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In article <1992Oct13.143600.13108@fics.uucp>, kro@fics.uucp writes:
|> I would like to create an ordinary window containing the exact same items 
|> that a dialogbox would, and then call some function which should return 
|> when a specified event occurrs.
|> 
|> I need to know what I should put into this function to make it appear as
|> a blocking operation (like the DialogBox call).
|> 
|> Knut

Your function needs its own message loop, something like this...

   ...
   while (!time_to_exit)
      {
      MSG msg;

      while (PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
         {
         TranslateMessage(&msg);
         DispatchMessage(&msg);
         }
      }
   ...

where 'time_to_exit' may be a global variable that is set when an appropriate
action occurs in your "dialog" window.  Note that you may need more than just
the translate/dispatch here depending on your application -- e.g. you may
need to check for dialog messages and/or accelerators.


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