Re: Combo Box with Tooltip - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Joaquín M López Muñoz21-Feb-02 3:05

21-Feb-02 3:05

Ummm... Sometimes it takes longer than desired to get these things fixed... Try removing __declspec(dllexport) (but keep APIENTRY!) and add a .DEF file (i.e. create it and add it to the project as if it were a .cpp file) like this:

LIBRARY      "MYFIRSTCPL"
DESCRIPTION  'My first CPL'

EXPORTS
    CPlApplet @1

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create a text (letter) to be printed from a dialog box

Qadddd21-Feb-02 2:12

Qadddd

21-Feb-02 2:12

Hello, In fact, I have a dialog box where I retrieve several information (name, address, etc), and I would like to create a letter (so a text document) using these informations and print it directly (no storage and differed print, but asking for printer ...).
The possibility to have different fonts/size in the letter, to be able to choose the printer, etc would be great.
Could someone indicate me the different steps (how to create document, how update it with variables linked to the dialog box, how ask for the printer, how to print it, how to change fonts, colors, etc) to arrive at this result .
At least a draft, i will look deeper by myself after.
Thanks in advance
DD Confused | :confused:

Re: create a text (letter) to be printed from a dialog box

Joaquín M López Muñoz21-Feb-02 2:52

Joaquín M López Muñoz

21-Feb-02 2:52

Some other folk posted a message some days ago about using a hidden CRichEditCtrl for printing purposes. Doing a quick search on the net yielded this article. Also, creating a simple RFC on the fly is easy.

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IDE problem

Jerome Conus21-Feb-02 1:46

Jerome Conus

21-Feb-02 1:46

I have a very annoying problem, and I've got no idea how to fix it : when I type some code in Visual Studio, the parameters of methods, or the available methods of an instance don't appear !!

It used to work !!!

Anyone knows how to switch this feature on ?

Thanks !

Jerome

Re: IDE problem

Mazdak21-Feb-02 2:25

Mazdak

21-Feb-02 2:25

Just guess:
Tools--->Options--->Keyboard

Change some of configuration there

Mazy

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Re: IDE problem

Anders Molin21-Feb-02 2:33

Anders Molin

21-Feb-02 2:33

Close VS, delete the projectname.ncb file in the directory where you have your project, and start VS again...

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Combo Box with Tooltip

John Clump21-Feb-02 1:14

John Clump

21-Feb-02 1:14

Hi everyone. Is there existing source code, or perhaps someone could explain to me how, to allow a tooltip to pop up over a combo box when the user puts the mouse over the combo box? MS Word does this when the user puts the ouse cursor over the font size combo box on one of the control toolbars. I have a font size combobox on a control bar, and I want the tooltip to pop up when the user puts the mouse over it. Thanks in advance!

Re: Combo Box with Tooltip

Mazdak21-Feb-02 1:45

Mazdak

21-Feb-02 1:45

In CP there is article about List box with tooltip support,check it,they are the same.
You have to subclass,from CComboBox and ovverride some functions that you can see in that aticle.

Mazy

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Re: Combo Box with Tooltip

Shog⁹21-Feb-02 10:02

Shog⁹

21-Feb-02 10:02

This is the technique i use (this is probably an MFC-only technique):

Create the toolbar with a placeholder button at the position you want the combo box to be.
Give the placeholder button the same ID as the combo box.
Enter a description for the placeholder button. Put a newline within the description; all text after the newline will be the tooltip.
After the toolbar is created, modify the placeholder button to be as wide as you wish the combo box to be, and make it a separator.
Make the combo box a child of the toolbar, give it the same ID and position as the placeholder button (the ID bit is critical to having it work).
Set the owner of the combo box to be the window you wish to recieve combo box messages.

If the toolbar is in a CFrameWnd-derived window, you should be good to go. If not, you'll have to do a little extra work to handle tooltip notification messages, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.

good luck!

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SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 0:29

Neha

21-Feb-02 0:29

Hi,
I have a SDI Application.In InitInstance() of my application i have
SetWindowPos(.....);
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

My problem is it looks as a momentry shift before putting up the main window.
Could anyone have any idea?

Thanks
Neha

Re: SetWindowPos()

567890123421-Feb-02 0:55

5678901234

21-Feb-02 0:55

Override PreCreateWindow for main frame and set window position there.

Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:13

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:13

I wanted my window to be topmost so i used setwindowpos()..

Re: SetWindowPos()

567890123421-Feb-02 1:17

5678901234

21-Feb-02 1:17

This can be done from PreCreateWindow using CREATESTRUCT::dwExStyle, WS_EX_TOPMOST flag.

Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:28

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:28

Yes,You are right.i will try with that..

Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:35

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:35

Still it flickers..

Re: SetWindowPos()

Nish Nishant21-Feb-02 1:00

Nish Nishant

21-Feb-02 1:00

Replace

SetWindowPos(.....);
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

with

ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
SetWindowPos(.....);
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

Nish

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Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:14

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:14

I had tried that,still i get the same problem..

Re: SetWindowPos()

Fredrik Skog21-Feb-02 1:00

Fredrik Skog

21-Feb-02 1:00

Which flags are you using with SetWindowPos?
Either you use:

SetWindowPos(NULL, x, y, cx, cy, SWP_HIDEWINDOW | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE); 
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW)

MoveWindow(...)
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW)

SetWindowPos(NULL, x, y, cx, cy, SWP_SHOWWINDOW);

Cheers,

/Fredrik

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Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:16

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:16

I had used the first one with &wndtopmost as first parameter.

Neha

Re: SetWindowPos()

Fredrik Skog21-Feb-02 1:16

Fredrik Skog

21-Feb-02 1:16

I meant the nFlags parameter. If you supply SWP_SHOWWINDOW and then call ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) then you have two "show". My guess is that that is your problem. Have you tried the alternatives I suggested? Btw, with the third one, remove the ShowWindow call.

Cheers,

/Fredrik

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Re: SetWindowPos()

Neha21-Feb-02 1:25

Neha

21-Feb-02 1:25

I had written SWP_HIDEWINDOW inSetWindowPos().
Ok,I tried with SWP_SHOWWINDOW & no ShowWindow(SW_SHOW).
Still there is no change..

Re: SetWindowPos()

Fredrik Skog21-Feb-02 1:26

Fredrik Skog

21-Feb-02 1:26

It seems to work fine for me. Have you tried it the way Alex Farber described?

Cheers,

/Fredrik

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Re: SetWindowPos()

Mazdak21-Feb-02 2:16

Mazdak

21-Feb-02 2:16

Put this code in your OnCreate of MainFrame not PreCreate

SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost, 0, 0, 0, 0,  SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);
ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

Mazy

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OpenFileDialog in MFC

20-Feb-02 23:37

Hello,

I want to open a dialog box openfile but I don't know how to make it open always in the same directory (the directory where the .exe is), in a MFC project of course Smile | :)

Thanks.

Re: OpenFileDialog in MFC

Joaquín M López Muñoz21-Feb-02 0:40

Joaquín M López Muñoz

21-Feb-02 0:40

I guess you're using CFileDialog, right? If so, then between the construction of a CFileDialog (let's call it dlg) and the line to dlg.DoModal() set dlg.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir to the path of your exe. This path you can obtain with ::GetModuleFileName(NULL,...), stripping the .EXE file name out of the result (leaving then only the path, which is what you want).

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