Oh god, I've been going through foosions general component tutorial and the windowing part is killing me. Is all that code really necessary? My component I'm going to develop is only going to need a settings dialog (I'm skipping columns UI for now), that only need like 3-4 static controls,and my thoughts are this:
a ) Do I really need to sit down and understand all this ATL/WTL stuff? I've always avoided GUI programming in C++ to all costs, and now I really understand why.
b ) Can I maybe do the dialog in the Visual Editor in VS2008 embed it as an resource and use it? If so, how?
c ) Since my dialog is going to be very simple, how about creating a small class myself that interacts with WinAPI directly? I guess I could loan foosions wrapper, but I don't really get everything it does and contains and using things I don't even understand why it works is kinda useless.
d ) Can MFC help me in this?
I know I sound like a total idiot, but this whole GUI programming in C++ truly isn't my field. I've grasped so much within the fb2k sdk during the last days and I would hate getting stopped by my lack of experience in GUI programming.
Thanks
