Re: FruitBasket-MFC

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:50 -0500 (EST)

I would appreciate a minimalist version if you get a chance, Ken.  Is it
possible to do an MFC version in a single file?

FYI -- I get the following error when launching FruitBasket.exe from a
command prompt:

"The system cannot execute the specified program."

Jamal

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Ken
Perry wrote:

> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:09:31 -0800
> From: Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> .zip
> http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.zip
>
> Ken
>
>
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