A dialog region is a rectangular portion of the screen into which dialog control objects can be drawn. Dialog regions cannot have any other contents. A dialog region can be a primary region.

 

Note that a response to char or response to line from keyboard cannot be taken while in a dialog box or a dialog region.

 

The initial attributes of a dialog region are defined in the dialog region statement. (You can change some of these attributes during runtime.)

 

A dialog region can be used wherever a graphical, image, or textual region can be used, and it can have any of the window frame attributes (title bar, action bar, etc.) that can be used in these regions.

 

Note that dialog regions do not allow color borders.

 

The coordinates used in the definition of a dialog region, and therefore its children, are dialog units.