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Hi there:
I am willing to learn how to write a custom pure API control (something simple for a start: e.g. equivalent of CStatic).
Could you give me an idea where to start or where to get more information on these kind of things?
Thank you.
A reasonable man adapts himself to the world. An unreasonable one persists, trying to adapt the world to himself. That is why all the progress in the world depends on the unreasonable men.
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You will need to look at RegisterClass in order to create a window class that can be used to create your window. CreateWindow in order to create an instance of your custom class. Windows procedures in order to apply the functionality that you need.
If you would like to build your custom control on top of an existing windows control, you could also look up window subclassing.
Good Luck
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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What I am looking for is to avoid using MFC completely.
Can you be a little bit more elaborate, or even better, refer me to a specific example? Thanks.
A reasonable man adapts himself to the world. An unreasonable one persists, trying to adapt the world to himself. That is why all the progress in the world depends on the unreasonable men.
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All of those functions that I mentioned previously are from the Win32 API. So you will not need to use MFC with those functions.
Creating a custom control is not much different than creating an application window for a raw Win32 application. One of the only differences is when you create your control, you create it as a child of another window.
Try creating a new Win32 Windows Application project in VC++. It will generate a set of basic code to create the application window. It shows how to use the functions that I mentioned, RegisterClass, CreateWindow, and the WindowProc.
You should be able to adapt the window class that they create into the control that you would like to create. Simply modify the styles, and add the functionality that you would like to provide in the WindowProc procedure to handle the windows messages the way that you want.
I am sorry that I do not have a more concrete example on hand.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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How can I create an MDI application with Win32 API?
A reasonable man adapts himself to the world. An unreasonable one persists, trying to adapt the world to himself. That is why all the progress in the world depends on the unreasonable men.
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Once you have created the window that you will be using as the frame for your application, call CreateMDIWindow as a child of your main window. Then the windows that you create as a child of this MDI window will become MDI children.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Yes, but according to MSDN, for Multi-threaded apps, one should use CreateWindowEx. Since this is similar to CWnd::CreateEx, I just added WS_EX_MDICHILD to ExStyle but got the same result (the child window's title bar doesn't change color to signify activation; clicking on the icon, instead of Ctrl+F4 for Close, its still Alt+F4; & using Spy++, the child windows don't have the WS_EX_MDICHILD exstyle; adding the exstyle by ModifyStyleEx doesn't change a thing.
solutions?
Tnx 
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There are Win32 app examples in the Windows SDK.
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Just wondered how many people out there program not for a job, but because they want to.
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When Your Mind Wonders...Where Does It Go???
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I think this would be a hot topic if you post in lounge.;)
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The Eclypse wrote:
Just wondered how many people out there program not for a job, but because they want to.
Me.
Mazy
"The more I search, the more my need
For you,
The more I bless, the more I bleed
For you."The Outlaw Torn-Metallica
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I do both - as a job, AND because I want to.
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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Pure hobby... for now 
Cheers!
Marc
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I do both, but I couldn't see doing anything else as a job. I love programming.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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I love programming as a hobby, and am currently looking to do it as a job. I have just finished uni see and getting that first job is harder than I thought.....
Alan.
"When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master" - Darth Vader
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I've created a resizable MFC dialog and when resizing (WM_SIZING) the contents don't appear in their places at all. In fact, everything becomes a gray resizing rectangle. When the operation is done, the stuff comes up as it should allways be.
Do you know how to make the toys visible all the time?
rechi
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I think, calling the all Child controls Invalidate and Update will do it!
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How can I alter the width of a treelist or treeview control header dynamically on the fly. I tried the following but it doesn't seem to work.
void CAdjustHeaderColumns::AdjustColumnTreeWidth(int mColns, CString mCName, CNewTreeListCtrl &mtree)
{
CRegKey reg;
CString g_registry;
g_registry.Format("%s%s", REG_ROOTDIR, COLDIR);
CNewTreeListCtrl* pTreeHeader = (CNewTreeListCtrl*) mtree.GetDlgItem(0);
ASSERT(pTreeHeader);
CString mWidth;
CString mDWidth;
LV_COLUMN lvc;
lvc.mask = LVCF_WIDTH;
//Get the Column info and fill the HDITEM structure
HDITEM hdi;
hdi.mask = HDI_WIDTH;
for (int i = 0; i < mColns; i++)
{
pTreeHeader->GetItem(i, &hdi)
m_dwdth.Format("%sHDW%d", mCName, i);
m_wdth.Format("%sHW%d", mCName, i);
if (reg.Open(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, g_registry) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
reg.Read(m_dwdth, mDWidth);
reg.Read(m_wdth, mWidth);
}
if (mWidth.IsEmpty() || mWidth == "0")
mWidth = mDWidth;
if (mWidth != mDWidth)
{
TRACE("[%d] is width", atoi(mWidth) );
hdi.cxy = atoi(mWidth);
pTreeHeader->SetItem(i, &hdi);
}
}
}
Thank-you
Sincerely,
RAH
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I'm writing an MDI app and I'm having trouble getting File->New to create _MY_ Doc/View, not the generic blank CDocument/CView. I had this working and somehow I broke it and I'm stumped as to why. I've researched, compared code, etc.
