Re: I need to LoadString() programmatically based on ID not Value
I often wish MFC had the option to use RESX files like .NET has. They are
much easier to work with for strings and simple resources.
The option of having separate files (XML or whatever) is possible, but it
moves outside of the MFC paradigm and just becomes another thing not managed
by Visual Studio. You can have multiple string tables or even external .RC
files that are included based on some set of defines so you may want to
continue down that path first.
Tom
"Cadwell" <Cadwell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I didn't want to do that for code readability reasons. I think I am either
going to have provide a translation table or bypass the resource file
altogether and use a .xml file. I think our translation tool (LingoBit)
will
work on a xml file as well as a resource.
"David Lowndes" wrote:
So the clients will be calling LoadLibrary, CString::LoadString?
Yes
How will the
IDS_STRING_NAME be resolved?
If you want to convert a text string into a number you'd have to
provide your own conversion table - why not just use the ID number,
it'll be faster!
Dave
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