Re: add colors to buttons - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Re: Running a console app hidden, no window

Gunn3174-Jan-06 3:45

4-Jan-06 3:45

Thanks guys; this was the solution I was looking for. The other options showed the console window briefly; which was still undesirable. Thanks!

Re: Running a console app hidden, no window

vipinasda24-Dec-05 7:16

vipinasda

24-Dec-05 7:16

How about try this?
Q124103: "HOWTO: Obtain a Console Window Handle (HWND)"

and then in the main(), do a ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

HWND GetConsoleHwnd(void)
{
#define MY_BUFSIZE 1024 // Buffer size for console window titles.
HWND hwndFound; // This is what is returned to the caller.
char pszNewWindowTitle[MY_BUFSIZE]; // Contains fabricated
// WindowTitle.
char pszOldWindowTitle[MY_BUFSIZE]; // Contains original
// WindowTitle.

// Fetch current window title.

GetConsoleTitle(pszOldWindowTitle, MY_BUFSIZE);

// Format a "unique" NewWindowTitle.

wsprintf(pszNewWindowTitle,"%d/%d",
GetTickCount(),
GetCurrentProcessId());

// Change current window title.

SetConsoleTitle(pszNewWindowTitle);

// Ensure window title has been updated.

Sleep(40);

// Look for NewWindowTitle.

hwndFound=FindWindow(NULL, pszNewWindowTitle);

// Restore original window title.

SetConsoleTitle(pszOldWindowTitle);

return(hwndFound);
}

main()
{
ShowWindow(GetConsoleHwnd() , SW_HIDE);
while(1)
Sleep(10000);
}

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Re: Running a console app hidden, no window

Owner drawn26-Dec-05 17:27

Owner drawn

26-Dec-05 17:27

See this...

http://www.codeproject.com/win32/runsilent.asp[^]

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Analyze sound volume?

Matrim Cauthon23-Dec-05 3:03

Matrim Cauthon

23-Dec-05 3:03

Hello,

I want to monitor the volume of my sound. I don't
ask for a complete analyzer, I just want to measure
the "amount of loudness".

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,
Mat.

add colors to buttons

Manmohan_198323-Dec-05 2:58

Manmohan_1983

23-Dec-05 2:58

How can i add color to buttons in the dialog box

Thank u in advance

Re: add colors to buttons

FarPointer23-Dec-05 3:57

FarPointer

23-Dec-05 3:57

HI ,
you need to make ownerdraw buttons and capture the WM_DRAWITEM Were you can set the SetBkColor() etc ........

Regards
FarPointer

Re: add colors to buttons

Manmohan_198325-Dec-05 18:21

Manmohan_1983

25-Dec-05 18:21

Hi,
I call this function: SetBkColor(RGB(255,255,255)); in WM_DRAWITEM , But i dont find the result.
Plz help me.
Thank u

Re: add colors to buttons

FarPointer25-Dec-05 20:28

FarPointer

25-Dec-05 20:28

Make those buttons owner draw buttons and trap the WM_DRAWITEM

in your constructor <br />
CBrush brush1;<br />
 brush1.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(0,0,255)); <br />
Hope this solves your problem<br />
<br />
<br />
opps !!!!!!! Add this <br />
<code>/*HBRUSH CMy23Dlg::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor) <br />
{<br />
	HBRUSH hbr = CDialog::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor);<br />
	<br />
	if( nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_BTN )<br />
	{<br />
		<br />
		return brush1;<br />
	}<br />
	return hbr;<br />
}

Regards
FarPointer

-- modified at 2:36 Monday 26th December, 2005

Re: add colors to buttons

ThatsAlok25-Dec-05 21:03

ThatsAlok

25-Dec-05 21:03

Manmohan_1983 wrote:
I call this function: SetBkColor(RGB(255,255,255)); in WM_DRAWITEM

what about this section http://www.codeproject.com/buttonctrl/[^]

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unsigned char

Smith#23-Dec-05 0:36

Smith#

23-Dec-05 0:36

what's the use of unsigned char? if char is going to be characters?? -a , +a ??
and also tell me who to display it in an AfxMessageBox Frown | :(

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Re: unsigned char

Russell^'23-Dec-05 0:52

Russell^'

23-Dec-05 0:52

You can use unsigned char (for example) to read single byte from file without re-interpreter it as integer (positive or negative values).
But, In typical programs, the use is quite the same.

To use the AfxMessageBox you can use it in the same way of the char.
But your question is strange:
the string is build with caratchars and they are translated in a defined numerical range: so if you want to display strange values (like 190) you will obtain only strange sign!!

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Re: unsigned char

toxcct23-Dec-05 2:18

toxcct

23-Dec-05 2:18

char is quite bad named because its name confuses too much the newbies.
of course, char goes to be used in strings, but first, that's not always true, and secondly, it does not serves only for that.

char in C/C++ is simply a signed byte, not more, not less. that means it can be used as a character (in strings), but also as an integer of 8 bits, or as a simple 8 bits array.

about the signature, yes, a char is by default signed, which means it contains values between [-128 ; +127].

but usually, the mainly used characters in the ascii tables are under the code 127 (over that, they are called extended char sets).
if you want more than that, you'll have to use UNICODE instead of ASCII, which stores a character on 16 bits instead...

to display a char string, simply use the "" notation, ,and the compiler will format your variable as needed ('\0' terminated)...

