MFC design help for MSVS Binary Editor like program
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Hey everyone, I am a novice when it comes to MFC/Win32 programming. My background is in embedded C type work. I have the need to make a utility to help me analyze binaries. I wanted to ask for suggestions on how to structure a project similar to MS Visual Studio's Binary Editor. I will want at least the same functionality and I will be adding to it. I will want to be able to tag ranges of the binary and save those tags as a session. Also would like to eventually plot the data ranges that have been tagged. Also I would like to ask if anyone has any good tutorial resources for MFC programming. Most of the tutorials I have tried to follow do not seem to be up to date. I am running VC++ 2003 .NET and when I try to follow the tutorials I have found there are missing gaps like for Class wizard or something like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced, Mike
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Hey everyone, I am a novice when it comes to MFC/Win32 programming. My background is in embedded C type work. I have the need to make a utility to help me analyze binaries. I wanted to ask for suggestions on how to structure a project similar to MS Visual Studio's Binary Editor. I will want at least the same functionality and I will be adding to it. I will want to be able to tag ranges of the binary and save those tags as a session. Also would like to eventually plot the data ranges that have been tagged. Also I would like to ask if anyone has any good tutorial resources for MFC programming. Most of the tutorials I have tried to follow do not seem to be up to date. I am running VC++ 2003 .NET and when I try to follow the tutorials I have found there are missing gaps like for Class wizard or something like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced, Mike
mvs_pgrmr wrote:
Most of the tutorials I have tried to follow do not seem to be up to date.
Are you finding them on MSDN? I would suspect (reads: assume :-O )they would have some up to date ones
mvs_pgrmr wrote:
I wanted to ask for suggestions on how to structure a project similar to MS Visual Studio's Binary Editor.
Good luck with that. Creating editors of any type is a large undertaking IMHO. I've been doing MFC dev. since version 1.0 and it would take me a long time to develop what you describe. As a "utility" I wouldn't even consider doing it.
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mvs_pgrmr wrote:
Most of the tutorials I have tried to follow do not seem to be up to date.
Are you finding them on MSDN? I would suspect (reads: assume :-O )they would have some up to date ones
mvs_pgrmr wrote:
I wanted to ask for suggestions on how to structure a project similar to MS Visual Studio's Binary Editor.
Good luck with that. Creating editors of any type is a large undertaking IMHO. I've been doing MFC dev. since version 1.0 and it would take me a long time to develop what you describe. As a "utility" I wouldn't even consider doing it.
led mike, Thanks for your opinion. I appreciate your comment on how much work this would take. Finding out what it would take to make such a tool is actually my main objective. You have confirmed my impression that it would take a lot of man hours. My need for such a tool is always brought to mind but never executed. I think it is going to be one of those things that will always be on the back burner. Respectfully, Mike Santos