In my InitInstance() I have:
<br />
CMultiDocTemplate *pDocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(<br />
IDR_TEXTTYPE,<br />
RUNTIME_CLASS(MEditDoc),<br />
RUNTIME_CLASS(CMDIChildWnd),<br />
RUNTIME_CLASS(MEditView)<br />
);<br />
AddDocTemplate(pDocTemplate);<br />
<br />
MMainFrame *pMainFrame = new MMainFrame;<br />
if (!pMainFrame->LoadFrame(IDR_MAINFRAME)) return(FALSE);<br />
<br />
m_pMainWnd = pMainFrame;<br />
<br />
pMainFrame->ShowWindow(m_nCmdShow);<br />
pMainFrame->UpdateWindow();<br />
I have the ID_FILE_NEW message handled by my MMainFrame class. I also tried having it handled by my MApp class, but no change. The handler looks like:
<br />
void MMainFrame::OnFileNew() {<br />
CMDIChildWnd *pChildFrame = new CMDIChildWnd;<br />
<br />
LPCTSTR lpszEditClass = AfxRegisterWndClass(CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW,<br />
LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW), (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1), NULL);<br />
<br />
pChildFrame->Create(lpszEditClass, _T("Edit"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,<br />
rectDefault, this);<br />
}<br />
Any ideas?
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I have a project where debugging is checked under Link, I am bulging the debug version, and i'm ising the Microsoft format for debug info. Still, when my program crashes, it doesn't have any symbols, function names or line numbers.
Is there something I can do to fix it?
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Make sure "C++->General->Debug Info:" and
"Link->Debug->Debug Info" also are correct.
/Magnus
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this is a dumb question, but I am lost totally. 
I have make a *.chm file using Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, and now I want to display it in my SDI application when user click on menu item Help -> Help Topics... so in my CMainFrame, I add the function:
void CMainFrame::OnHelpTopics()
and in its body, I add
AfxGetApp()->HtmlHelp(NULL, HH_HELP_TOPIC);
But when I tried to compile it, I was told that HtmlHelp is not a function of CWinApp. How come? it's a member function according to MSDN. Did I miss anything?
Anybody please help me!
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Are you using VC6? HtmlHelp isn't available for VC6 from CWinApp.
Tim Smith
I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Ah, yes, I am using VC6. I succeed using WinHelp to display the *.hlp file, but I think the style is not so nice as the *.chm one. Is there any way I can do it? Or I have to switch to VC7?
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void CMainFrame::WinHelp(DWORD dwData, UINT nCmd)
{
CWinApp* pApp = AfxGetApp();
ASSERT_VALID(pApp);
ASSERT(pApp->m_pszHelpFilePath != NULL);
CWaitCursor wait;
if (IsFrameWnd())
{
CFrameWnd* pFrameWnd = (CFrameWnd*)this;
pFrameWnd->ExitHelpMode();
}
SendMessage(WM_CANCELMODE);
SendMessageToDescendants(WM_CANCELMODE, 0, 0, TRUE, TRUE);
CWnd* pWnd = GetTopLevelParent();
pWnd->SendMessage(WM_CANCELMODE);
pWnd->SendMessageToDescendants(WM_CANCELMODE, 0, 0, TRUE, TRUE);
HWND hWndCapture = ::GetCapture();
if (hWndCapture != NULL)
::SendMessage(hWndCapture, WM_CANCELMODE, 0, 0);
TRACE0("*** HtmlHelp(");
DWORD dwHtmlData = 0;
UINT nHtmlCmd;
switch (nCmd)
{
case HELP_CONTEXT:
TRACE0("Context");
nHtmlCmd = HH_HELP_CONTEXT;
dwHtmlData = dwData;
break;
case HELP_CONTENTS:
TRACE0("TOC");
nHtmlCmd = HH_DISPLAY_TOC;
break;
default:
TRACE0("other");
nHtmlCmd = HH_DISPLAY_TOC;
}
CString strHelpFile = ...;
TRACE("): %s %x %d (wh:%d)\n", strHelpFile, dwHtmlData, nHtmlCmd, nCmd);
if (NULL == ::HtmlHelp(m_hWnd, strHelpFile, nHtmlCmd, dwHtmlData))
{
AfxMessageBox(AFX_IDP_FAILED_TO_LAUNCH_HELP);
}
}
Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
- It's for protection
- Protection from what? Zee Germans?
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