Creating a New Application with AppWizard

Scribble: MDI Drawing Application, Lesson 2

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In this lesson, you’ll learn about the steps and tools used in developing and building an application, starting with AppWizard-generated files.

Suggested Reading

• Create an MFC EXE Program with AppWizard, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• Visual C++ Wizards that Help You Begin Your Program, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• Overview: Resource Editors, Visual C++ User’s Guide
  
  
• Overview: Text Editor, Visual C++ User’s Guide
  
  
• Overview: Project Workspaces, Visual C++ User’s Guide
  
  
• Using WizardBar, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• Debugging Your Program, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• Using the Classes to Write Applications for Windows, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• The Frame-Window Classes Created by AppWizard, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide
  
  
• Document and View Classes Created by AppWizard, Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide

Once you’ve completed your initial application design, you’ll typically perform the following tasks to develop the application with the development environment and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC):

• Use AppWizard to create a set of C++ starter files and associated Windows resources — a starter application that you can build and run immediately.
  
  
• Use the resource editors to construct the objects that make up the user interface, such as menus and dialog boxes.
  
  
• Use elements of the development environment to generate and edit application-specific code:
  • The text editor
    
    
  • ClassView
    
    
  • ClassWizard
    
    
  • WizardBar
• Build, browse, test, and debug your project files — then add more code.

The steps tend to be iterative: You’ll go back and forth between editing the user interface and writing code all through the development process. You can also do the steps in a different order, depending on your working style.