Hi,


I'm an amateur programmer with a background in Visual Basic and Turbo Pascal as my only credentials.  Not only that, but I'm kind of rusty.

BTW, I am just delighted to find someone who had developed a reasonably priced C++ system w/ IDDE for a reasonable price.

Now for my question.  I just went through familiarizing myself with the IDDE to the point of doing the tutorial and being able to set up a W32 project, resource file, and setting up the Class Express Control IDs, Messages and Variables.  I don't know any C/C++ at all really, like I learned everything I did in the past with other languages, I like to just start and kind of absorb it as I go.  But I'm starting to spend too much time on figuring out how to get a basic framework going with complete basic open and save functionality.  The issue is figuring out what the source is for the relevant commands.

At this point, I have a command that I have identified from the SDK, IPersistFile::Save, which appears may be the solution to the save function at least (someone pls correct me if I'm on the wrong track there).  But basically, I am writing a small program that has one picture window and one text window and I want to be able to scroll through my Tarot cards and enter in my own text for each card.

If anyone would like to take the time to help me get over this learning curve and speed things up a little, I'd be very grateful.  More info available on request.  It might help out other newbies as well.

Greer

Greer

If you post up your project, we can all take a look. Not promising - as most people on the group are pretty busy chaps - but you'll doubtless get some feedback

Matthew

"StaveRunner" <greertr@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:aqh0ah$1ntb$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm an amateur programmer with a background in Visual Basic and Turbo
Pascal
> as my only credentials.  Not only that, but I'm kind of rusty.
>
> BTW, I am just delighted to find someone who had developed a reasonably priced C++ system w/ IDDE for a reasonable price.
>
> Now for my question.  I just went through familiarizing myself with the
IDDE
> to the point of doing the tutorial and being able to set up a W32 project, resource file, and setting up the Class Express Control IDs, Messages and Variables.  I don't know any C/C++ at all really, like I learned
everything
> I did in the past with other languages, I like to just start and kind of absorb it as I go.  But I'm starting to spend too much time on figuring
out
> how to get a basic framework going with complete basic open and save functionality.  The issue is figuring out what the source is for the relevant commands.
>
> At this point, I have a command that I have identified from the SDK, IPersistFile::Save, which appears may be the solution to the save function at least (someone pls correct me if I'm on the wrong track there).  But basically, I am writing a small program that has one picture window and
one
> text window and I want to be able to scroll through my Tarot cards and
enter
> in my own text for each card.
>
> If anyone would like to take the time to help me get over this learning curve and speed things up a little, I'd be very grateful.  More info available on request.  It might help out other newbies as well.
>
> Greer
>
>

There's an out-of-print book "Mastering the MFC" by Richard Parker which is pretty helpful with this. Try the used online book market.