-=> Quoting Neil Heller to Jerry Coffin
 NH> dialog box in MSVC + MFC.  First I constructed a class derived from
 NH> CDialog called Modeless.  In that class I have a member pointer:
 NH> CDialog * m_pModelessDialog;
Why?  Your this pointer is already of type CDialog.  In fact, all of the
CDialog member variables are already part of Modeless!  You'll save yourself
a lot of work by leaving the derivation in place:
class Modeless : public CDialog
{
// new stuff, overriding stuff
Modeless(LPSZ lpszParam) : CDialog(lpszParam) {} //?
// or:
// Modeless(LPSZ lpszParam) { Create(lpszParam); }
};
 NH> Then in the source file:
 NH> Modeless abc;
 NH> abc.m_pModelessDialog = new Modeless;
 NH> if (!abc.m_pModelessDialog->Create(IDD_DIALOG1) {
 NH> AfxMessageBox("Dialog creation failed",MB_OK);
 NH> exit(1);
 NH> }
 NH> I keep getting a syntax error:  "cannot convert int to * char". 
 NH> "Create()" (according to the documentation) can take either type LPSZ
 NH> or int.  Can you give me a pointer in the proper direction?
Due to the wonders of the Windows API, you get to do the following:
Modeless abc((LPSZ)IDD_DIALOG1);
The constructor will call the create for you now.  You may want to have a
boolean flag catch the return from Create so you can test its success, or you
could throw an exception if Create fails, and catch it at the constructor.
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