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Show popup menu not animated?

14-Aug-02 23:46

Shibu wrote:
In short how can i show a bitmap in a static frame with scrolling

You can't. You'll have to create your own window which supports loading images and scrolling.

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Attributes and MFC

paulb14-Aug-02 18:52

paulb

14-Aug-02 18:52

I was attempting to use ATL attributes in VS.NET in a MFC project (to hook to an event fired by a COM object) but in order to get it to compile had to include the [module(name="SomeName")] attribute. AFAIK this generates DllMain, DllRegisterServer, and whatnot code, but as an MFC app it already has a WinMain?! Well the app compiles and works, but I am wondering if this is correct or I am doing something wrong?

Dialog windows

Jason Hooper14-Aug-02 18:48

Jason Hooper

14-Aug-02 18:48

I have a small dialog window that is a child of my parent dialog. It has the topmost window style set so I can be doing things in other windows and have my small child window of my app still visible on top of everything. When I click on the title bar to move it around the screen, upon releasing the mouse button, the parent dialog box pops up to right under the child dialog. This isn't the behaviour I'm desiring (I'd like to be able to move the child window around without seeing the parent, but I'm not sure how to get around it, or what to do. Any ideas?

Also, i'm taking a plain dialog resource for it (no controls), and in my OnPaint function for that dialog, calling GetClientRect() and drawing right to that rect. Is this wise?

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Re: Dialog windows

DanielO15-Aug-02 0:37

DanielO

15-Aug-02 0:37

hu?

CParentDlg::ShowChild()
{
dialog dlg

ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)

if( dlg.DoModal()== IDOK)
{
//bla bla
}

ShowWindow(SW_SHOW)

-Drawing on that plain dlg that OnPaint (WM_DRAW) message should do no harm

Daniel O

Anonymous14-Aug-02 18:37

14-Aug-02 18:37

Can I create a popup menu (context menu) and make it apear at once, no animation.

Can I get the height of the created menu, I'd like to position it exatcly above a button?

Thanks for help!

Roman Fadeyev14-Aug-02 19:20

14-Aug-02 19:20

1) I think you can't. There is only one way to solve this problem - switch "menu effects" options off in Windows Settings. Of course, you can paint menu manually, but is it worthy of that efforts?

2) Point is that Windows can place popup menus in different directions relative to point that you indicated to menu. It depends on how close this menu is to bounds of screen. If you will adjust menu position manually, it may result a bug in some particular case

Anonymous14-Aug-02 19:23

14-Aug-02 19:23

Roman Fadeyev wrote:
1) I think you can't. There is only one way to solve this problem - switch "menu effects" options off in Windows Settings. Of course, you can paint menu manually, but is it worthy of that efforts?

I used BCMenu class, but any other ownerdraw menu works too. I need to figure out what makes it non sliding here on WIn9x, but at least it works.

void CBCDialogMenuDlg::OnButtonMenu() 
{
	BCMenu menu;						//create menu with bitmaps
	menu.LoadMenu(IDR_MYTYPE);
	BCMenu* pPopupMenu = (BCMenu*) menu.GetSubMenu(0);
	ASSERT(pPopupMenu != NULL);

    CRect rect;
	m_away.GetWindowRect(rect);

//	pPopupMenu->LoadToolbar(IDR_TOOLBAR_PROPERTY);	//load bitmaps for menu
	pPopupMenu->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, rect.left, rect.top, this);
}

Roman Fadeyev wrote:
2) Point is that Windows can place popup menus in different directions relative to point that you indicated to menu. It depends how close this menu is to bounds of screen. If you will adjust menu position manually, it may result a bug in some particular case

good point. I'll make sure my window is big enough to hold the menu over the button.

Roman Fadeyev14-Aug-02 19:39

14-Aug-02 19:39

When I said "paint menu manually" i indeed meant a ownerdraw menu. But remember that using of ownerdraw menus may lead to refusing from some Windows abilities as WinXP Themes and etc.

