Connecting ideas to code
I put together the IDTToolsOptionsPage dialog for the gnuclient options today, including the property interface.
There are a few more options to be placed on the dialog for remote editing, once I design how that’s going to work robustly.
Here’s how it looks at the moment:
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I’ve just about completed my first ATL dialog box. I don’t think I’ve written a call to ::SendMessage in, oh, 8 years or so… I’ve been using MFC almost exclusively for GUI code. Anyway, I’ve managed to navigate the labrynthine documention and finally have a custom options page for VisEmacsDotNet (VisEmacs.NET ? too cliché?).
There’s still [...]
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Like the contestants on last night’s Apprentice, I’m not an art critic, nor an artist. However I did make new icons for the toolbar since that I solved the custom bitmap problem.
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