MFC IDs question!!

[bimgot]

probably something really simple but i'm new to MFC and was just wondering if there is any way to easily deal with ID's

for instance, i'm creating an audio mixer in a dialog application which therefore needs to contain instances of the same group of buttons, executing the same functions, but on different files.

eg. play1, stop1, play2, stop2, etc.

is there any way to create or access the ID's for the buttons so that instead of specifying each ID individually when needed, a for loop or simelar could be used to specify which set of buttons (ie which channel number) should be referred to?

thanks in advance

[ahoodin]

I have put resource IDs in 2-D tables before. Each row can correspond to a group. Very easy to do.

[hmc]

One possibility is to put all ID's of buttons in an array:

UINT aButtons[10] = { IDC_BUTTON1, IDC_BUTTON2, ....};

or create a struct/class

class CMyClass
{
  UINT m_id;
  int m_iChannelNr;
  virtual void MyFunction();
};

and put these class objects in an array. If necessary derive from your base class and use a different implementation for MyFunction() in the derived classes.
Hope this helps.

[bimgot]

thanks, i figured a class or array would be the answer.. how would this allow me to dynamically control the number of channels without having to manually enter the ID's into the array - is there some way that it can be done automatically? say for instance if the user wanted to add another channel to the mixer? i might be being stupid here!

thanks in advance