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- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: Re: Resource Help
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.222932.23800@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <BzEzJ2.4FA@newsserver.technet.sg>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:29:32 GMT
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- In article <BzEzJ2.4FA@newsserver.technet.sg> scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Kenneth Soh) writes:
- >Hi !
- >
- >This is my first attempt to use a resource from a windows program.
- >I've created a dialog window using the Microsoft Windows' Dialog
- >Editor and I intend to use it in my program as a modeless dialog.
- >
- >I am using the Microsoft MFC classes and I have inherited from
- >the CDialog a customised class of my own. The constructor of this
- >class then does a call to Create( <resource-dialog-name>, <parent
- >window> ). I then call SendMessage(WM_INITDIALOG) to force my
- >OnInitDiag() to execute.
- >
- >I cannot manage to get the dialog window out and hence upon tracing
- >I realise that my Create() actually returns zero. The resource
- >cannot be loaded. Can someone advise ??
-
- Did you compile the resource script and bind it into your
- .exe? I don't know how MS does this, but in Borland, just
- put the .rc script file in the project and the make will
- invoke the resource compiler.
- --
- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- Airborne Geophysics
- Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
-