Feature Requests item #1547187, was opened at 2006-08-26 10:46
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Category: documentation
Group: Next Release (example)
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: lgavitt (lgavitt)
Assigned to: Bob Arnson (barnson)
Summary: More example projects

Initial Comment:

I'd like to see alot more example projects that, side 
by side, show the differences between the default 
configurations and what you have to change or add to 
get the desired results. To be even more useful, they 
should be presented in a fashion that is fairly 
generic and with the assumption that the viewer has 
minimal to no knowledge. 

By generic, I mean not a large project that shows 
several pieces in one. For example, the microsoft MFC 
example projects show how to accomplish things, but 
so often they so many things in that one project that 
it becomes difficult to pull out the portion that you 
need. In CTreeview, maybe I want to programatically 
assign the text display, but a newbie could easily 
get lost in the examples that modify the text, the 
icon, tool tip, it's parent, all based on a pidl, the 
phase of the moon and what angle your monitor is at. 
The advanced level of the pidls is far from what a 
newbie needs to be trying to absorb when simply 
putting 'tree 1', 'sub item 1', sub item 2 of 4' 
would do the trick.

I've tought many about hardware and software 
development over the past 20 years. Sometimes I catch 
myself making the mistake of speaking from my level 
of knowledge well above theirs. Simply forgetting 
that they don't know. Now that I'm talking above 
them, they won't know until I bring it back down.

With that, I'd like to submit the following example 
project that shows how to implement multiple browse 
buttons into a single dialog and allows for the 
creation of multiple directories selected by the 
user. I've found others trying to achieve the same 
thing and finding it difficult and so did I until I 
found the right combination. Now its not so difficult 
and seems intuitive, but I remember the struggle I 
had trying to find the answers.

Thank you.


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