Thread: MFC Dialogue based Prog NEED HELP PLEASE

No way dude!!! Sounds like you should be using a sdi or an mdi instead of a single dialog application. This way you can serialize your the drawings by using the document... There is a tutorial in the help files called scribble.
If you are still persistent on the idea of using a dialog... you might want to change the background color to white or something..
You might want to load a bitmap as the bacground..

then you will need to know the location of the drawing rectangle so that you can draw on it...
to draw on the rectangle you can access the device context by calling GetDC() or declaring an object CClientDC dc(this);

then using the normal GDI calls...

You can always create your own derived class from CWnd to create the drawing surface then create it on the dialogs Init handler....

just some ideas...

why don't you try this...

Create an SDI or MDI program
Create a new tool bar using your resource editor
and create it in the function:
CMainFrame::OnCreate(...) // message handler...


Then instead of docking it to the top dock it to the left side.....

notice the CBRS_LEFT it is usually CBRS_TOP....
you can create your own tool bar and create it like this
or just modify the default toolbard through the resource editor...
and put the buttons that you want...
CBRS_LEFT

Code:

if (!m_wndToolBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_LEFT | CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC) || !m_wndToolBar.LoadToolBar(IDR_MAINFRAME))
{
         TRACE0("Failed to create toolbar\n");
          return -1;      // fail to create
}