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AlexI
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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 16:54 Edited at: 24th Sep 2008 16:56
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Hi,
Does any know how I can get an MS tool bar like file, edit, etc on my program?

I looked at MSDN, downloaded the samples and they didnt work

Anyway can any one help?
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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 17:13
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define, they didn't work

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AlexI
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Posted: 24th Sep 2008 17:51
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The compile button was greyed out so I changed Debug from Itanium to Win32. It allowed be to compile then. But it gave me this error:


Apparently only the paid version of Visual C++ can compile this. That's what I read somewhere.

But I believe there is another way to get a tool bar probably because I have got a ColorDialog and OpenDialog in my program, which I didn't get from the samples.

Anyway it doesn't matter about the samples any more, i just need a tool bar.

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AlexI
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Posted: 25th Sep 2008 16:14
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Any ideas any one
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Posted: 25th Sep 2008 17:03
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Post the link to the MSDN page you're talking about.

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AlexI
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Posted: 26th Sep 2008 11:44
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Here is the samples:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/482ck6x8.aspx

None of them will work, because it uses the MFC classes and Visual Basic Express does not have MFC classes.

However I believe there is other ways to get a toolbar other than using MFC.

Any ideas of how I would do this without MFC?
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I looked over some info about MFC. While I'm extremely jealous of those that get to use it, there is a light-weight alternate: WTL (Windows Template Library). Look up some tutorials on it. Like MFC, it is a C++ OOP wrapper for the Win32 API (because the API is horrible to use; it's very old-school C).

So, try your luck with WTL. I might try it myself.

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Posted: 26th Sep 2008 19:38
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Thanks, will tell you how it goes


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Posted: 28th Sep 2008 21:50 Edited at: 28th Sep 2008 21:52
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Any luck with it? I downloaded it and couldn't get it to work

It needs ATL and Microsoft have been kind enough to not include it:
Quote: "
# Does Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition include MFC and ATL?

No, MFC and ATL are not included with Visual C++ 2008 Express. MFC and ATL will be included in Visual Studio 2008 Standard and above editions.
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Any other librarys that might make a toolbar? Or ways to get WTL to work?
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I can't seem to find a wrapper that's easy to install and free.

I suppose I could write my own some time soon.

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i started writing one... if you want the classes i started, i would be more than happy to give them to someone to finish/rewrite if they'd like.
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Quote: "i started writing one... if you want the classes i started, i would be more than happy to give them to someone to finish/rewrite if they'd like. "


Sure. Post/email them to me. I take a look at them tomorrow.

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Quote: "i started writing one... if you want the classes i started, i would be more than happy to give them to someone to finish/rewrite if they'd like."


How far did you get?

It would be cool Mahoney if you finished it


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