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  1. Aug 2nd, 2002, 09:50 PM #1
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    Angry api loses to mfc?

    Darn it, now I am interested in MFC.

    But the syntax and all those .h and .cpp files just gives me a headache, can anyone kindly briefly explain it to me the structure and other crap please?

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    MFC sucks.
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    Concisely put there

    Sure, for getting a program up and running, MFC is pretty good. Unfortunately, the code inside it is verging on the horrific side, plus it's fairly non-portable which is one of my projects for the future...

    The VC++ documentation tells you about all the MFC stuff (this is one of the main stumbling blocks - it autogenerates a load of bumf which is almost impossible to read).
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    Re: api loses to mfc?

    Originally posted by prog_tom
    Darn it, now I am interested in MFC.

    But the syntax and all those .h and .cpp files just gives me a headache, can anyone kindly briefly explain it to me the structure and other crap please?
    If you are interested, I suggest you learn C++ (just the basics), then learn to make a window with c++ (no mfc), then make an MFC project.
    Or you could just stop after step 2

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    If you use dialogbox functions in regular c++ .. Its almost as ez as MFC. But the one thing I found nice about MFC.. Was how it handled ActiveX Controls (ocx). It auto-generated classes for you to use the ocx component.

    .... I still dont know how to use OCXs in C++, but I've never needed to use OCXs in C++
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    but why are all the books talking about MFC? Even parksie and most other members always use MFC to answer our humble questions.

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  8. Aug 3rd, 2002, 07:19 PM #7
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    I dont think I have EVER seen parksie answer a question not specifically about MFC with MFC. You might be confusing MFC with the STL, the Standard Template Library. The two are completly different and separate.

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    Originally posted by Zaei
    I dont think I have EVER seen parksie answer a question not specifically about MFC with MFC. You might be confusing MFC with the STL, the Standard Template Library. The two are completly different and separate.

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    And even if I can easily tell that they're using MFC, if they don't say it then I use STL or API just to punish them
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