Re: MFC Extension DLL query

From:
Ajay <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<95d6b82f-a7a3-42df-847e-f8a02c4c810d@c14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 3, 12:18 pm, shubhishubhi
<shubhishu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have made an extension DLL and have exported a wrapper class from it,
which looks like:

class AFX_EXT_CLASS CDialogDWrapper
{

public:
        CDialogDWrapper(void);
        ~CDialogDWrapper(void);
        void ShowDialog();
        void HideDialog();

};

The ShowDialog function is used to create the dialog. However, I want to =

be

able to hide the dialog using the HideDialog(). What could be the best wa=

y of

doing this?

I am refraining from taking dialog object as a member in this class becau=

se

it would need me to include the Dialog header file in the CDialogWrapper
class (which inturn includes many other files.)Please suggest.


I dont see the problem here. Make it a class derived from CDialog and
expose the header file. Why would you not do that. This is an
extension DLL and not a Regular DLL where you may have some reasoning
but in this case, it makes no sense to not expose the class.

Let the client have access to the dialog and then call ShowWindow to
show/hide the dialog.

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Ajay

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