Where does Windows find button text for message boxes?

[Egbert Zijlema]

Hi fellows,

Does somebody know where (and how) Windows finds the appropriate text for messagebox buttons?
For instance, if you only specify the style flag %MB_OKCANCEL then Windows not only 'knows' that the messagebox should have 2 buttons, but also that their content should be "OK" and "Cancel" respectively.
I guess this information is in USER32.DLL, but I don't know how to retrieve it. Most likely it is an undocumented FUNCTION?

Thanks for any help or hint.



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[Matthew Berg]

I suspect this text is not located in a single place (or at least in a place where it is accessable to third-party developers). For example, when I opened SHELL32.DLL in a resource viewer and searched the Dialog resources, every dialog resource that used an OK button defined a button object with the text "OK" on it, every dialog that used a Cancel button defined a button object with the text "Cancel" on it, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the MessageBox() API function dynamically created in memory a dialog resource with the necessary button objects and set their text as required, rather than using a static resource from a library.

[Lance Edmonds]

Even if it did, it seems logical that the API would dynamically alter the text to suit the current language set anyway, but leave it untouched in US/English language...


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