RE: A New Keyhole Type!

The print dialog box you see in Windows applications is built into the
Windows API and when you call the API (PrintDlg()), it comes up modal. I
don't believe applications have any control over this.
Isn't this wonderful?=20
Modal dialogs are so pervasive in Windows that when Microsoft
documentation describes one of its built-in dialogs (e.g. the Color
dialog which lets you pick a color), it doesn't even bother mentioning
whether the dialog or modal or modeless. It just assumes you know it's
modal, as if God just made it that way.
We can hope that the Longhorn developers were aware there are other
possibilities in life.

-----Original Message-----
From: software-keyholes-bounces-xIg/pKzrS18HpDbxM/[email protected]
[mailto:software-keyholes-bounces-xIg/pKzrS18HpDbxM/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott
Meyers
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:31 AM
To: Software Keyholes; Software Keyholes
Subject: RE: [SK] A New Keyhole Type!


Since you know and I don't, how much more work would it be for a
developer
to put up a modeless print dialog under Windows?  Presumably the modal
Print dialog is available out of the box, right?

Scott

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