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Windows 11, Visual Studio 2022
I am having trouble finding a web page that provides some basic comparisons of the different template types. The current need is a simple GUI for some number crunching. There will be no graphics or pictures. There will be many push buttons and fields for editing and displaying numbers.
I am unsure of the amount of detail to provide, the list of project templates on the left side of the project create dialog is:
Console App
MFC App
Windows Desktop Application
There is a list on the right side of the creation dialog. Are they completely independent of the list on the left? Why was each one created?
I tried MFC App, but, could not find a method to create a new GUI and when the default GUI editor was closed could not find a way to open it again. Any help on this concept?
I did get to here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/create-new-project?view=vs-2022#select-a-template-type
From there I was unable to detect (or maybe recognize) any descriptions of the various project types and why each might be selected. There must have been a reason to create each of the project variations. It would really be nice to find a description of each of the templates and why it was created.
Thank you for your time.
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I'm not sure from what you've mentioned precisely what problem you have with re-editing the GUI with your MFC application. The form (or dialog in MFC/Win32 terminology) can be found in your project in the Resource View (View, Other Windows, Resource View) under Dialog. Depending on whether your application would benefit from the MFC Doc/View architecture, you would probably need to create either a simple dialog based application, or a doc/view one using a CFormView. Have a look for some YT videos on the subject and do some more reading to gain some background information.
As for the LHS/RHS of the new project dialog, the LHS is what it says, the recently used ones.
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Does the answer solve your problem? For your reference:
Creating a Forms-Based MFC Application
I replied to RLWA32's post, refreshed, waited a bit and refreshed again. Cannot see it. So post here.
RLWA32, thank you for your post. I have been making some progress, but there are many questions for which the dialogs should provide answers. Begin with the creation of an MFC. In dialog Application Type Options, select Application type option “Dialog based” The field “Dialog based options” has three options: <none>, Use HTML dialog, and No enhanced MFC controls.
Dialog options <none> seems to make no sense at all.
HTML is a web page markup language, but, I suppose it can be used to dialogs. But I would rather have the option to drag and drop controls onto a dialog rather than use HTML commands. Hmm, it is possible, even probably that I completely misunderstand this option.
The third also makes little sense to me. What enhanced controls are being omitted?
Suggestion: Provide a right click option to get an explanation of the purpose of options such as these. I think this would be a huge improvement in navigating options within Visual Studio itself. Yes, it would take significan effort, but in my opinion would be a huge improvement.
And yes, I have done some searches for what these options mean and have had no success.
The current need is a simple GUI for some number crunching. There will be no graphics or pictures. There will be many push buttons and fields for editing and displaying numbers.
For this, instead of C++, I rather use WinForms/C# :
It is fast to drag/drop Buttons and other controls on the Form and double-click on Buttons to generate Click event and add code
It is fast to drag/drop Buttons and other controls on the Form and double-click on Buttons to generate Click event and add code
Same for an MFC Dialog-based application if the language preference is C++.
Is there any update?
The current need is a simple GUI for some number crunching. There will be no graphics or pictures. There will be many push buttons and fields for editing and displaying numbers.
I agree with @David Lowndes comment if you want to create an application using MFC. The type of MFC application to be created is selected from the Application Type choices as shown below --
For your use case you would select "Dialog based" and continue from there, or for an MFC application using CFormView probably select "Single Document" and continue with the wizard until you reach the choices for "Generated Classes". As shown below, pick "View" from the Class dropdown and "CFormView" from the base class dropdown --
RLWA32, thank you for your post. I have been making some progress, but there are many questions for which the dialogs should provide answers. Begin with the creation of an MFC. In dialog Application Type Options, select Application type option “Dialog based” The field “Dialog based options” has three options: <none>, Use HTML dialog, and No enhanced MFC controls.
Dialog options <none> seems to make no sense at all.
HTML is a web page markup language, but, I suppose it can be used to dialogs. But I would rather have the option to drag and drop controls onto a dialog rather than use HTML commands. Hmm, it is possible, even probably that I completely misunderstand this option.
The third also makes little sense to me. What enhanced controls are being omitted?
Suggestion: Provide a right click option to get an explanation of the purpose of options such as these. I think this would be a huge improvement in navigating options within Visual Studio itself. Yes, it would take significan effort, but in my opinion would be a huge improvement.
And yes, I have done some searches for what these options mean and have had no success.
Regarding RLWA32, in the last image my generated classes does not have the option View, and Base class does not have CFormView.
But those don't seem to be important right now, I have enough to create the project. On to the next question
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Hi,
class CMFCApplicationDlg : public CDialogEx
class CDialogEx : public CDialog
The CDialogEx class specifies the background color and background image of a dialog box.
class CMFCApplication3Dlg : public CDHtmlDialog CMFCApplicationDlg : public CDialog
From blog
With _AFX_NO_MFC_CONTROLS_IN_DIALOGS #defined, they are built into a new small static MFC library
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Minxin Yu
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In addition to the effect on static libraries use of certain MFC controls in a dialog can cause a runtime failure even when static libraries are not used. For example, inserting an MFC Shell Tree control into a dialog is problematic because the executable will not have initialized a CShellManager object.
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