Terms

The following terms are used in this reference:

Main form Delphi form where you place TApXXXDialog component. It's does not mean that it's the main form of your application of course.
Left, Top, Right, Bottom forms These ferms refer to Delphi forms wich are used in your application as left, top, right and bottom parts of your custom dialog.
Custom form This terms refers to form wich can be used in your dialog in any way. Now this term refers to replacement for shell list view control in open/save dialogs (CustDlgParams.CutomForm property).
Additional dialog forms Refers to all these forms (except Main)

The following picture shows you Main form:

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And this picture illustrates additional dialog forms:

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