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Re: Resource Help

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From: John Grant
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:29
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In article <BzEzJ2.4FA@newsserver.technet.sg> scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Kenneth Soh) writes:
>Hi !
>
>This is my first attempt to use a resource from a windows program.
>I've created a dialog window using the Microsoft Windows' Dialog
>Editor and I intend to use it in my program as a modeless dialog.
>
>I am using the Microsoft MFC classes and I have inherited from
>the CDialog a customised class of my own. The constructor of this
>class then does a call to Create( <resource-dialog-name>, <parent
>window> ). I then call SendMessage(WM_INITDIALOG) to force my
>OnInitDiag() to execute.
>
>I cannot manage to get the dialog window out and hence upon tracing
>I realise that my Create() actually returns zero. The resource
>cannot be loaded. Can someone advise ??

	Did you compile the resource script and bind it into your
	.exe?  I don't know how MS does this, but in Borland, just
	put the .rc script file in the project and the make will
	invoke the resource compiler.
-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
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