Actually, could you suggest a good book on MFC? James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

I think I'll also be getting a book on MFC, as I haven't really worked with it either. Thanks again. James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

Well, how irritating. I changed the string, as it said, but according to the article, it wasn't enough. Oh well, thanks for the pointer to the article! James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

Well... it has a string in the string table, IDR_ImageFileMasterTYPE (the name if the application is Image FileMaster), and it contains the string that is listed when you do a File->Open, including a path, a filter, etc. But, in modifying the string so that it contained more than one filter made no difference; it listed the new string in the file->open dialog, but didn't actually show the new file extensions. James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

I, uhm.... dont know? :) I used the wizard to generate an automatic MDI for me, and it set up the parent's menu system and everything. It had a section in the wizard for inputting the file name to open, but I decided to add more to it. The main application class inherits from CWinApp. The wizard automatically created a Message Map that maps its file->open to CWinAPP::OnFileOpen (Man, I feel stupid. I wouldn't think working on something so simple would have been so hard when translating from Borland C++ Builder to VS .Net. I guess C++ Builder's RAD spoiled me :/ ) James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

Hi there. I have created an MDI program, and I need to know, where do I add the filters used when a user does a File->Open? Sorry if this is an inane question, but I'm used to using Borland C++ Builder, and obviously VS .Net does things differently. Thanks! James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

WEll, I have been using Borland C++ Builder most of my life, and it always made GUI design a breeze. But, now I'm using VC++; I've used it before when writing, say, DLLs, so it hasnt been a problem; however, now that I'm designing a GUI, its causing me lots of headaches. For instance, I only now just found that the filetypes that it looks for when doing, say, file->open, is in resource string table. Or rather, thats what it lists for captions at least, not necessarily where its actually using for the filter. So, I went and changed the caption - and, of course, its just the caption, and not the filter. So, I've been digging to see where the wizard that created my project is actually saving the filter for file-opening, as I want to add more filetypes to its initial filter. Meanwhile, I'm also curious, if I wanted to do so, I do I add menus and toolbars to children of the parent window in a MDI project? As I've been a developer using Borland, I've gotten spoiled with GUI Development :) James A Beggs American Quarter Horse Association Manager of Product Development

And how do I identify the window I need from the others I don't with EnumWindows()? James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Ah, ok. I misunderstood - or misread. James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

what about for windows 2K and XP? :) James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

This is something I can do if I wanted to remain a tester; I don't. I want to do development; or, development in test. And for that, I need to prove my programming skills; it wont do much if I have other people's software do it for me! :) James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Well then, what would you suggest? I need to write code to mimic the keystrokes. And no, I don't need to buy it; they are looking for me to prove I can develop software, not that I can make wise choices on buying it. Otherwise, it isn't going to help me for where I want to go and need to be. James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Well, for non-.NET programming needs, you can pretty much use VC++ as you would VC++ 6; for .NET stuff, I wouldn't know where to direct you; perhaps you can pick up a book. James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

I don't understand; you just said you have VS C++ 6.0; that IS visual C++. Do you mean VS C++ for .NET? James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Actually, my boss DOES believe in testing - thats what I'm here for, to test. The problem is that I'm a short term contracter here, and I have been doing short term contracts for 3 years. My boss just told me that one of the ways to go full time is to show my ability to code, and suggested this route. I'd actually like to be either a Dev in Test or a Developer, and I do have a BS in Computer science and some coding skills, but as I said before, I never worked with other people's apps, or wrote apps to work with other apps; all stand alone stuff, and for the last three years all I could land is testing positions. I fear my skills will be degrading. I'm going to have to work harder at self-education to get myself up to speed. :( James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

I didn't create it; and I'm not sure if it does OLE; perhaps the devs here can tell me - if they will take the time out for it. I'm guessing that the Windows Messages would be best way all total (I'm reading up on win32 APIs, FindWindow function, and other stuff. But I would be interested in your Named Pipes example, and any thoughts on which of these is the best approach and why, would be great. James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Hm; I gather it differently. Certainly, I understand what you are saying, in terms of calling the software directly, but also, you can write a program that will send keystrokes and mouse activity to a window thats active, right? James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

Hi there. I'm a professional IT guy working as a Test Engineer. I've done a smidgeon of development, but I'm really junior level in that area, and all I've really done is stand alone application development, so I have a lot of skills I need to work on. What I'm trying to do is learn how to write an application that can call other applications and manipulate them; in other words, open up an application, do the effect of a "File-Open" command in that application, etc. And I have no idea where to begin learning these things. Can anyone shove me in the right direction? :) Thanks! James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Windows CE Platform Builder Test Team

I am a professional, but unfortunately junior, developer, and I'm looking to do something that I thought I knew how to do. Now, I cannot recall how to do it, and I'm feeling... well, terribly ignorant. What is going on is I want to create an array of arrays - in specific, I'm making a pointer of pointers, actually. I want each of the pointers in the "array" to point at an object of the same type. I wanted to set up a for-loop to assign these. In other words, I have something like: TCSpinEdit ** SpinnerArray; SpinnerArray = new TCSpinEdit *[58]; for (int iCtr = 0; iCtr < 58; iCtr++) the name of each of these objects starts out with CSpin followed by a number, from 1 to 58; so I need to point to CSpin1, then CSpin2, etc. Therefore, I need to generate a string, or whathave you, to designate each CSpin variable to each of the pointes in the array. And I realized I was unsure how to go about this. I started originally by using the string class; assign it as: string = "Cspin" + iCtr; But I realized I wasn't sure how to use the string to refer to a variable NAME. Any suggestions? Thanks! James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team

er, sorry. :) although it wasnt really for Visual C++; I'm using it in Borland C++ builder, but ok. James A Beggs Microsoft MSN Mobile Component Test Team