Hi again.
I want to use dialog-windows in my application. since I don't want to follow the rather prcedural way of coding that microsoft uses in Win32-API I want to build a c++-class that encapsulates a dialog-window.

For some reasons related to this, I don't want to use dialog-ressources.

I found out about CreateDialogIndirect but it is not too coder-friendly. I have to build some weird thing that is called dialog-template in memory. At

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/Windowing/DialogBoxes/UsingDialogBoxes.asp#template_in_memory

I found an example to do this. This looks also weird to me.

I think this is definitely not what I want to do. Those dialog-boxes are somewhat inflexible for my needs. For example I want to add controls to my dialog-instance using a member-function of my class like AddControl().

Enough talk about what I don't like ;)
Now I thought about the following: Why not build the dialog from a simple window ? I'm sure I can make it modal too like a modal dialog.

Before I start with this, please tell me: What are the advantages of using CreateDialog or CreateDialogIndirect over my idea, if there are any ? Am I following a possible path, or should return to the regular path ?

Thanks in advance:

highhead

ps: on the system where I started coding, dialogs ARE simple windows made modal.