Is it bad practice to handle the showing of the open file dialog, and other dialogs, from within a c

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I am making a custom textbox control and am thinking about adding keybindings in the constructor that execute commands to open and save files. I am also thinking about handling the find and replace dialog from within my textbox control.

Is there a reason I shouldn't do this?

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