I'm having a great deal of difficulty following what's going on in Chapter 20. I'm getting confused between company name and customer name, which he seems to use interchangeably. There are other inconsistencies with the naming of controls that are confusing me too.

My code wouldn't compile.

I compared my code with his and altered it where they differed. I also renamed the controls where I found differences in the names. This time it compiled, but I'm getting a run-time error in file dlgdata.cpp where it asserts false because pSite is NULL.

HWND CDataExchange::PrepareCtrl(int nIDC)
{
    ASSERT(nIDC != 0);
    ASSERT(nIDC != -1); // not allowed
    HWND hWndCtrl;
   COleControlSite* pSite = NULL;
    m_pDlgWnd->GetDlgItem(nIDC, &hWndCtrl);
    if (hWndCtrl == NULL)
    {
      // Could be a windowless OCX
      pSite = m_pDlgWnd->GetOleControlSite(nIDC);
      if (pSite == NULL)
      {
           TRACE(traceAppMsg, 0, "Error: no data exchange control with ID 0x%04X.\n", nIDC);
           ASSERT(FALSE);
           AfxThrowNotSupportedException();
      }
    }
    m_idLastControl = nIDC;
    m_bEditLastControl = FALSE; // not an edit item by default

   return hWndCtrl;
}

Does anyone have the solution to this and would I be able to use it if I altered the database path to my machine?


Dan Crossley

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Dan Crossley

I've fixed it.

In Figure 20-15, page 1007, the name of the Cancel button should be "IDC_CANCEL", not "IDC_CANCELORDER", in order to match the code from the book and for it to run correctly. Similarly, in Figure 20-17 the name of the edit box to the right of the "Order ID" label should be "IDC_NEWORDERID", not "IDC_NEWORDER_ID". Also in Figure 20-17, the name "IDC_PRODCUCTNAME" should obviously be "IDC_PRODUCTNAME".

Dan Crossley