Help with RC file from beginner- don't know where to start

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I'm trying to find the code that's executed when a button in a dialog is
pushed.

In my AppMaster.rc file, I have a Dialog folder with IDD_DIALOGBAR1 and
IDD_DIALOGBAR2 .

When I click on IDD_DIALOGBAR1, I can see that it has a button with text
"Accept". If I view the rc file through a text editor, the button says:

PUSHBUTTON "Accept ",ID__BUTTON4,67,86,50,14,0,WS_EX_STATICEDGE

Where can I find the code that's executed when I click on this button? The
code's not in the RC file. It has to be somewhere else.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
When I click on IDD_DIALOGBAR1, I can see that it has a button with text
"Accept". If I view the rc file through a text editor, the button says:

PUSHBUTTON "Accept ",ID__BUTTON4,67,86,50,14,0,WS_EX_STATICEDGE

Where can I find the code that's executed when I click on this button? The
code's not in the RC file. It has to be somewhere else.
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I'd expect to find it in the .cpp source file that contains the code
for the dialog (IDD_DIALOGBAR1). If this is a VC++ MFC application
you'll probably have a class for that dialog, and there will be a
message map (a lookup table) that associates ID__BUTTON4 to a class
method that's called when the button is clicked.

If the project is a more traditional SDK based application, there will
be a dialog handler that catches WM_COMMAND messages, one of which
will be for ID__BUTTON4.

Either way, if you search for ID__BUTTON4 in your source code files,
you should find the code that's invoked.

Dave
 
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