Leadwerks Integration with MFC

[darrenc182]

Does anyone know how to integrate Leadwerks with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) so that Leadwerks rendering and data structures can work with MFC?

[Rick]

I don't know how, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to. Do you know and enjoy using MFC? Maybe there is an alternative that we can help you with?

 

Did you try creating an MFC project and include LE in it? If so what kind of errors you are getting?

[darrenc182]

Hey Rick. I don't know of anyone that enjoys using MFC, but I do know how to use it. I have used it a few times to write tools, which is what I want to do with this project. I know how to do it with OpenGL, but I want to write a ragdoll creator/editor for leadwerks. I think it would be better to use Leadwerks and MFC directly rather then using Leadwerks, OpenGL and MFC because the former sounds less bloated and more efficient. I haven't tried it yet with Leadwerks and MFC. I just wanted to see if anyone had any information or if it has been done before.

[Rick]

Not to my knowledge. I know others have done it with .NET or the Win 32 API, but not MFC. Another GUI library might be able to be easier though. Maybe something like wxWidgets or Qt.

[Josh]

If you can create an OpenGL viewport, it will work.

[darrenc182]

If you can create an OpenGL viewport, it will work.

 

So are you suggesting that I need to use OpenGL, Leadwerks and MFC together and I can't just use Leadwerks and MFC?

[Josh]

You create an OpenGL viewport, and then Leadwerks will render to that using a custom buffer.

[VeTaL]

I'm also re-writing some Editors, so i found:

http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2386&sid=d34f26c4bd59a140630b157a57cc4427

http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1943

http://forum.leadwerks.com/download/file.php?id=752 - this works for me

 

Hope this would help

[darrenc182]

I'm also re-writing some Editors, so i found:

http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2386&sid=d34f26c4bd59a140630b157a57cc4427

http://forum.leadwerks.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1943

http://forum.leadwerks.com/download/file.php?id=752 - this works for me

 

Hope this would help

 

I finally got some time to work on this. I was able to get it to work using the references you gave VeTaL, thanks. I am getting this stupid unhandled exception when the render context is set to NULL before a call to wglMakeCurrent. I do not know why it happens because it will work without any problems sometimes. It only seems to crash after running another app that was using OpenGL before. I don't know why this is happening yet, but I think it's because the MFC app cannot acquire an available render context. That doesn't make much such because I check to see if the render context was created successfully. Anyway I will continue to try. Thanks for all the help and input.