Re: Merge Dialogs

From:

"AliR $VC++ MVP$" <AliR@online.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:48:23 -0600

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I have dealt with this problem differently over the years.

One possible solution would be to put the none common controls on a separate
dialog (child dialog), and embed the child dialog as a control onto the
dialog with the common controls at runtime. The only restriction is that
the controls that will change from dialog to dialog will have to fit within
the same rectangle.

The other approach that I have taken is to put all the controls common or
not on every dialog, but put all the code concerning the controls that are
common (DDX_Control and all) in a base class, that way although the controls
in the resource are duplicated, at least the code is not.

AliR.

"none" <none@none.none> wrote in message
news:Xns9B9F7FDE3AB1Fnonenonenone@69.16.186.8...

Hi all,

I had a strange idea and am wondering if it's possible. I have an
application with tons of MFC dialogs. They are all loaded from a resource
script in the "standard" MFC way. All of these dialogs share some common
fields. What I was thinking about is separating those common fields into
a
separate dialog.

But then, at run-time, I would want to merge the dialogs back together.
This would just make development easier. Several people are creating
these
dialogs, and if they could just create the non-common stuff and have it
automatically merge with the common stuff, it would save a lot of time.
The main drawback to duplicating the common fields in each dialog is that
when we want to change something in the common part, we have to update it
in many places.

As far as how to merge the dialogs graphically, something very simple
would
be fine. For example, maybe I could just take the dialog containing the
common stuff and resize the window vertically to make room for the non-
common stuff at the bottom.

Thanks.