Dialog edit mode lets you visually modify a selected dialog and its controls. You can resize, redesign, and reposition dialogs or simply change their font properties to suit your wishes.
However, Windows® imposes restrictions on changes that can be made. These limitations are described in Important Notes.

Size and position changes to dialog boxes and child controls are automatically reflected in the resource script.
For more information see: DIALOG Resource.

1. Select the dialog resource item to be changed in the Resource Tree view.
2. Open the dialog resource using the "Resource Editor" button or the popup menu displayed by right-clicking the Resource Tree. Or simply double-click the resource item directly.
3. Select a control by clicking it in the displayed dialog. The selected control will show resizing handles.
4. A dialog box can be modified primarily by editing the item lable - e.g. the caption, as well as changing the size or position of a control. This can be accomplished using the mouse as well as entering the new properties directly into the corresponding edit fields.
5. Press OK to close the Resource Editor and select 'File' -> 'Save File As ...' to save the altered file to disk. If warned that the image size has changed, click "Yes" to update the file size.

Control IDs can not be edited. These values are hard coded into the target file. Changing them is likely to cause the modified program to crash.

Show/Hide a dialog form.

Change font properties of a dialog form (when selecting a dialog node).

Rollback. There are two rollback buttons: Total rollback restores all changes, Local rollback restores only changes made to a selected control.
Any change you make can be restored prior to quitting the editor using the OK button. To abort your changes quit the editor using the Cancel button.

STYLE PARAMETERS

This menu allows for changing the Style and ExStyle parameters of a selected control:

You can set/reset the extended style parameters for a dialog box and its control items (e.g. "right-to-left" reading order for Hebrew/Arabic script as well as "right-aligned text").
For more information regarding the various extended styles, see CONTROL CLASSES AND STYLES.