Re: Handle vs Pointer - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

ShahShehpuri10-Oct-02 19:59

ShahShehpuri

10-Oct-02 19:59

Suppose many windows are open on your desktop. As such only one window is active which is in the front and has the current input focus. I call it active window while the others as inactive windows. Right !!!!

I want to create simple dialog box application. But i want my dialog box to appear as an "inactive" form, i.e when i run my application from Visual Studio, the dialog box appears in the back of Visual Studio Window and Visual studio Window not lose its focus. How can i do so ???

Re: Dialog Box focus

alex.barylski10-Oct-02 20:09

alex.barylski

10-Oct-02 20:09

ShahShehpuri wrote:
Suppose many windows are open on your desktop. As such only one window is active which is in the front and has the current input focus. I call it active window while the others as inactive windows. Right !!!!

AFAIK

ShahShehpuri wrote:
How can i do so ???

ShowWindow(SW_SHOWNA)

"MSDN: SW_SHOWNA Displays the window in its current state. The window that is currently active remains active"

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Re: Dialog Box focus

ShahShehpori10-Oct-02 20:38

ShahShehpori

10-Oct-02 20:38

Hockey wrote:
ShowWindow(SW_SHOWNA)

But at which place in dialog Application, i use this function ??? I used it in OnInitDialog(), but it didn't worked ???

Handle vs Pointer

stevenson10-Oct-02 17:24

stevenson

10-Oct-02 17:24

Hi,
I got a handle to a window, and want got a pointer to the windows object for further manipulation, how to do then? Example is welcomed.
Thanks

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

C^hris L^osinger10-Oct-02 17:49

C^hris L^osinger

10-Oct-02 17:49

you mean you want a CWnd from an HWND ? CWnd::Attach and CWnd::FromHandle might help.

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

stevenson10-Oct-02 18:18

stevenson

10-Oct-02 18:18

and how to use them, show me an example, plz.

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

stevenson10-Oct-02 18:24

stevenson

10-Oct-02 18:24

Look the code, it doesn't work

<br />
int CALLBACK MonitorCallback(HGLOBAL hBuf, int nLen, LPARAM lParam)<br />
{<br />
   LPBYTE lpBuf = (LPBYTE)::GlobalLock((HGLOBAL)hBuf);<br />
   if(!lpBuf)<br />
	return 1;<br />
<br />
   CString str=HexDump(lpBuf,nLen);<br />
   CEdit Edit;<br />
 <br />
   Edit.Attach((HWND)lParam);<br />
   CEdit *pEdit=(CEdit*)Edit.FromHandle((HWND)lParam);<br />
   pEdit->SetWindowText(str);<br />
   <br />
   return 0;<br />
 <br />
}

what's wrong???

Thanks in advance

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

Nish Nishant10-Oct-02 20:00

Nish Nishant

10-Oct-02 20:00

You have attached the HWND to the CEdit, so why do you then use FromHandle?

Edit.Attach(...)
Edit.SetWindowText(...)
Edit.Detach(...)

I think this should do it.

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

Michael Dunn10-Oct-02 20:04

Michael Dunn

10-Oct-02 20:04

CWnd* pEdit = CWnd::FromHandle ( (HWND) lParam );
pEdit->SetWindowText ( str );

Although you don't need to muck about with CWnds for such a simple task. Using the APIs would be simpler:

SetWindowText ( (HWND) lParam, str );

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Re: Handle vs Pointer

stevenson10-Oct-02 20:43

stevenson

10-Oct-02 20:43

This time I use a CListCtrl to accept data, this ListCtrl has three Columns for "No.", "Value" and "Time". its works well in my dialog, but after use Callback function to transfer ListCtrl Hanlde, the 2 subItems can't accept data, why?

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Changing the font of a CStatic

monrobot1310-Oct-02 17:22

monrobot13

10-Oct-02 17:22

Hello All,

Is there anymore than this that I need to do so that the font used to print on a CStatic control is changed?

