Make sure that your dialog box design determined by its purpose, type, and user interaction matches its usage determined by its context, probability of user action, and frequency of display. Don't use scrollable dialog boxes. Don't use dialog boxes that require the use of a scroll bar to be viewed completely during normal usage. Redesign the dialog box instead. Consider using progressive disclosure or tabs. Don't have a menu bar or status bar.
Instead, provide access to commands and status directly on the dialog box itself, or by using context menus on the relevant controls. If a dialog box requires immediate attention and the program isn't active, flash its taskbar button three times to draw attention, and leave it highlighted. Don't do anything else: don't restore or activate the window and don't play any sound effects. Instead, respect the user's window state selection and let the user activate the window when ready.
For more guidelines and examples, see Taskbar. The input page is optional because the task may have been initiated somewhere else. Doing so gives the resulting experience a stable, simple, lightweight feel. To make dialog boxes easy to find and access, clearly associate the dialog with its source, and work well with multiple monitors:. In this example, Windows Media Player changes its format when the window becomes too small for the standard format.
For more information and examples, see Window Management. When displayed, user initiated dialog boxes should always take input focus. Program initiated dialog boxes shouldn't take input focus because the user may be interacting with another window.
Such interaction misdirected at the dialog box may have unintended consequences. Assign initial input focus to the control that users are most likely to interact with first , which is usually but not always the first interactive control.
Avoid assigning initial input focus to a Help link. For keyboard navigation, tab order should flow in a logical order, generally from left to right, top to bottom. Usually tab order follows reading order, but consider making these exceptions:. When assigning order, assume that users display dialog boxes for their intended purpose; so, for example, users display choice dialogs to make choices, not to review and click Cancel.
Pressing the Esc key always closes an active dialog box. This is true for dialog boxes with Cancel or Close, and even if Cancel has been renamed to Close because the results can no longer be undone. Whenever possible, assign unique access keys to all interactive controls or their labels. Read-only text boxes are interactive controls because users can scroll them and copy text so they benefit from access keys.
Don't assign access keys to:. OK, Cancel, and Close buttons. Enter and Esc are used for their access keys. However, always assign an access key to a control that means OK or Cancel, but has a different label. Group labels. Normally, the individual controls within a group are assigned access keys, so the group label doesn't need one. However, if there is a shortage of access keys, assign an access key to the group label and not the individual controls. Link labels. There are often too many links to assign unique access keys, and the underscores often used to signify links hide the access key underscores.
Access links with the Tab key instead. Browse buttons labeled " These Browse buttons can't be assigned access keys uniquely. Unlabeled controls, such as spin controls, graphic command buttons, and unlabeled progressive disclosure controls. Non-label static text or labels for controls that aren't interactive, such as progress bars. Whenever possible, assign access keys for commonly used commands according to the Standard Access Key Assignments.
While consistent access key assignments aren't always possible, they are certainly preferred especially for frequently used dialog boxes. Assign commit button access keys first to ensure that they have the standard key assignments. If there isn't a standard key assignment, use the first letter of the first word. For example, the access key for Yes and No commit buttons should always be "Y" and "N", regardless of the other controls in the dialog box.
To make access keys easy to find, assign the access keys to a character that appears early in the label, ideally the first character, even if there is a keyword that appears later in the label. Avoid using characters that make the underline difficult to see, such as from most problematic to least problematic :. For more guidelines and examples, see Keyboard. For long-running tasks, assume that users will do something else while the task is completing.
Design the task to run unattended. In this example, Windows Explorer allows users to continue with the task after a recoverable error. Don't use a notification for completion feedback. Use either a progress dialog or an action success notification , but not both. This compact format shows the most important information first so that it isn't truncated on the taskbar.
For more information and examples, see Progress Bars. In this example, a warning icon is incorrectly used for a question that doesn't involve potential loss of data or system access. In this example, the yellow star icon represents Favorites. The icon is easily recognizable and is used consistently throughout Windows to represent Favorites. For more information and examples, see Icons. Don't confirm commit buttons. Doing so unnecessarily can be very annoying. For more guidelines and examples, see Confirmations.
Right-align commit buttons in a single row across the bottom of the dialog box, but above the footnote area. Do this even if there is a single commit button such as OK. Have a clear separation from commit buttons which close the window and all other command buttons such as Advanced. Users should be able to understand the options by reading the button text alone. Use Close for dialogs that don't have settings, such as informational dialogs. Never use Close for dialogs that have settings.
You can customize an Explorer-style Open or Save As dialog box by providing a hook procedure, a custom template, or both. If you provide a hook procedure for an Explorer-style dialog box, the system creates a dialog box that is a child of the default dialog box.
The hook procedure acts as the dialog procedure for the child dialog box. This child dialog box is based on the custom template, or on a default template if none is provided. For more information, see Explorer-Style Custom Templates.
An Explorer-style hook procedure receives a variety of messages while the dialog box is open. These include the following:. In addition, there is a set of messages that you can send to an Explorer-style dialog box to get information or to control the behavior and appearance of the dialog box.
You can use some of these messages to control the behavior of the dialog box. In response to this message, the hook procedure can use the SetWindowLong function to reject the selected name and force the dialog box to remain open. The code member in the header of this structure contains one of the following notification messages. To retrieve information about the status of the dialog box or to control the behavior and appearance of the dialog box, the hook procedure can send the following messages to the dialog box.
Typically, if you provide additional controls, you must also provide an Explorer-style hook procedure to process messages for the new controls. To make room for the new controls, the system expands the default dialog box by the width and height of the custom dialog box. By default, all controls from the custom dialog box are positioned below the controls in the default dialog box. However, you can override this default positioning by including a static text control in your custom dialog box template and assigning it the control identifier value of stc This value is defined in the Dlgs.
In this case, the system uses the control as the point of reference for determining where to position the new controls. All new controls above and to the left of the stc32 control are positioned the same amount above and to the left of the controls in the default dialog box. New controls below and to the right of the stc32 control are positioned below and to the right of the default controls.
In general, each new control is positioned so that it has the same position relative to the default controls as it had to the stc32 control. To make room for these new controls, the system adds space to the left, right, bottom, and top of the default dialog box as needed. The system requires the hook procedure to process all messages intended for the custom dialog box and therefore sends the same window messages to the hook procedure as to any other dialog box procedure.
The hook procedure is responsible for initializing these controls and retrieving values from the controls when the dialog box is closed. The default dialog box procedure handles messages for all the controls in the default dialog box, but the hook procedure receives the notification messages for user actions on these controls as described in Explorer-Style Hook Procedures.
The Windows Software Development Kit SDK provides the default dialog box template for the old-style dialog boxes, but does not include the default template for the Explorer-style dialog boxes. This is because the Explorer-style dialog boxes allow you to add your own controls but do not support modifying the template for the standard controls.
However, in some cases, you may need to know the control identifiers used in the default templates. The following table shows the identifiers of the standard controls in the Explorer-style Open and Save As dialog boxes. The identifiers are constants defined in Dlgs. You can customize an old-style Open or Save As dialog box by providing an OFNHookProcOldStyle hook procedure that receives messages or notifications intended for the default dialog box procedure.
You can also provide a custom template to use in place of the default template. The hook procedures and templates used with the old-style dialog boxes are similar to those used with the other common dialog boxes.
Create the custom template by modifying the default template specified in the Fileopen. The control identifiers used in the default Find and Replace dialog templates are defined in the Dlgs. Skip to main content.
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