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Howto: create dialogs with Venster

This Howto shows how to create and use dialogs from a (resource) DLL with Venster. At the moment an external resource compiler/dialog editor is required.
In this Howto we will use VisualC++ 6.0 to create a resource dll (see folder 'test/resdll' for an example resource dll)
The file 'test/test_dialog.py' contains an example of the following procedure:

1. Create a resource only DLL project with Visual C++, instructions can be found at MSDN

2. Use visual studio to draw/design a dialog.

3. Create a new python class derived from 'wtl.Dialog'

4. Override 'OnInitDialog' to obtain references to the controls in your dialog

5. Implement Command Handlers to perform actions in the dialog