Hi.
I began study MFC programming from Prosise two months ago. I finished the first two part of the book and will begin Part III. To be honest, I still cannot design a program of *my own* and implement it using MFC.
I read reviews about MFC books including Prosise, Jones, and Deitel. I see again and again that one of the most difficult part of teaching MFC is to *not* discuss AppWizard and ClassWizard. Prosise does it by chapter 4. Nonetheless, Prosise's book is an ideal MFC *reference*.
Anyways, I learned quite a bit from reading the first two part. I really appreciate the document/view architecture. I want to start implementing my win32 console programs into MFC so bad. I can just *feel* it, but I cannot get it done. There are many missing pieces in this puzzle. I can picture the final results, but there are so many missing pieces (how?, why?, what?, when?). I have no idea how to gather all the missing pieces.
I first began programming (ever) as well as programming using C++ last fall semester. C++ caught my interest quick. Learning MFC, for some reason, is not the same. I cannot apply the same formula of *diving in*, which was how I became so proficient with C++ in both design and implementation. I can solve most problems using C++ (except for big projects). One reason, I think, is because there are *too many tools* in MFC. I can say I have seen close to just about everything there is to see in C++. I tried again and again to get apply the same strategy to MFC, but it does not seem to work.
So here I am, beginning Part III from Prosise's book and howing no is lost. What are my options?
I can considering Jones' Introduction to MFC Programming with
Visual C++. If nothing else works, I will most likely go a different direction (Jones) and then return to Promise.
Kuphryn
