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My plans for tomorrow include poking around with the codebase for an old MFC app that I'll be doing some updates to later. It's been over a decade since I last toyed with MFC though; and I never used it heavily then. As a result I'm not really sure what the workflow/execution path for MFC dialogs is, or how all of the "magic" works anymore. A good refresher tutorial would be helpful if anyone knows of one.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: As a result I'm not really sure what the workflow/execution path for MFC dialogs is
It's comparable to this one: clicky[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Not sure if it's just my messed up work connection, but what I'm seeing appears to be missing either images or code snippet blocks. ex
Quote: General dialog box workflow
Defines a dialog class, you can use the dialog class to declare a dialog object, that is, a dialog box is displayed on the screen.
Really looks like it should have a code sample between the two paragraphs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Works for me, Dan. See this[^] screenshot.
/ravi
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That's more or less what I saw, other than not scrolling down to the bottom to see the code listing. The way the chunk of text (and a few others below it) read, I was expecting to see code snippets interspersed between them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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that looks like it could be simplified to
Steal Rodgers Whisky -> Hide -> Get Drunk. 
Which pleasurable as it may be, (until Rodger found me anyway) isn't really going to do much to help me out. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No, sorry it won't... 
I guess MFC isn't that bad - but for me it's tightly tied into my BIG ball of mud, so this picture was my first association 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Dan Neely wrote: or how all of the "magic" works anymore.
Crazy declarative syntax that wires up low level Window's messages to C++ class functions that it binds to. Can't remember how, though I even wrote one of those things 30 years ago when I discovered that Borland had a cool way of doing it but Microsoft hadn't caught on yet.
Marc
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BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyDlg, CDialog)
ON_WM_CLOSE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
Time to put on some CCR and Grateful Dead on the record player and share stories of the good old days. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Time to put on some CCR and Grateful Dead on the record player and share stories of the good old days.
Ah, vinyl and amplifiers that actually had tubes. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Crazy declarative syntax that wires up low level Window's messages to C++ class functions that it binds to. Can't remember how,
That's about the extent of my recollection too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This[^] was what I read a really long time ago.
(Don't want to write that) there was a PDF version of this book online.
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That's about the right era, if perhaps a single generation early; the people who brought it to us were running it on an NT4(!) box. Was it any good...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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MFC is still mostly the same.
If I remember correctly, the resource wizard was removed in VS2003 and VS2005 (?), but was re-added later on.
The latest version (implementation) is a little bit more C++ compliant; but there is still a lot of gunk in there.
The new controls (if you have VS2008 or a newer versions) are nice and offer a number of more modern controls (the MFC Feature Pack)
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'll keep that in mind if we end up doing a major UI update. Multiple small windows floating around the main dialog is far from my favorite UI paradigm. 
What we're going to do now that my PM (who used to be an MFC dev back in the day) got it building in VS2010 and fixed all of the compiler warnings is still rather up in the air.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But if you're going to use the MFC Feature Pack you have to be cautious about the fact that Microsoft simply bought it from an outside vendor and added it to the feature set with most of its rough edges still intact. See for example, this[^] exploration of the CMFCLinkCtrl class intended for use with hyperlinks. Among other things it included hard-coded fonts.
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Around the platform here in the arabian gulf the sea life is just amazing compared to the that of the North Sea.
Lots of different types of fish, from big long things that wander about, to the shorter thin arrow like things that jump out of the water on mass when the sharks or dolphins come in about.
Then there are long fat headed things with shiny blue fins.....Coming into Whale Shark season in the area as well which could be interesting.
As you can see from above I'm no fish name expert! 
I only know the name of the Whale Sharks because there is a new procedure in place for the season limiting vessel speeds etc.)
Oh, and hello all by the way!
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Quote: that jump out of the water on mass when the sharks or dolphins come in about
You have Roman Catholic fish? How have they resisted Islam all this time?
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Member 9082365 wrote: How have they resisted Islam all this time?
But it's obvious, hiding underwater! 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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Same goes for fish[^]
Long live AoE 2
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Right, like you'd argue with a shark wearing a bishop's mitre!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This book is brilliant for fish in Middle Eastern waters[^] - I know you're not in the Red Sea, but the fishies will be just about the same:
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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DaveAuld wrote: As you can see from above I'm no fish name expert! 
You know more about fish species than me, the only ones I know are Cod, Haddock and Rock, all with chips. 
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I thought David Attenborough had come on board
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