Visual studio 2003 DIALOG -> DIALOGEX dialog not shown

[_Arnt_Witteveen_]

Hi,

when using visual studio 2003 to edit resources, it changes DIALOG to DIALOGEX automatically for some reason (even when editing only the text on a button in the dialog). When we call 'Modal' from ADM's Dialog suite, the dialog is not shown in illustrator cs2 (but it does disable all menu's! So illustrator hangs).
This happens only when the dialog is declared in the rc file as DIALOGEX, not when it's declared as DIALOG.

Is this something in our code, or a illustrator bug, or something else? Any way to fix this (I can edit all DIALOGEX back to DIALOG by hand, but that's not a very good solution to me). Or is there a way to stop VC++ 2003 changing DIALOG to DIALOGEX?

[_StephanB_]

Hi!

I got the same problem and would also like to know if there is another solution than editing the resource with hand.

Cheers,
Stephan

[_Arnt_Witteveen_]

Our current 'solution' is to use visual studio6 to make the plugin... Incredible that this doesn't get any official replies at all, I think. Seems like such a enormous bug that every plugin developer would run into to right away. Maybe there aren't any plugin developers ;-)

[_Lance_Good_]

Yes, this is extremely irritating. I spent an afternoon tracking it down myself.

Anyway, I wrote a simple python script that does a find and replace. I have it set to run as a pre-build event in Visual Studio. Here's the seven line python code (from memory - not tested):

f = open("foo.rc","r");
txt = f.read();
f.close()
txt.replace("DIALOGEX","DIALOG")
f = open("foo.rc","w");
f.write(txt)
f.close()

[_Andrey_Zhuravlev_]

I'm using VS2008.

You need to add one line in "resource.h" file:

#define DIALOGEX DIALOG DISCARDABLE

press F9:
this cause error RC2112 : BEGIN expected in dialog

then double click on error:
manualy edit line :

FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif", 0, 0, 0x0
-> FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"

And Recompile project!

[A. Patterson]

Yeah, this has been a problem for a long time. I just hand edit the file (including the DIALOGEX -> DIALOG), since as you point out, you need to alter the FONT line anyways (which I just entirely remove).

At one point I had a segex pre-build step that simply did all this for more, but somewhere along the line this got dropped from my project. I've filed a bug about this on a couple of CS* betas, but no dice as yet. The last time I did so, it was suggested to me to try EVE, which I will when I get a chance.