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NF:winuser.CreateDialogParamA

CreateDialogParamA function (winuser.h)

Creates a modeless dialog box from a dialog box template resource. (ANSI)

CreateDialogParamA

winuser/CreateDialogParamA

dlgbox\createdialogparam.htm

dlgbox

VS|winui|~\winui\windowsuserinterface\windowing\dialogboxes\dialogboxreference\dialogboxfunctions\createdialogparam.htm

12/05/2018

CreateDialogParam, CreateDialogParam function [Dialog Boxes], CreateDialogParamA, CreateDialogParamW, _win32_CreateDialogParam, _win32_createdialogparam_cpp, dlgbox.createdialogparam, winui._win32_createdialogparam, winuser/CreateDialogParam, winuser/CreateDialogParamA, winuser/CreateDialogParamW

winuser.h

Windows.h

Windows

Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]

Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]

CreateDialogParamW (Unicode) and CreateDialogParamA (ANSI)

User32.lib

User32.dll

Windows

19H1

CreateDialogParamA

winuser/CreateDialogParamA

c++

APIRef

kbSyntax

DllExport

User32.dll

Ext-MS-Win-NTUser-DialogBox-l1-1-0.dll

Ext-MS-Win-NTUser-DialogBox-l1-1-1.dll

ext-ms-win-ntuser-dialogbox-l1-1-2.dll

CreateDialogParam

CreateDialogParamA

CreateDialogParamW

ext-ms-win-ntuser-dialogbox-l1-1-0 (introduced in Windows 8)

CreateDialogParamA function

-description

Creates a modeless dialog box from a dialog box template resource. Before displaying the dialog box, the function passes an application-defined value to the dialog box procedure as the lParam parameter of the WM_INITDIALOG message. An application can use this value to initialize dialog box controls.

-parameters

-param hInstance [in, optional]

Type: HINSTANCE

A handle to the module which contains the dialog box template. If this parameter is NULL, then the current executable is used.

-param lpTemplateName [in]

Type: LPCTSTR

The dialog box template. This parameter is either the pointer to a null-terminated character string that specifies the name of the dialog box template or an integer value that specifies the resource identifier of the dialog box template. If the parameter specifies a resource identifier, its high-order word must be zero and low-order word must contain the identifier. You can use the MAKEINTRESOURCE macro to create this value.

-param hWndParent [in, optional]

Type: HWND

A handle to the window that owns the dialog box.

-param lpDialogFunc [in, optional]

Type: DLGPROC

A pointer to the dialog box procedure. For more information about the dialog box procedure, see DialogProc.

-param dwInitParam [in]

Type: LPARAM

The value to be passed to the dialog box procedure in the lParam parameter in the WM_INITDIALOG message.

-returns

Type: HWND

If the function succeeds, the return value is the window handle to the dialog box.

If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

-remarks

The CreateDialogParam function uses the CreateWindowEx function to create the dialog box. CreateDialogParam then sends a WM_INITDIALOG message (and a WM_SETFONT message if the template specifies the DS_SETFONT or DS_SHELLFONT style) to the dialog box procedure. The function displays the dialog box if the template specifies the WS_VISIBLE style. Finally, CreateDialogParam returns the window handle of the dialog box.

After CreateDialogParam returns, the application displays the dialog box (if it is not already displayed) using the ShowWindow function. The application destroys the dialog box by using the DestroyWindow function. To support keyboard navigation and other dialog box functionality, the message loop for the dialog box must call the IsDialogMessage function.

Note

The winuser.h header defines CreateDialogParam as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.