Createdialog Error 1812

Join INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMSFOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS Log In Come Join Us! Are you aComputer / IT professional?Join Tek-Tips Forums! Talk With Other Members Be Notified Of ResponsesTo Your Posts Keyword Search One-Click Access To YourFavorite Forums Automated SignaturesOn Your Posts Best Of All, It's Free! Join Us! *Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Posting Guidelines Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.Tek-Tips Posting Policies Jobs Jobs from Indeed What: Where: jobs by Link To This Forum! Add Stickiness To Your Site By Linking To This Professionally Managed Technical Forum.Just copy and paste the BBCode HTML Markdown MediaWiki reStructuredText code below into your site. Microsoft: Visual C++ Forum at Tek-Tips HomeForumsProgrammersDevelopment ToolsMicrosoft: Visual C++ Forum 1812 error when trying to create dialog 2 thread116-889039 Forum Search FAQs Links MVPs 1812 error when trying to create dialog 1812 error when trying to create dialog snuv (Programmer) (OP) 28 Jul 04 05:20 I have a very small dll that only contains 1 simple dialog with two member variablesCODE#define DLLExport _declspec( dllexport )extern "C"{DLLExport int GetUserLoginAuto(char * pszUserName, BOOL* pbPermission);}int GetUserLoginAuto(char * pszUserName, BOOL* pbPermission){CPermissions test;int nRet = test.DoModal();*pbPermission = test.m_bAutoLogin;if (nRet !=IDOK)test.m_nErrorCode = nRet;return test.m_nErrorCode;}message boxes work ok but the do modal returns -1 and the last error is 1812Can anyone shed any light on this one? Go not to cats for advice for they will just walk over the keyboard RE: 1812 error when trying to create dialog tchouch (Programmer) 28 Jul 04 06:16 The problem with MFC DLLs is wrong ResourceHandle (it is the handle of executable called LoadLibrary(), not dll!). You can change this handle with AfxSetResourceHandle(m_Hinst_of_your_dll) and then call DoModal().Do not forget to restore old handle a

with a dialog from the RC file.I compile all my resources into a resource DLL. And my code loads theresource DLL.When I call DoModal on my dialog, sometimes it succeeds and sometimesDoModal() returns -1 and GetLastError() gives me error 1812(ERROR_RESOURCE_DATA_NOT_FOUND)As I said, sometimes I am able to successfully do a DoModal and it failssometimes. I opened my resource DLL and varified that it does contain thedialog I want to load.Can anyone point me to possible cause of this? I am using VC 7.1 on WindowsXP.Thanks muchSug Ajay http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=889039 Kalra 2006-03-26 17:30:29 UTC PermalinkRaw Message Post by SugI have written an app and derived a calls from CDialog. This class isassociated with a dialog from the RC file.I compile all my resources into a resource DLL. And my code loads theresource DLL.Did you add this DLL to resource chain so that these resources can befound when you are http://microsoft.public.vc.mfc.narkive.com/hxP6nbSw/domodal-throws-error-1812-error-resource-data-not-found loading a resource from this DLL. (SeeCDynLinkLibrary).----Ajay Kalra***@yahoo.com VSP 2006-03-27 06:51:18 UTC PermalinkRaw Message Loading the resource dll is not sufficient.You have to call AfxSetResourceHandle(handle to the resource dll)HANDLE hPrevRes = AfxGetResourceHandle()AfxSetResourceHandle(hRes);...Use the resource(Create dialog, load strings...)AfxSetResourceHandle(hPrevRes);-VSPPost by SugHello,I have written an app and derived a calls from CDialog. This class isassociated with a dialog from the RC file.I compile all my resources into a resource DLL. And my code loads theresource DLL.When I call DoModal on my dialog, sometimes it succeeds and sometimesDoModal() returns -1 and GetLastError() gives me error 1812(ERROR_RESOURCE_DATA_NOT_FOUND)As I said, sometimes I am able to successfully do a DoModal and it failssometimes. I opened my resource DLL and varified that it does contain thedialog I want to load.Can anyone point me to possible cause of this? I am using VC 7.1 on WindowsXP.Thanks muchSug Sug 2006-04-03 16:12:53 UTC PermalinkRaw Message Post by VSPLoading the resource dll is not sufficient.You have to call AfxSetResourceHandle(handle to the resource dll)HANDLE hPrevRes = AfxGetResourceHandle()AfxSetResourceHandle(hRes);...Use the resource(Create dialog, load strings...)AfxSetResourceHandle(hPrevRes);-VSPHi VSP,Thanks for your responce. Yes

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