Re: FruitBasket-MFC

  • From: "jaffar" <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:12:54 +0800

Hi Jamal. As far as I understand it, MFC itself is a microsoft created library-cum-wrapper for Win32 programming. As far As I am Concerned, I just create MFC applications without the use of the readily available App Wizards with Visual Studio. I just start from scratch from and empty project and hand code the app myself which i find to be more productive. Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> 

To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: RE: FruitBasket-MFC



I'm looking forward to studying your code, Ken.  I have no experience with
the dialog editor myself, and wonder whether it would be possible to
develop with MFC without it, by using a version of CreateDialogIndirect
(or equivalent for regular application windows), whereby control
attributes are specified via memory structures at runtime.  Are there
wrappers to help develop in this way?

Jamal
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Ken Perry wrote:


Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:36:42 -0800
From: Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: FruitBasket-MFC
Oh yeah same for Jaws and I am betting most screen readers. Like I said I 
was able to drop the controls but I had to go in and edit their locations
because the dialog can not be tabbed through like the Form editor with Jaws. 
I mean when you read tutorials on MFC they say just select the button and
hit enter and it will give you a list of properties or stuff like that.
Well In my case the add button and delete button and edit box were all
visible but the list box was not on the screen. I maximized the dialog with Alt-space but that didn't seem to help. I finally just went to the resource file and edited it with the source code editor which means you have to sit 
down and figure out where each control should go.  I am not complaining
because you can do it and it gives you full control over the dialog .  It
could be worse as we all know because visual c++ 6 and jaws you couldn't
even select the controls and drop them on the dialog. At least now you can 
drop them and arrange them later.

Ken

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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jaffar
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:30 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FruitBasket-MFC


Hi Ken.  Would agree with you there.  The resource editor is not really
accessible, although with window eyes, one could use the num pad to read
some info on the screen.  I wish it were more accessible though.  Cheers!

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken  <mailto:whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Perry
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: FruitBasket-MFC
You ask for it you got it. Here it is the one the only FruitBasket in MFC. The hardest part of writing this was using the resource editor. It was like being back in Visual studio 6. Why they didn't just make the current dialog editor work for the old resources I don't know. I doubt they will fix this in 2008 but we can all pray. Jamal have you tried the MFC resource editor 
and do you think it could be made to be accessible like the forms editor?
Anyway even with the problems I was able to make the FruitBasket program in little to no time so here it is. Note most of the guts of the program is in 
FruitBasketDlg.cpp and FruitBasketDlg.h  I am going to try to make a
minimalist version of this but the trouble I had with a single source
version of this was the command line options.  Microsoft has not made it
easy to just compile an MFC application.  Further more a single cpp file
would need all the controls done dynamically rather than in a resource file. While that would get around the problems I had with the resource editor, I 
find fighting with the resource files easier than writing all the code to
create the controls dynamically.  This doesn't mean I won't make a
minimalist version of the MFC FruitBasket it just means it is not done yet. 
I will most likely make it when I re make the win32 version I lost.

OK here is the link to the two archives of the MFC version.  I made two
because some people on this list like .rar and some like .zip. Inthane use which ever you want to on the page it is the same file. The executable is 
under the release directory.

.rar:
 <http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.rar>
http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.rar
.zip
 <http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.zip>
http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.zip

Ken



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