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Hi,

I’m trying reduce the size of the prof-uis dll used in my project by uncommenting the #define’s in the profuis.h file and I came across a couple of errors in the prof-uis source code - when I disable the ribbon (__EXT_MFC_NO_RIBBON_BAR), I got errors first in ExtPaintManager that CExtComboBox was missing, so I added this include to the file. Then, I got a link error and it turns out that the following line around line count 5025:
#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_RIBBON_BAR)

removes the definition for the method CExtCmdIcon * CExtBarCheckBoxButton::GetIconPtr() which triggers the link error.

I’ll let you know if I find others.

Thanks,

Adrian

You can also reduce the library size by excluding Office2007 paint managers. To do this, just comment out the following line in the Prof-UIS\Include\Resources\resource.rc resource file:

#include "Res2007\\Res2007.rc"

The last thing you can do is to exclude unneeded international language resources. Just uncomment all the lines for the languages you do not need

#define __EXT_MFC_NO_RESOURCES_xxxxxxx

Yes, you can use the static linking. You can read more about this in How to link statically with Prof-UIS?

Thanks - removing resources made a big difference in the final size.

One issue though - I couldn’t remvoe the line #include "Res2007\\Res2007.rc" as I use the "luna blue" theme. So what I did in res2007.rc I commented all lines referring to resources other than luna blue, and that worked well. What I would suggest though to make this easier is to provde #define _EXT... for 2007 resources with finer granularity - so we can disable various themes individually.

BTW, the initial size of the dll (release) was over 8 Mb and now is about 2.5 Mb.

After all the changes I made in the prof-uis source, I’m now reluctant to install the new 2.81 version. Fixing the issues I mentioned in your source code would make it much easier for me (and probably others) to upgrade to a new release.

Thanks,

Adrian

Even after removing a lot of the functionality, the ProfUIS280m-RDE.dll is still around 6Mb. Is there anything else I can do to make even smaller?

Would linking with the static version of prof-uis make it smaller yet? I’m thinking that the linker will remove all unused code. My application uses a number of basic features of prof-uis, so a lot of the advanced stuff is not needed. But because my main window is in a dll, I know there could be some runtime issues when linking with the static version of prof-uis and dynamic version of MFC.

Adrian

Another problem:
I tried to remove the dynamic bar site, but that caused an error in the NC Frame classes (there is a specialized template

template < >
class CExtNCW < CExtDynamicMDIChildWnd >
    : public CExtDynamicMDIChildWnd
    , public CExtNcFrameImpl

that causes the error. IMO, this should be ifdef-ed, as I may want to use the NC classes (which is my case), but without support for dunamic bars.

Adrian

BTW, for the second error, I moved the #if(!defined....) line after the GetIconPtr function defintion and that fixed the error.