Re: How about a resource string cache?

From:

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

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:57:16 -0800

Message-ID:

<FC10BD45-369F-4EB3-AB59-7BCBA5992919@microsoft.com>

I'm not sure why this is better than calling LoadString()? Is it faster?
It certainly isn't less typing... :o) FWIW, I don't think there is much of
a performance hit in loading a string from the resources.

I just use a function I wrote called GRS() which stands for Get Resource
String (but I'm too lazy to type that all the time)

CString GRS(UINT nID)
{
     CString cs;
     cs.LoadString(nID);
     return cs;
}

So I can just insert something like GRS(ID_MYSTRING) where ever I could
normally put a CString.

Tom

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3FE4CD8A-3B89-4E13-91A7-2585B1AF60B8@microsoft.com...

   CString str;
   str.LoadString(IDS_MY_DESIRED_STR);
   printf(str);

can be replaced:

   CString str(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_MY_DESIRED_STR));
   printf( (LPCTSTR) str);

which is further refined:

   printf( (LPCTSTR) CString(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_MY_DESIRED_STR)) );

which is almost as readable as a hard-coded string:

   printf("My desired string");

Finally we get to the point where it is no longer necessary to replace a
1-line hard-coded string with 3 lines just to move the string into a
stringtable; the replacement code is also 1 line! Now that's what modern
programming is all about.

Although Qt has an even better way:

   printf(tr("My desired string"));

The tr() macro replaces the hard-coded string with its localized
equivalent, if it exists in the active translation. It truly doesn't get
any easier than that. In a lot of ways, Qt is the framework MFC would
have been, had MS kept improving its core functionality (and not just
adding controls like ribbons). I'm liking Qt an awful lot compared to
MFC, and the Dev10 preview doesn't promise to change that much,
unfortunately.

-- David