Creating a toolbar in a console application

[FloatingMarc]

Hello, I made a dll that has a bunch of functions called from a console application. One of them creates a CFrameWnd window. Inside the function that creates my CFrameWnd, I can create a CToolBar object. However I now want the user of the dll (the creator of the console application) to be able to attach a customized CToolBar object to that window (instead of the default CToolBar object that I created during window creation inside the dll). So I thought I simply create the customized CToolBar object in the client application (console application) in the same way I did in the dll function. That however does not seem to work: in release mode the toolbar appears, but doesn't have any bitmap, in debug mode, I get debug assertion errors because of unexisting resource or instance handles. Following few lines in my console application are impossible to execute without assertion errors in debug mode: CToolBar* toolBar=new CToolBar(); toolBar->CreateEx((CFrameWnd*)dllFunctionGetFrameWnd(),TBSTYLE_FLAT,WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC|CBRS_TOP|WS_CLIPCHILDREN|WS_CLIPSIBLINGS); toolBar->LoadToolBar(IDR_TOOLBAR1); toolBar->SetWindowText("Toolbar"); toolBar->EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_TOP); Anyone knows a workaround? Or can anyone propose an alternative solution to my problem?

[Mark Salsbery]

FloatingMarc wrote:

a bunch of functions called from a console application. One of them creates a CFrameWnd window

You need to look at the assertions and the code where they occur. You should see what's going wrong. You need to make sure you're making the right kind of DLL if you're using MFC in a DLL. All the info you need to do this can be found here: Kinds ofDLLs[^] Mark

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