Somehow or other, we have found consensus Smile | :)

Anonymous14-Aug-02 20:45

14-Aug-02 20:45

well.. I tried a bit with CButtonST. I can at least meassure the height of the menu there. Some code.... not finsihed yet, but seems to work:

void BCMenu::GetClientRect(LPRECT lpRect)
{
	lpRect->left=0;
	lpRect->top=0;
	lpRect->bottom=0;
	lpRect->right=0;

	MEASUREITEMSTRUCT MIS;
	BCMenuData *mdata;
	UINT nID;

	int num = GetMenuItemCount();
	for(int i=num-1;i>=0;--i)
	{
		nID=GetMenuItemID(i);
		mdata=FindMenuList(nID);

		MIS.itemData = (DWORD) mdata;
		MeasureItem(&MIS);

		lpRect->bottom += MIS.itemHeight;
		if(MIS.itemWidth > (unsigned) lpRect->right) lpRect->right = MIS.itemWidth;
	}

	lpRect->bottom+=5;	//add some pixels for borders
}

PS: I have choosen ownerdraw menu because I like the possibility bitmaps in menus Smile | :)

Anonymous14-Aug-02 19:18

14-Aug-02 19:18

sliding is away, I used a onwerdraw menu.
Now I need to find out how to exactly position my menu... I think I will also figure that out now. thx Smile | :)

Michael Dunn14-Aug-02 19:43

Michael Dunn

14-Aug-02 19:43

Pass the TPM_NOANIMATION flag to TrackPopupMenu()

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Roman Fadeyev14-Aug-02 19:25

14-Aug-02 19:25

OK, good luck!

Anonymous14-Aug-02 19:53

14-Aug-02 19:53

'TPM_NOANIMATION' is not declared (MSDN mentions it though).
I run WinME here and can't find this text string in any *.h file (I scanned my harddisk for it)

Roman Fadeyev14-Aug-02 19:58

Re: Show popup menu not animated? (resume)

14-Aug-02 19:58

You can declare it yourself Smile | :)

TPM_VERNEGANIMATION=8192
TPM_NOANIMATION=16384

Anonymous14-Aug-02 21:09

Change the text of the tooltip

14-Aug-02 21:09

thx man!

But doesn't work on WinME.
Let me try compiling on XP.... yes, it works there.

#define	TPM_NOANIMATION 16384
pPopupMenu->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON | TPM_NOANIMATION, rect.left, rect.top, this);

In which file do you have this definition, I can't even find it on my XP computer? However, I will choose a ownerdraw menu, b/c it works for Win9x/XP. I need to patch some more at class BCMenu (see other post in this thread), but this control looks nice on both Win9x/XP.

thanks for help! I will feedback the author of BCMenu later.

Eugene Pustovoyt14-Aug-02 18:11

14-Aug-02 18:11

How to determine, that tooltip it will be displayed now, that it was possible to change his text. Confused | :confused:

Best regards,
Eugene Pustovoyt

Tomasz Sowinski14-Aug-02 23:27

14-Aug-02 23:27

What kind of tooltip it is? Do you have your own CToolTipCtrl object or it's the one mainained by MFC?

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Eugene Pustovoyt15-Aug-02 7:42

15-Aug-02 7:42

I would like to use CToolTipCtrl if such it is possible.
At me is the control similar to a grid and for each column and a line I need to draw the individual text.
What can you advise me?

Best regards,
Eugene Pustovoyt

Tomasz Sowinski15-Aug-02 7:50

15-Aug-02 7:50

Add your grid window to CToolTipCtrl tools with a call to CToolTipCtrl::AddTool. Then, in CYourWnd::OnMouseMove, check the mouse coordinates. If you need to show tooltip, call CToolTipCtrl::Activate(TRUE). Your window will receive TTN_NEEDTEXT notification.

Check this link for more details:

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0497/tooltip/tooltip.htm[^]

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Eugene Pustovoyt15-Aug-02 18:31

15-Aug-02 18:31

Yes but message TTN_NEEDTEXT is sent once for all control. That this message is sent second time to me it was necessary to leave a control and then again to go on him. Such approach bad.
How to force the message to be sent at change of a line and a column inside a control.

Best regards,
Eugene Pustovoyt

Tomasz Sowinski16-Aug-02 4:55

16-Aug-02 4:55

You need to check mouse cursor position in OnMouseMove. If you want to display tooltip, call m_tooltip.Activate(TRUE). If you want to turn off tooltip, call m_tooltip.Activate(FALSE). If you want to change the text of the tooltip, call Activate(FALSE), then Activate(TRUE).

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Eugene Pustovoyt16-Aug-02 5:43