Second GUI Window for WIN32

It certainly is trivial. Create the window as you would do normally, either as a popup window or as a child of your first window. I assume by your manner that you are having a problem doing just that. Perhaps you could post symptoms or even better, error messages?

I don't get any error messages or other symptoms...my window just doesn't display. I'm not a big Win32 person, so that is likely part of the problem. Basically, I created the window in Visual Studio which looks like it puts everything into a resource file. Then, I tried:

DialogBox(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_PROPPAGE_MEDIUM), HWND_DESKTOP, (DLGPROC)DialogProcess);

I'm not sure how this knows to create the specific IDD_PROPPAGE_MEDIUM that I designed or even if DialogBox is the correct function to call. The program runs just fine, opening up my OpenGL window. It just does not open the IDD_PROPPAGE_MEDIUM window that I created. What am I missing??

Moved over to the "General" Forum:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=353690

Hello,

I'm pretty sure that the problem comes from your hwnd parameter. I suggest you to use your other window handle or maybe NULL. You can check the return value of DialogBox(): if it is 0 then the problem comes from the window handle.

Note that you can avoid the storing of hInstance by using GetModuleHandle(NULL) (which will return the application HINSTANCE).

DialogBox() is used to create modal dialogs - are you sure that it is what you want to achieve? From your description, it seems that you want to have a non-modal dialog and another window running together. The function that should be used to create a modeless dialog is CreateDialog() (it shares the same parameter list, but you'll probably have to call ShowWindow() to show the dialog; you'll also have to make sure that closing the dialog will not destroy it).

HTH

CreateDialog() solved all the problems! That's what I was looking for. Thanks!