Question

I do not want to use the “graphics resources” to create the dialog!

What I have so far:

CDialog *dlgWin = new CDialog();
dlgWin->Create("hello");  // <-- but this Errors: "Debug Assertion failed!"

thx

Answer 1

You need to create the dialog template in the resource editor, and provide it to the CDialog constructor.

Here’s the documentation, they also explain how to dynamically create your dialog in memory, its not trivial and I’d advise against it. I’d advise against using MFC altogether.

The MSDN documentation is usually pretty well written, read it.