Loading MFC controls from xml file

[raghuji rao]

i have an xml file and dll file of some other application.how to load the MFC controls style and properties from xml file and calling functionalities of the corresponding controls from dll

[Cedric Moonen]

raghuji.rao wrote:

how to load the MFC controls style and properties from xml file

The only way I'm aware of, is to read the XML file yourself and then create the controls at run-time depending of what you read from the file. To parse the XML file, you can perhaps use TinyXML[^] which is quite powerfull.

raghuji.rao wrote:

and calling functionalities of the corresponding controls from dll

I don't understand what you are trying to achieve. Could you be more specific ?

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Cédric Moonen Software developer
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[raghuji rao]

i have downloaded an user interface application from codejock.com. it has a very good gui. he is importing control properties from an xml file and calling control functionalites from a dll. i want to have in my application. how to do that?

[Cedric Moonen]

Impossible to say without knowing what technologies he is using. Does he uses MFC ? Or is it a special GUI ? I think the easier is to ask directly to the guy who developped this thing (or at least provide a link to what you are talking about).

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Cédric Moonen Software developer
Charting control

[raghuji rao]

he is supplying exe and related dll,xml file. am sure it is mfc dll

[Cedric Moonen]

:| How can we help if you don't provide more information ? We have absolutely no clues at all of how he managed to do what you are looking for (and it's not by saying that he supplied exe, xml and dll that it will help a lot). But, why don't you simply use what he provided ? And also: how do you know that functionalities for the control is added in the dll (or something like that, because I still don't understand what you are looking for with this dll). And, what was the problem with my first answer ? Moreover, do you know what you are talking about ? Because if you just saw something nice somewhere on the net that you want to reproduce but you have no clue about what you are talking about and hope that we will provide you with a complete solution, then you are going in the wrong direction, because we don't have any idea neither (*take a deep breath after a so long sentence* ;P)

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Cédric Moonen Software developer
Charting control

[Viorel]

We can presume that the combination of LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress functions is the thing that you finally will achieve. In this case perhaps you need the list of features available in that DLL, in form of *.h header files. In case of MFC, it may be some specific methods for invoking features from DLL.

[ThatsAlok]

raghuji.rao wrote:

i have an xml file and dll file of some other application.how to load the MFC controls style and properties from xml file and calling functionalities of the corresponding controls from dll

try CMarkUp for Parsing XML, it quite Popular here

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