Re: Associate Dialog Resource With Class

From:
"crea" <no@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:43:25 -0000
Message-ID:
<PuDip.80146$BQ7.51808@newsfe22.ams2>
none wrote:

Usually, I create a dialog resource, then right-click and "Add Class"
to create the associated CDialog-based class. This time, I created
the class first. It isn't derived directly from CDialog; there are a
few other subclass layers in between.

So, how do I tell the resource editor to "recognize" that the dialog
resource goes with the dialog class that I wrote manually? The only
reason it matters is that I'd like to get the standard functionality
in the resource editor, for example, right-clicking a button and
doing "Add Event Handler..." These menu items are currently disabled
because I never did the "Add Class" step.


I did this one, and it seemed to work (but please check yourself everything)
for dialog class:

Lets say that CA is the parent class derived from CDialog and CB derived
fron CA:

class CA : public CDialog

class CB : public CA

First comment out
enum { IDD = IDD_DIALOG1 };
from CA.
Also delete constructor
CA(CWnd* pParent = NULL);

(Possibly add a constructor CA( UINT nIDTemplate, CWnd* pParentWnd = NULL );
if you need it, and call CDialog version from there so that you can use
this also in CB.)

Then just set in CB
enum { IDD = IDD_DIALOG2 };

to refer to the dialog you want to use with resource.

Thats it. Seemed to work with my VC6, but I did not check everything...

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