Re: FruitBasket-MFC

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:03:16 -0500 (EST)

MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) is an object oriented abstraction of
the Win32 API for GUI application development.  It requires C++ rather
than plain C.

Jamal
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, inthaneelf wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:31:40 -0800
> From: inthaneelf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: FruitBasket-MFC
>
> FruitBasket-MFCthis is C with MFC right? just to make sure I have things 
> clear, I'm a bit tired due to pain meds right now, and am not as clear 
> thinking as I could wish.  ,
>
> I downloaded both jic, but I have used .zip all along so far, and think I 
> will keep doing so, but I'll keep the .rar  in case someone requests it.
>
> thanks ken,
> inthane
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>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ken Perry
>   To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:09 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
>   .zip
>   http://www.blinksoft.com/~whistler/FruitBasket-MFC.zip
>
>   Ken
>
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