Beginner GUI question

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I am writing a program in C++ and I want to add a GUI. This program
will be more of an application and the GUI will probably get fairly
complex.

I am using Microsoft Visual C++, version 6.0 (very old).

I would just as soon do it visually in the resource editor. I build a
dialogue window and MSVC++ creates a .rct file.

But now how do I call/instantiate this from my program?

The basic call appears to be

DialogBox(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_DIALOG1), NULL,
DialogueProcess)

where IDD_DIALOG1 is the name I gave it in the resource builder
(original, huh?). When I try to compile though, IDD_DIALOG1 is
undefined.

Do I need to make a header file or .rc file by hand or something? Do
I reference the dialogue in a different way? Is it a setting in the
IDE somewhere? Am I going about this in altogether the wrong way?

***

<a little off topic>

Just for the sake of my pride if nothing else ... I'm not really a
beginner, I've programmed in C, C++ and Java for years and written
dozens of GUI applications in Java Swing. I googled for basic
tutorials on Windows GUI programming and found a pretty good one
(http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/) but the author dealt with this part
by hand-editing a .rc and resources.h file himself ... there aren't
really any docs on how he did this though.


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