Re: killing dialogs softly
<runcyclexcski@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I want to clean up my resource main window dialog (MFC .net) from
unused dialog buttons (I have many - this is science project with many
buttons for data analysis etc). Simply hitting "delete" for a button/
cstatic does not work since the record for it has remained in the
resource.h, I assume.
Is there a way to do it quickly and cleanly, as opposed to going back
to the resource file and looking up a control's name manually? I've
stupidly deleted many of buttons and I get an assertion error when
starting up the app... from the assertion error it is not clear which
particular button it's missing.
There is not a way to do it quickly and cleanly. There are three parts you
have to delete to get rid of a control.
1. The control. (Delete image on dialog template.)
2. The code. (Delete all related functions and variables.)
3. The resource ID.
For the third, you can right click on the .rc file in resource view and
select
ID = resource symbols
This gives you a list of them that is a little (only a little) more
convenient that directly editing the resource.h file.
And by the way, it is a good idea to do a Rebuild All after changing
resource.h. Some of those symbols are very sticky.
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