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Creating Dialog Based Application

  1. In Visual C++, select New from File menu.

  2. You will see "New" dialog. I section Projects select OWL AppExpert for VC. Enter project name, location and press Ok

  3. Will appear first Dialog of OWL AppExpert - Selection Module Type: Windows GUI Application and Press Next button.

  4. In Dialog you have to select Windows model for our application, we creating Dialog based application so choise is "Dialog Client". Additional options: Document/View, For simple application you don't need Doc/View model. It's your desizion to use or not to use Document/View model, and it's very depends on application you developing. Press Next to go to next Step.

  5. Next Dialog offer to you various luxury options. Some of them not applicable for Dialog Based application and even you select them, nothing happens. Options "Mail" currently applicable only for Document/View application. Printing not applicable for Dialog ether. Press next button.

  6. Administrative options: this strings will be inserted in to header of *.h and *.cpp files, you will able change them later in ClassExpert. Press Next.

  7. In this dialog you can change Titles for your application. Background color not applicable for Dialog. Main Windows styles you can change, but nature Dialog based aplication that dialog inserted in FrameWindow, and this styles  not affect dialog styles but main window. I think default settings safer.

  8. In next Dialog you can change name of Dialog class and name of Dialog resource Id. This is a last page, now press Finish button

  9. On "New Project Information" dialog, press Enter.

  10. . Press enter on "Important notes" Dialog.

  11. .Now you have to reload VC project. This is due to some settings, OWL AppExpert doing directly in VC project file, limitation VC interface not allows do this in other way. If you will save VC project this setting will be overridden and lost. So press Alt-F-K (close project)  and Alt-F-R-1 (Open last closed project).

  12. .Its All :)

Revised: December 04, 1999.


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