Re: Creating some sort of control by MFC. Problems
German Koninin wrote:
Hi there.
I need to implement following:
In my main project I have a tab control which has few tabs. On that tab
there are some windows where different modules of my application are
implemented. Now I need to make some sort of license program where depending
of some conditions users will be able to use different modules. Also I would
like to implement module's window design and logic in separated DLL so I
will be able to modify modules without recompiling main program.
I'm using MFC for my main project. Currently the best solutions which I see
is to create a MFC DLL and make a dialog there. Then some way load that
dialog from main project and create a window in runtime by
CWnd.CreateWindow. There are some pitfalls so far. I need to pass resource
ID which is not accessible from main project.
Another solution is to create an ActiveX control and put it in my main
project. But actually it looks like more complex solution then just solution
number one where I create simple MFC DLL.
Could you please suggest me what should I do? Or just point me to some
reasource on the internet. Unfortunately I didn't find anything by myself.
Thanks!
German Koninin
The main exe will not need access to the resource ID if you provide a
Create method in your DLL. The exe would pass only the pParent, the DLL
Create method would pass pParent and the ID to CWnd::Create. This
should be very simple to do if you build an MFC extension DLL type of
project.
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