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[eee1984]

Hi Friends..

I have learned C# before.. and I developed ...But I have to learn MFC, pocket pc for GPS receiver..But I dont understand something for example I use wizard single documet  and when I say finish there ara many files Can you say me this files for what application or purpose ...

thanks a lot

[Jenna Hall]

Hi and welcome. First, you should watch our intro tutorials to MFC:

Lesson 2: The Document/View Architecture
Lesson 3: Application & FrameWnd Classes

After that, you should have an understanding of the idea of MFC's structure and what the following files are and why they're the most important:

Lesson1View.cpp: View class
Lesson1Doc.cpp: Document class
Lesson1.cpp: Application class
MainFrm.cpp: FrameWnd class

And we'll have more MFC tutorials coming, including menu items and resource editing.

Hope this helps!
Jenna

[eee1984]

Hi Jenna

Thanks a lot kindly replies.. I watched 3 lessons and I think very useful ...
Is there any MFC videos for example  videos includes example..?  : 

[Jenna Hall]

If you're looking for example code, I have a download of Lesson 1: http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/mfc/Mfc2008C++Lesson1.zip.

Also, I will be making more videos using the MFC project code soon, so stay tuned.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Ciao,
Jenna

[eee1984]

Thanks Jenna..

I have one question    may you explain messages ?? For example why use messages and what kind of relation between events.

Sincerely

[Jenna Hall]

If you use MFC, the architecture takes care of routing your events as long as you use what are called Message Maps. You have to tell MFC what function to call when a certain event occurs, and the rest is done by MFC.

For instance, you map a function to an event like File --> Open through the Message Map. Then, when a user of your application triggers the File --> Open event by opening the File menu and choosing Open, the MFC architecture will call the function that you specified in the Map. Of course, the code inside your function can do what's required at that point and has nothing to do with messages anymore.

Here is the Message Map from the Application class (e.g., Lesson1.cpp) of our basic MFC program:

Code:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CLesson1App, CWinApp)
ON_COMMAND(ID_APP_ABOUT, &CLesson1App::OnAppAbout)
// Standard file based document commands
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_NEW, &CWinApp::OnFileNew)
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, &CWinApp::OnFileOpen)
// Standard print setup command
ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT_SETUP, &CWinApp::OnFilePrintSetup)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

You'll see that the File --> Open event is linked to the CWinApp function OnFileOpen() here:

Code:

ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_OPEN, &CWinApp::OnFileOpen)

You can map an event to any function you like in the Message Map.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions.
Jenna