Drawing lib for MFC apps?

[F. GEIGER]

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Drawing lib for MFC apps?

Hi all,

I have to build drawing capabilities into an already existing MFC application.

I am looking now for a lib, ActiveX control or whatever, that lays an additional level of abstraction over MFC (like wxWidgets for example). This level should emphasize drawing, spliting, size-changing of rectangles.

Yes, that doesn't seem to be very sophisticated drawing, but, nevertheless I'd like to have something more advanced than MFC.

I have experience in working with wxWidgets, but it doesn't seem to be possible to merge a wxWidget control into a MFC app.

Any hint is appreciated.

Many thanks in advance and kind regards
Franz GEIGER

[Chris Burnette]

I'd hardly call wxWindows a drawing library. It's more of a multi-platform
GUI library. I've found it comparible to MFC in many ways while adding some
niceties that MFC doesn't have.

Also, I think it's possible to integrate MFC and wxWindows. wxWindows ships
with a sample app called MFC that has a very simple demo with the 2 of them.
However, I'm not sure to the extent this support goes and could be more
trouble than it's worth.

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Drawing lib for MFC apps?

Hi all,

I have to build drawing capabilities into an already existing MFC
application.

I am looking now for a lib, ActiveX control or whatever, that lays an
additional level of abstraction over MFC (like wxWidgets for example).
This level should emphasize drawing, spliting, size-changing of
rectangles.

Yes, that doesn't seem to be very sophisticated drawing, but, nevertheless
I'd like to have something more advanced than MFC.

I have experience in working with wxWidgets, but it doesn't seem to be
possible to merge a wxWidget control into a MFC app.

Any hint is appreciated.

Many thanks in advance and kind regards
Franz GEIGER

[Ajay Kalra]

Hello F. GEIGER,

I have to build drawing capabilities into an already existing MFC
application.

I am looking now for a lib, ActiveX control or whatever, that lays an
additional level of abstraction over MFC (like wxWidgets for example).
This level should emphasize drawing, spliting, size-changing of
rectangles.

Yes, that doesn't seem to be very sophisticated drawing, but,
nevertheless I'd like to have something more advanced than MFC.

I have experience in working with wxWidgets, but it doesn't seem to be
possible to merge a wxWidget control into a MFC app.

MFC was not designed to be a drawing library. Its mostly a wrapper for the
WIN32 GDI functions as far drawing is concerned. You will have to look elsewhere
for drawing library, including DirectX, OGL etc. I dont have any familiarity
with wxWidgets. From what I recall it was touted to be a cross platform GUI
tool. That typically never works right.

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