thanks! this is very useful. it would be great if you could make more examples with other windows gui elements.

all editor tools like from triplex and shadow969 should use this!

Umm, just 2 clarify on what I posted earlier (my edit time expired):

I'm not knocking you contribution, I think it's great that you were able to work this out, and I would use it if I really needed it. I'm just saying that if I were programming this sort of stuff myself, it would be easier to use the acknex.dll functions. It's mostly a matter of skill level.

I've looked into making custom dialog boxes, (modal and modeless) but I'm not getting very far. It seems that the usual way to do this is using resources (*.rc, not to be confused with gamestudio's *.wrs). I'm not very familiar with resources and don't know how to use them or even if it's possible to use them with Lite-C.
It seems making custom dialog boxes should be possible using Lite-C as the functions CreateDialogParam and DialogBoxParam are included in windows.h.
Any ideas/suggestions?

it is possible, although it takes alot of programming. You have to create the DLGTEMPLATE and DLGITEMTEMPLATE structures in memory. That means you must fill in a structure for each control on the dialog. Then pass the entire unified structure to CreateDialogIndirectParamA(...) and then call ShowWindowA(...) I'm sorry i don't have a 'C' code sample of how to do this, all i have is a BASIC version written in my own language, not much good if you aren't familiar with it.

I have gotten my own modal and modeless dialog boxes working now (all in C, no resources). Thanks S3an for the reply though.

First, thanks very much for this contribution

I noticed something however when running this in windowed mode, for me when I closed out the engine using the "X" in the top right corner, it seems as though the WndProc would not release causing the acknex.exe to continue to run. I checked System Processes in Task Manager to confirm this.

I added this case to the WndProc and it has corrected the issue:

Code:

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case WM_DESTROY:
{
  PostQuitMessage(0);
  sys_exit(NULL);
  return(0);
}

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-raiden