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variable loading using XML

24-Jan-02 4:09

Try looking for resizable dialog classes on codeproject or codeguru and try comparing them to resizable 'skinned' projects. I created a skinnable dialog box that resizes so it is possible.

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Re: resizeable sign

Jon Hulatt24-Jan-02 4:09

Jon Hulatt

24-Jan-02 4:09

It's part of a status bar. See CStatusBar in MSDN and also try building an MFC Appwizard SDI application. It has a status bar with a Gripper (as it's called) by default.

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Re: resizeable sign

Shog⁹24-Jan-02 12:26

Shog⁹

24-Jan-02 12:26

If you need the gripper without a status bar, you can create it; it's a style of the Scrollbar control. Never tried to use it this way myself though, or even seen it used, so can't tell you how it works.

If you just want to draw it, you can use DrawFrameControl() to do so:

<br />
::DrawFrameControl(hDC, &rect, DFC_SCROLL, DFCS_SCROLLSIZEGRIP);<br />

...You can use ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL); and ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYHSCROLL); to get the correct width and height.

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Jon Newman24-Jan-02 3:55

Re: variable loading using XML

24-Jan-02 3:55

I am developing an app that will read an XML file from a standard web server and use its contents as variables in a dialog based app. I will be using it to read member profiles. There will be a separate XML document for each member using the following XML tags.

<name>Joe Bloggs</location>
<age>24</age>
<location>England</location>

and these will be displayed in the dialog as:

Name: Joe Bloggs
Age: 24
Location: England

The field names are labels in the dialog and the variables are taken from the XML document.
The idea of this is to be able to update user profiles myself without having to re-distribute the app or use a HTML web page control.

Andy ideas would be gladly appreciated.

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HintiFlo24-Jan-02 4:02

HintiFlo

24-Jan-02 4:02

Take a look at CPs XML/Soap-corner!

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Re: variable loading using XML

Stan Shannon24-Jan-02 4:17

Stan Shannon

24-Jan-02 4:17

I'm sort of playing around with the same stuff right now. You need to use a parser and that sort of means MS's parser. You might take a look at the following site:

http://www.earthweb.com/article/0,,10455_629271,00.html

It contains about as much useful information as I've found so far. As usual the MSDN documentation for the C++ side is very sparse.

Let me know what you find out.

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Re: variable loading using XML

Stan Shannon24-Jan-02 5:29

Stan Shannon

24-Jan-02 5:29

Here's another link:

http://p2p.wrox.com/content/comdev/ie5xml.asp

Also, after looking a little more closely at MSDN it is a little more thorough than I thought at first. The "XML Dom Methods" section under the XML section (Platform SDK Documentation/Data Services/XML...) should be enough to get you started. I'm up and rolling now.

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SetMenuInfo?

Vuvirt24-Jan-02 3:35

24-Jan-02 3:35

Hello

,
Did anyone use the SetMenuInfo API?
I want to use it in a MFC project but all I get is:
'SetMenuInfo' : undeclared identifier message
So can you please tell me what should I include or define or what ...
Thanks!

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X3m

Ernest Laurentin24-Jan-02 4:02

Ernest Laurentin

24-Jan-02 4:02

Note: MFC already provide ModifyMenu function that can do what you want.
In case you still want to do it Yourself, here's an example:

BOOL ChangeMenuText(LPTSTR szText, UINT nID, CMenu* pMenu)
{
	MENUITEMINFO mii;
	memset(&mii, 0, sizeof(MENUITEMINFO));
	mii.cbSize = sizeof(MENUITEMINFO);
	mii.fMask = MIIM_STATE|MIIM_TYPE;
	mii.wID = nID;
	mii.fType = MFT_STRING;
	mii.dwTypeData = (LPTSTR)szText;
	mii.cch   = _tcslen(szText);

	return ::SetMenuItemInfo(pMenu->GetSafeHmenu(), nID, FALSE, &mii);
}

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Vuvirt24-Jan-02 4:12

24-Jan-02 4:12

Thank you!

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Michael Dunn24-Jan-02 7:00

Michael Dunn

24-Jan-02 7:00

See the VC forum FAQ.

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Vuvirt25-Jan-02 2:37

25-Jan-02 2:37

Where is it?

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CBitmap-> .bmp file

Daniel Visan24-Jan-02 3:22

Daniel Visan

24-Jan-02 3:22

Can you please tell or point me to some information about writing a CBitmap which I create in my app to a .bmp file

Thank you in advance

Re: CBitmap-> .bmp file

Joaquín M López Muñoz24-Jan-02 3:32

Joaquín M López Muñoz

24-Jan-02 3:32

Check the Bitmaps & Palettes section here at CodeProject. There's a couple of articles that do what you want.

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Mulitple SDI windows.

Jon Newman24-Jan-02 2:53

24-Jan-02 2:53

Are there any demos that show how a SDI program like Macromedia Dreamweaver uses multiple windows. I.e. for every new ducument a new window is opened. I have tried to implement my own attept at this and all i get is the one window that opens all documents.

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Joaquín M López Muñoz24-Jan-02 2:58

Joaquín M López Muñoz

24-Jan-02 2:58

I'm not sure I've understood your question. If you use SDI, then by design a different app instance is launched every time you double click on a document. Could you please be more specific?

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Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Jon Newman24-Jan-02 3:07

24-Jan-02 3:07

What i mean is, The app i use has a splash screen and a few other startup features. what i want is a way of creating a new windows from the File>New menu item and when another document is opened while the app is still running.

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Joaquín M López Muñoz24-Jan-02 3:23

Joaquín M López Muñoz

24-Jan-02 3:23

I see... Well, I have no idea myself, but I found this Usenet article that might be of help to you. Good luck!

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Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Vuvirt24-Jan-02 4:52

24-Jan-02 4:52

Hello,
I've got a very simple decision to your problem
Here it is:

void CYourView::OnFileNew()
{
WinExec(AfxGetAppName(),SW_SHOWNORMAL);
}

Add a handler of ID_FILENEW menu from the classwizard in your CView derived class with the above code. Enjoy!

Best regards,
X3m

Jon Newman24-Jan-02 5:07

24-Jan-02 5:07

now the app keeps re-opening itself and required the PC to be turned off. Is there a way of just re-initialising the main window each time and not the app?

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Vuvirt25-Jan-02 2:32

25-Jan-02 2:32

Are you sure you handle OnFileNew in your CView and not in your CMainFrame or CWinApp class?
I have a working code of this if ou wan't I can email it to you?

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X3m

Jon Newman25-Jan-02 6:43

25-Jan-02 6:43

yes if you would do so that would be great. jonathann4@hotmail.com

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Vuvirt28-Jan-02 21:58