Re: Create multiple dialogs at runtime

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:08:00 -0700

Message-ID:

<14EEF05C-455B-4B67-AE8F-653F2B309C79@microsoft.com>

Are the dialogs all the same, perhaps just with different data? If so, you
could have one template and just create multiple dialogs from it. If they
are slightly different you could still use the same template and just show
or hide controls that are needed at runtime.

The ID is just used to find the template, you could still have multiple
dialog objects/windows all created from the same, or a finite number, of
templates. And, you'll find it much easier to manage the dialog
creation/modification using the resource editor.

Tom

<kimtherkelsen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:237488ed-5d72-4814-b4c3-c8fb8f69ef24@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

Hi,
I want to make it possible for the user to create an unlimited
(perhaps up to ten in practice :-) ) number of dialog boxes/windows at
runtime depending on what the user selects in the main gui. It is
meant to be a lot of dialog modules each containing a specific set of
adjustable parameters that affects the processing in the main gui. The
problem is I don't know how many dialog are going to be created at
compile time.
Because of the ways I want to use the code it is very important for me
that I do not just hardcode ten different resource ids in the resource
file. I want to create the dialog ids, set their positions, styles,
sizes and fill controls into them at runtime.

I have made this class:

class AM3DParamInterfaceWindow : public CDialog

and in the constructor I try to create the dialog:

this->Create(dialogId, pParent); //CWnd* pParent is a pointer to the
parent window

The problem is that "dialogId" apparently has to exist in the ".rc"
file otherwise I get an error saying that the resource can not be
found. I also think the ids of the dialogs have to be different in
order not to mix up things.

I hope you understand what I want to accomplish otherwise I will try
to explain it better.

/Kim