The Resource View of the MFC
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Programming applications for Windows can be a walk in the park if you’re able to use the powerful options encapsulated in the Microsoft Foundation Class library properly. You’ve already learned a lot about these tools and now there is one more step ahead of us that you shouldn’t ignore. I invite you into this final part and together we’ll skim through the resource-related questions/options in MFC.
If you are new to the MFC and haven't read the previous four segments, I strongly recommend delaying this article and searching for the previous parts of the series as they contain very important information about MFC. Having a strong grasp of the basics is required to understand the following pages of this final segment. Don't search too far as you should find them here at ASP Free.
I'm sure that by now you've figured out the basics of MFC and the way it works, but you may be wondering about the purpose of the resource view near the class and file view. Well the answer to this question is in this article, so please just read ahead. We'll start with Menu creation and editing followed by the Dialog boxes, but we are also going to cover assigning some Hot-keys to your menu, changing your icons for the application, and customizing your toolbar.
Of course, as you would already expect, my words are going to be accompanied at every step by code snippets and at the end of this article a hyperlink to the created application shall be present for you to play with it.
So find the voice within you that drives you towards programming and read this final part of the introduction to the world of MFC. As our schedule is hectic and we have many things to do, let's start already! Don't be shy or afraid, just "turn" to the next page.
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