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Comparison of the Single and Multi-Procedure Approaches

Using single procedures, with secondary dialog boxes, windows that can be modified by export view values, and modeless windows, offers greater flexibility in the design of the dialog.

The following list explains other advantages of the single-procedure approach:

• Allows the user to display multiple occurrences of a window, or to switch to another window without quitting the first window
• Furnishes additional action-related information without cluttering the primary window
• Simplifies the design by consolidating list and maintenance functions into one procedure

The following table points out the differences between the two approaches.

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