I''m learning mfc programming and I''m wondering how does directx and mfc work together? Would you typically create a window manually as in deriving a class from CWnd or from CFrameWnd or would you use the document/view architecture? I imagine I will get a reply saying you can use all three or maybe something I dont even know about, but if so which one would generally be used? I''m just curious how they work together.

Unless you are making a tool there really isn't a justification to use MFC with DirectX, but it can be done.

You can use CWnd directly or any classes derived from it as well as a dialog based or even a full blown MFC Document/View SDI/MDI application. Really it depends on how you partition your code. It's all going to boil down to connecting to a window. How easy or hard you make it is up to you...

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-deadlinegrunt

P.S. This is geared more towards graphics as that seems what a lot of people take on first and your mention of CWnd. This isn't to say that you can't use other parts of DirectX with an MFC application, like an audio/video editor for example, and it be completely justified but this is a game programming site so keep that in mind if my response seems narrow and simple minded.

Edited by - deadlinegrunt on July 11, 2001 4:57:42 AM

There are some MFC wrapper classes for DirectX functions somewhere, but I''m sorry to say I can''t remember where I saw them. Probably search on Yahoo! or MSDN to find them.
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WNDCLASSEX Reality;
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Reality.lpfnWndProc=ComputerGames;
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RegisterClassEx(&Reality);


Unable to register Reality...what''s wrong?
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Dan Upton
Lead Designer
WolfHeart Software

I recently posted a similar question on another programming site; one not focused on games. The response I got there was that MFC is fine for utilities and stuff like that, but for games its really slow. Since I don''t know anything about programming with DX I can''t tell you how to use them together, but the advice I''ve recieved has that you can, but you shouldn''t. Good luck.