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Re: unsigned char

Nemanja Trifunovic24-Dec-05 10:09

Nemanja Trifunovic

24-Dec-05 10:09

toxcct wrote:
char in C/C++ is simply a signed byte, not more, not less

It is simply a byte, but it can be signed or unsigned - it is left to compiler implementations to decide. For instance with VC++, char is signed by default unless the option /J is specified.

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-- modified at 16:10 Saturday 24th December, 2005

Re: unsigned char

segment_fault3-Jan-06 18:02

segment_fault

3-Jan-06 18:02

I'd suggesting creating a typdef as follows:

typedef unsigned char to BYTE;

BYTE's are pretty useful in walking through raw data streams, manipulating graphics by having to twiddle the bits of various pixels, etc.

Read more of what I have to say at http://directx9.blogspot.com/

To Delete Objects created by IMPLEMENT_DYNACREATE

birajendu22-Dec-05 23:38

birajendu

22-Dec-05 23:38

hi....
I would like to Destroy MainFrame object Created by IMPLEMENT_DYNACREATE macro.coz, it gives memory leak when i close my apllecatin window.

plz...help he...how i colud do for this...

birajendu
CyberG India
Delhi
India

Re: To Delete Objects created by IMPLEMENT_DYNACREATE

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟24-Dec-05 9:28

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

24-Dec-05 9:28

It deletes itself automatically after the window is destroyed. Check if you stopped your message pump prematurely.

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RGBQUAD in Bitmap Class

vikas amin22-Dec-05 23:29

vikas amin

22-Dec-05 23:29

I am creating a class for Bitmap.

I want to have detials regarding the RGBQUAD
which specifies the colors used in the bmp file

Cool | :cool:

Vikas Amin
Embin Technology
Bombay
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Re: RGBQUAD in Bitmap Class

toxcct22-Dec-05 23:46

toxcct

22-Dec-05 23:46

why reinventing the wheel ??

BITMAP structures already exist.

moreover, what is supposed to be the "quad" part of the name ?
RGB stands for red-green-blue ; quad is for...?

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Re: RGBQUAD in Bitmap Class

Russell^'22-Dec-05 23:56

Russell^'

22-Dec-05 23:56

Hope this helps.
http://www.priyank.in/docs/bmp.php[^]

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Re: RGBQUAD in Bitmap Class

Amal P23-Dec-05 0:23

Amal P

23-Dec-05 0:23

Hi,

Usually we creates the bitmap info directly from BITMAPINFO structure. But you can derive another structure from it. Then you will have access to RGBQUAD values. For knowing how to derive a structure from BITMAPINFO see the below code.

struct DIBINFO : public BITMAPINFO
{
RGBQUAD arColors[255]; // Adds an extra 255 entries to palette

operator LPBITMAPINFO() { return (LPBITMAPINFO) this; }
operator LPBITMAPINFOHEADER() { return &bmiHeader; }
RGBQUAD* ColorTable() { return bmiColors; }
};

Now instead of creating a Bitmap Info object of BITMAPINFO structure create it using DIBINFO structure. It is just simple as,

DIBINFO m_bitmapInfo;

Now you can change the RGBQUAD palette by changing the values in the arColors of the bitmap. For example here i am changing the palette to a gray scale one by filling same values at Blue, Green and Red.

for(int i = 0; i < 255; i++)
{
m_bitmapInfo.arColors[i].rgbBlue = i;
m_bitmapInfo.arColors[i].rgbGreen = i;
m_bitmapInfo.arColors[i].rgbRed = i;
m_bitmapInfo.arColors[i].rgbReserved = i;
}

There is another reserved member. It may be used in some other cases as Alpha. Normaly when you tell the color of a pixel you will specify 4 values.

They are,
1. Value of Red.
2. Value of Green.
3. Value of Blue.
4. Value of Alpha.
The alpha can be considered as the transparency.

Now while creating a bitmap pass the bitmap info as m_bitmapInfo. It will do the trick.

Thanks and Regards,
Amal P.

#if

Smith#22-Dec-05 22:54

Smith#

22-Dec-05 22:54

"As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. A macro SYSTEM is set (by OS) to type of system so check for this: "

#if SYSTEM == MSDOS
#include <msdos.h>
#else
#include ``default.h''
#endif

--------------------
but how the value of "MSDOS" is obtained??

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Re: #if

Owner drawn22-Dec-05 23:10

Owner drawn

22-Dec-05 23:10

Rokiee wrote:
but how the value of "MSDOS" is obtained??

Try this

printf("MSDOS = %d", MSDOS);

Hope this is what you meant... Sniff | :^)

Re: #if

Smith#22-Dec-05 23:37

Smith#

22-Dec-05 23:37

sorry, i asked it wrong. i want to know like,
eg:
if(x==3)
{
//
}
else
{

}

here if only we know the value of 'x' we can check it right?? so i mean how do u get the value for "SYSTEM".? is it set somewhere out of the program??

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Re: #if

toxcct22-Dec-05 23:18

toxcct

22-Dec-05 23:18

Rokiee wrote:
but how the value of "MSDOS" is obtained??

you mean, how to set SYSTEM macro with MSDOS value ?
like this :

#define SYSTEM MSDOS

otherwise, if you want to actually test for the real Operating System to know if the program is running under DOS or not, you won't be able to do this at preprocessing time.
it is only at run time you will get the OS version and to one or one action...

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Re: #if

Smith#22-Dec-05 23:40

Smith#

22-Dec-05 23:40

please refer my replies. above and below

regards,
Rookie
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