Re: How to work with XML in MFC?
"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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There is a reason, not technical but philosophical: the controls in MFC
are the system controls. And I like it this way.
In VS 2008 SP1 is the first time (from what I know) that MFC included
"controls" that are not system controls, but custom controls.
And I am not sure if I am happy with it...
(has something to do with my general dislike for custom controls)
Well, even system controls have the ability to set their fonts individually
different from the font in the parent window, so I'm not sure that e.g. just
because a CButton is of class hwnd BUTTON that it makes sense to confine it
to the dialog font!
It's also not true that MFC has not included enhanced controls until SP1,
for example CCheckListbox is a derived LISTBOX control that has shipped for
many years.
Honestly, the days where MFC could skate by as being a thin wrapper around
the standard Windows controls has long ago ended. MS doesn't rev their
controls fast enough to build compelling interfaces on just the standard
Windows controls. Even Vista which has some nice controls, we are prevented
from taking advantage of since Vista is not widely adopted and any work we
do in our apps to use those Vista only controls is for naught in the more
widely deployed XP and even before. If MFC offered the control, we could
deploy it even now, instead we do not. Or rather, we use readily available
3rd party MFC controls! :-)
Thanks,
David