Opening another window in Visual C++

[J3WU]

Hello, I'm a new programmer to Visual C++. Currently I'm working on a project and am having trouble trying to figure out how I can open another form from the first one. Thanks for the help.

 

[Leibnitz]

you can use the fonction "ShellExecute".
Here is a little example on how you can use it:

#include <windows.h>
#include <shellapi.h>
int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
ShellExecute (NULL,&quot;open&quot;,&quot;path_to_file&quot;,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
return 0;
}

you need to replace path_to_file with the convenient path.

 

[J3WU]

Thank you Leibnitz! But you answered another question of mine. Perhaps I wasn't very clear. On my main form I have a menu. I want the menu to open another form so that the user can manipulate my program's optoins. Any ideas?

 

[BlackHorus]

u mean open a dialogbox...

Create one with ressource editor, then call it with
DialogBox().

the dialog need to have a windows procedre, but it would
return false, rather than calling DefWindowProc().