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I saw a project the other day that colored the
background of an aboutBox up to the faint blue
lines in the resource editor. How do you do that?
I can use OnCtrColor to color the background, but
it colors everything. How can I make the background
white up to the light blue lines, then a grey
edge and a border?
Please, any response any one can give me will be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Danielle (an overworked graduate student)
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Do you have an example by chance? I just
want a simple white background color filled
in up to the faint blue lines in the dialog
resource.
Please, please, please, please, please,
please, please, please, please, please,
please, please, any response, any code you
can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Danielle (an overworked graduate student)
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Just FYI, the blue guidelines have no meaning outside of the resource editor. In painting code you deal with pixels.
Here's a very simple OnEraseBkgnd() to try out
BOOL CSomeWnd::OnEraseBkgnd( CDC* pDC )
{
CRect rc;
GetClientRect ( rc );
pDC->FillSolidRect ( rc, GetSysColor(COLOR_3DFACE) );
rc.DeflateRect ( 7, 7 );
pDC->FillSolidRect ( rc, RGB(255,255,255) );
return TRUE;
}
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i want to call different views of the images through OnDraw function.from the menu.please explain me clearly.
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eng_raju@rediffmail.com wrote:
please explain me clearly.
Well, it would help if your quesion was clear. You're writing an imaging app ? You don't know how to use a menu, or you don't know how to use OnDraw, or you don't know how to create an enum or a range of const int's ?
Christian
come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
You don't know how to use a menu, or you don't know how to use OnDraw, or you don't know how to create an enum or a range of const int's ?
Or could it be all.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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Which of these three designs would you choose? #2 is a piece of cake. #1 and #3 I am exploring and have the following questions:
1.I've a bunch of options that I will append dynamically as submenus to a top level menu item. Thats doable. Then I want to keep track of which options were selected (setcheck), so that from my long list I now have a subset. Whats the smart way of going about this? I cant very well write handlers or sendmessage on the fly for every item selected in order to add its value to my subset . Like under Color, I have red, green , blue etc. The user selects say five colors. What I want from all this is merely a list of the options that were selected. These menu items dont do anything, except somehow magically add their values to the growing list. Is this reallly simple and I just cant see it?
2.Or should I spawn a modal dialog with a listcontrol with checkboxes instead.(No problem here!)
3.Actually a cool idea suggested was when Color is pressed, a hidden listcontrol shows up (obscuring stuff under it) with the possible options. When you click off it, it vanishes. This listcontrol actually exists on the CFormView but doesnt get shown until the Color button is pressed, and then its supposed to cover up a bunch of other controls also on the CFormView. I have yet to explore this avenue - I can set the listctrl invisible from the properties window easily enough. SO I just have to do something to show it when Color is pressed. MAybe theres a .visible(TRUE) type thing. Anyhoo then I have to utilise a lostfocus type event I suppose, to make it vanish.
Thank you if you've read this long post, and I'd appreciate any feedback,
ns
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I gather you delete (this) in PostNcDestroy();
Fine .
I have a button which spawns a modeless dlg when you click, and two and three....
Since I am using the same
CModeless * pdlg = new CModeless; for each modeless dlg spawned, the old pdlg gets overwritten when another new gets called on it. So I have three modeless floating around. I click the right hand cross, and PostNcDestroy deletes "this", for any one random modeless dlg. How does this affect the other two pdlg pointers that were created when the new for those two was called?
Thanks for clearing this up,
ns
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Unless you've got a good reason for keeping track of the spawned dialog in pdlg you actually needn't do it. As the dialogs take care of themselves by calling delete this on post-destroy time, you can safely let them live their live, and launch them this way:
new CModeless; On the other hand, if you keep your code as is, everything will work OK nevertheless --rewriting the value stored at pdlg does not affect in any manner to the dialogs previously created.
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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Joaquín,
It's always a better idea to keep track of dialogs that you created! It would not be
nice to have "multiple" or being able to create "hundreds" of the same dialog just because they are not visible on taskbar or not on top, and the user will lose focus on
number of this dialog that he created. This is just to say that it's always better to
keep track of them.
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I raised this with Nish when he posted the article. You need to store your pointers into a vector or ( heaven forbid ) a CArray, so you have them all. Otherwise, you have dangling pointers, and your UI no longer has any control over the dialogs it created.
Christian
come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002
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I am going to use the registry saving stuff because when my app starts, the main screen shows up with no data in it (but configured with settings previously saved by user), the app is supposed to go check the registry, and if it finds a database name stored there, things progress, but if not, a CFIleDialog Open pops up. So I gather I''ll be using:
RegQueryValue and RegSetValue.
Have to set stuff when leaving. Which two places does one save and retrieve from? Which class and which event?
I dont have a feel for this yet.
thanks,
ns
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Hmmmm, perhaps in your BOOL CWinAppDerived::InitInstance(), just before the creation of the CMainFrame window.
Or if you actually want the window up before you read the values, then put them in CMainFrame::OnCreate after all the stuff that's already put there by the App wizard
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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Appreciate the info. I'll try it as soon as I figure out what stuff it is that I actually need to save ...something like app size configured by the user, and other details like location on the screen I suppose.Thanks again,
ns
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I have:
void CTrain1Doc::OnSelectdatabase()
{
//CFileDialog fileDlg( TRUE, NULL, NULL, OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT | OFN_HIDEREADONLY, "All Files (*.*)|*.*||", this);
CFileDialog fileDlg(TRUE, NULL, NULL, OFN_HIDEREADONLY|OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST, "Database Files(*.bmp)|*.bmp||",NULL);
}
The commented out line was the way I saw it in a codeproject sample. But my compiler said it needed a Cwnd* in parameter 6, not a doc *, so I made it NULL. Is this ok? Are there any dangers of saying the parent is NULL?
TIA,
ns
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What is in the Exit Command handler? Not EndDialog right? THis is an MDI project. I didnt want to use the standard exit provided in the default menu...
Which class shall I associate this Exit item with? View? Doc? or MAinFrame?
Thanks,
ns
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What exactly do you want to do with the Menu-Exit handler? The Menu-File-Exit basically posts a WM_CLOSE to the main frame window. So if you want to prompt the user and ask her whether she wants to quit, override WM_CLOSE in your main frame window!
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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Okay!
That sounds great! Appreciate it,
ns
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Do I say DestroyWindow() in the mainframe::onclose()?
Thanks,
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Nishant S wrote:
("Sure?","?",
Short. Adn to the point. I like it.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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If you look up the ID for that menu handler ID_APP_EXIT on MSDN you will find the answer. It contains a short explanation how many standard menu commands are implemented.
ID_APP_EXIT: Exit the application.
CWinApp::OnAppExit handles this command by sending a WM_CLOSE message to the application's main window. The standard shutting down of the application (prompting for dirty files and so on) is handled by the CFrameWnd implementation.
Customization of this command handler is not recommended. Overriding CWinApp::SaveAllModified or the CFrameWnd closing logic is recommended.
If you choose to implement this command, we recommend you use this command ID.
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