specifically constructed by PowerBASIC to receive the message and accompanying data associated with a message. Functionally, a CALLBACK FUNCTION is equivalent to:

Code:

FUNCTION MyCallback(BYVAL hDLg&, BYVAL wMsg&, BYVAL wParam&, BYVAL lParam&) EXPORT AS LONG

Internally, PB/DLL constructs a callback function like this, but translates the parameters in to the functions CBHNDL, CBMSG, CBWPARAM and CBLPARAM respectively.

5. what do this case do and what dose two verbal have stored in them?
CASE %WM_INITDIALOG
CASE %WM_COMMAND

These are handlers for particular messages... %WM_INITDIALOG message is sent once when a dialog is first created. %WM_COMMAND is a "notification message" sent to tell the callback that a control was clicked or something related occurred (like keyboard focus was set or lost, etc).

6. in the line CONTROL GET TEXT CBHNDL, %IDC_TEXT TO s
what dose CBHNDL do? Is it some type of veribale it use elsewhere in the

As I outlined above, CBHNDL identifies the parent dialog of the control whose ID value is %IDC_TEXT, which in this case is 101.

7. what DIALOG END CBHNDL DO?

It tells Windows to destroy the dialog identified by CBHNDL. Once this occurs, the DIALOG SHOW MODAL statement will return, and code in PBMAIN will continue (or wherever the DIALOG SHOW MODAL statement is located).

Joe, you *really* need to get an understanding of how Windows applications (and especially dialogs) operate at the O/S level for a full understanding of how DDT applications work. A good WIndows programming book like "Programming Windows" will help you immencely here. If you have a background in C or C++ (non-MFC) in Windows, you'll adapt to DDT very quickly.

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