Re: Wizard #if, #define on VC++ 6.0 vs. Visual Studio

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:12:16 -0800
Message-ID:
<9018F844-E4EC-4DED-911D-D29721EA8301@microsoft.com>
No problem Alex. It had to be something like that sine you got the error
consistently.

Tom

"Alexh" <alexh1@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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On Feb 5, 7:43 am, "Tom Serface" <tom.nos...@camaswood.com> wrote:

To add to what David replied...

If it is saying that IDD_XXXXXXX is undeclared it may just not be in the
resource.h file and you may want to check there. Could you post some more
of the code that was created? Someone here may see something you missed
and
perhaps this is not the real problem.

Tom

"Alexh" <ale...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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Hi,

I recently switched to VS 5.0 from VC++ 6.0. I have been modifying
exsiting code under VS 5.0 without many problems. Today was the first
time I added a new class using Project->Add Class-> MFC Class.

I made a simple class in VS 5.0 that references another existing class
in my project. Of course this requires a statement -

include "xxxxx.h".

This include statement creates some strange errors on compile, i.e.

error C2065: 'IDD_XXXXXXX' : undeclared identifier

This IDD_XXXXXX dialog identifier is not new - there are no compile
errors as soon as I remove the include statement (and code which
references other class of course).

All of the VC++ 6.0 generated classes have a compile directive, i.e. -

#if !
defined(AFX_XXXXXXX_H__81391DF0_BA75_45D0_8A34_169E17A31A34__INCLUDED_)
#define AFX_XXXXXXX_H__81391DF0_BA75_45D0_8A34_169E17A31A34__INCLUDED_

and if my memory serves me the error is somehow related to this.
This directive is explained in one of my books but I can't find the
page.

Is there a reason why VS 5.0 does not insert this directive?
is this possibly related to my problem and if so what is the solution?

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Sorry guys, I'm using Visual Studio 2005.
As a test I decided to just add a class from scracth.

I created a new class, CIncludeError, using the wizard and added the
same offending include statement -

#include "MyModule.h" to IncludeError.h.

However, I noticed that this time the .cpp file has an #include
"MytopLevel.h" which is the top level project def file.

I found if I comment out #include "MyTopLevel.h" the same error
returns.

So i must have accidentally deleted the #include "MyTopLevel.h" from
the original class that started the issue.

Thanks for the help. I need to remember to make a test like this to
narrow the problem (and providing more code here wouldn't hurt
either!).

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