Display MFC dialogs in Word XP COM add-in

[Cameron]

Hello,

I am having great difficulty trying to make use of MFC derived dialog
boxes in a Word XP COM add-in I am developing. The problem boils down
to when the MFC code is trying to resolve the resource instance
handle. To see what i mean just create a dialog box using CDialog and
call its DoModal method. If you step through the code you will get a
number of asserts.

I have tried to put all the code into a MFC extension DLL (and a
regular DLL) and implement CDialog:oModal with a call to set the
resource handle to the handle for the DLL prior to the base DoModal
call as one would to use a resource in a DLL. However I am still
running into the same problem.

Anyone have any idea whats going on here? I want to use MFC because
my add-in makes use of an internally developed MFC based UI library
and I do not want to have to re-write everything in Win32.

Cheers

Cameron

 

[Chango V.]

There shouldn't be a problem doing this. Usually, it takes just starting
each externally-callable function in a "regular" MFC DLL with:
AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());

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