setDialogStyleEx
Syntax
- int setDialogStyleEx(int flags)
Arguments
- flags
- An integer of bitwise flags enabling different extended window styles
Return
- Returns the previous settings of the extended flags as an integer if the function succeeds. Returns zero if it failed.
Description
- Sets (or enables) a particular extended style on a dialog. For example, you can make a window respond to drag & drop files using WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES. The [extended window style flags are defined at MSDN]. You can clear these settings later using (clearDialogStyleEx)?.
Example
// Make the dialog accept files that are dropped onto it via drag & drop
setDialogStyleEx(WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES);
See Also
- setDialogStyle, (clearDialogStyle)?, (clearDialogStyleEx)?
Comments
- Internally, SetDialogStyleEx is a wrapper around the [SetWindowLong Win32 API function] with GWL_EXSTYLE as the second parameter.