Using Visual Studio 2010 C++ with MFC. The number of configurable settings in my application is slowly creeping up. I managed to design a settings class where adding a single line will add a setting to the program and support reading/writing that setting to my ini file. However, I still need to go into my gui editor and edit the options dialog box, moving text boxes around, aligning labels etc. which is kind of a pain.
How would I autogenerate my options dialog box such that I could give it a data structure and it could generate the option interface for me? It’s okay if it’s something like a list box. I’m thinking something like the the Visual Studio properties dialog box which has the look of something that’s programmatically generated:
I’m just trying to get a conceptual overview of what controls would be best and how to piece it together. Of course if there is a link to a web page discussing this that would be great.
You want the
CMFCPropertyGridCtrlclass. It was introduced in one of the MFC updates, but I’m not sure whether or not they come pre-installed with Visual Studio 2010; you may need to install something extra.