how to create a UI like Resource Editor?

Dear Sam,
Thanks for your reply. Do you mean to say that with the help of a dialog bar only the kind of UI can be created.

Anyways I'll look into MSDN for dialog bar as i have nevr worked on that. Can you or anyone send me some information on dialog bar.

Regards,
Nitin

Originally posted by qcnitin
Do you mean to say that with the help of a dialog bar only the kind of UI can be created.I think so but I am guessing.

I might not understand what you are asking, but I think the answer is that you will of course have a button or menu item or whatever that the user uses to choose the various types. So in the handler for each type is where the appropriate window would be created. I am not sure if the windows correspond to separate documents; I assume not, but I also assume that there would be something in the document created for each new window. In other words, in the document, there would either be a new string, a new menu or a new dialog, or whatever.

I am not sure what you are asking. Are you asking how to create a dialog or how to make a window with a dialog in it? Or are you asking how to make it stick?

What you are trying to do is relatively advanced. You will learn a lot doing it.

One problem is that even if you are able to create a blank dialog, you will next need to add controls to it, right? If that is correct, then the solution for showing a blank dialog depends on how you will update it later.

Are you familiar with creating and showing dialogs normally? If not, then it will be difficult to explain how to do that in the advanced manners you need to for this project. Probably you will want to use "Create" to dynamically create the controls that get added to the dialog.

I think when you say "stick to the same window" you mean that you want the dialog to be a child of the window it is in (over).

Look at my Child Dialogs (http://simplesamples.info/MFC/ChildDialogs.php) page. It describes how to create a child dialog for normal use, but there will be differences for your project. However you can use that to understand some important things.

The host for my web site will be moving to a new server, so my web site might be unavailable for about an hour tonight.

Maybe something like this will help you. (a minimal example)

p.s. the trick to make it stick is
1. Set the parent to the view
2. Handle OnNCHitTest

I'm getting a Crash when closing the App. (WinXP)

Assertion in:
BOOL PASCAL CWnd::WalkPreTranslateTree(HWND hWndStop, MSG* pMsg)

When you don't set the parent, it doesnt crash.

any ideas ?

Which statement asserted?

Yah I was a bit sloppy on this.

The problem is not that the WS_CHILD flag needs to be set
and WS_POPUP turned off.

The problem is I was calling DestroyWindow in the destructor
of the view. OOPS

Should of handled

void CLIKERESOURCEEDITORView::OnDestroy()
{
CView::OnDestroy();
if(NULL != StuckDialog_->GetSafeHwnd())
{
StuckDialog_->DestroyWindow();
}


}

Let me know if it goes away if you move the call to DestroyWindow

hmm... It does not assert on my system..

Oh, by the way. I would set the WS_CHILD style is I were to
really do this.

Actually I would not use a dialog at all for that, I would
derive my own class from CWnd.

Just for your info here is GetSafeHwnd()

_AFXWIN_INLINE HWND CWnd::GetSafeHwnd() const
{ return this == NULL ? NULL : m_hWnd; }

from MSDN
CWnd::GetSafeHwnd
HWND GetSafeHwnd( ) const;

Return Value

Returns the window handle for a window. Returns NULL if the CWnd is not attached to a window or if it is used with a NULL CWnd pointer