CFont font;
font.CreatePointFont (80, _T("Times New Roman"));

CWnd* pPrices = GetDlgItem (STATIC_SHOW_ALL);
pPrices->SetFont (&font, TRUE);

STATIC_SHOW_ALL is the ID of my static control. When I write on the control now (using a member var that's attached to it) it changes the font from the default the dialog is using but not to the font I set it to. Any help is as always much appreciated.

- monrobot13

Re: Changing the font of a CStatic

Nish Nishant10-Oct-02 18:07

Nish Nishant

10-Oct-02 18:07

Your CFont object is a temporary stack object. Make it a class member.

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Re: Changing the font of a CStatic

monrobot1310-Oct-02 19:40

monrobot13

10-Oct-02 19:40

Works like a dream now. Thanks much.

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how to delete the margins when print with mfc

Anonymous10-Oct-02 16:58

Anonymous

10-Oct-02 16:58

When i priting,I always get a left and top margin,like printing a pixel on the left top corner:pDC->Pixel(0,0,RGB(0,0,0))
the result on the paper always get an offset.
I can get the physical offset of the printer,but how to change the offset,I tried SetViewportOrg,nothing changed!
any help?

int x = pDC->GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALOFFSETX);
int y = pDC->GetDeviceCaps( PHYSICALOFFSETY);
pDC->SetViewportOrg (-x,-y);

Re: how to delete the margins when print with mfc

Gary R. Wheeler11-Oct-02 16:39

Gary R. Wheeler

11-Oct-02 16:39

Most ink jet and laser printers can not print from edge to edge of the paper. They can usually print to within 0.25 inches of the edge. The limit may be less, depending upon which edge and the type of printer.

Gary R. Wheeler

Call dll from within an exe

DarrollWalsh10-Oct-02 16:53

DarrollWalsh

10-Oct-02 16:53

2 part question. How do you include a dll in an app that I can call from a seperate exe. Like the way you call the excel.exe file but it is used as a dll. Thanks for your help.

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Design pattern

stevenson10-Oct-02 15:06

stevenson

10-Oct-02 15:06

Hi,
where can i find the information on Design pattern ?

thanks

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Re: Design pattern

Christian Graus10-Oct-02 15:23

Christian Graus

10-Oct-02 15:23

In any books you might find on www.amazon.com that have the words 'design pattern' in them. I don't know of any websites really. safari.oreilly.com has some, and a 14 day free trial.

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Re: Design pattern

Anonymous10-Oct-02 17:09

Anonymous

10-Oct-02 17:09

Microsoft Press has a book on Design Pattern of Visual Basic programming call Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns. I remember they also have one for software developement, but I can't remember the name of it.

If you want a very high level overview of the software life cycle, many university uses R S Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practioner's Approach, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000 It's a pretty good book, but it won't tell you in technical details what is good code pratice and what is not. If you find a good book with good code examples in a large enough project, let me know!

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Re: Design pattern

Garth J Lancaster10-Oct-02 21:10

Garth J Lancaster

10-Oct-02 21:10

Ward Cunningham's WIKI site at : http://www.wiki.org[^]

has design pattern info. Or you could invest in the book written by the 'Gang of Four', Eric Gamma et al, mentioned somewhere within the Wiki - do a wiki search and you should find more details

Cheers, Garth

OOD Question: Data / GUI boundary

JennyP10-Oct-02 12:37

JennyP

10-Oct-02 12:37

Hello,

I'm writing a program that displays a list of tasks on a CListView report. The report view will have varying text color/font & item background colors depending on the context of each specific task (list item).

Where should I put the functions to determine these GUI parameters? In the document class or the CListView derived class? Should the document have functions that return the color of each specific list item? Or should the ListView make the determination based on gathering information about the Document tasks/items?

I suppose I could throw out the idea of modularity and just treat the GUI and the document as mutually dependent, but I believe that this would be poor design.

Does anyone have any pertinent wisdom about how to lay this out?

thanks!

JennyP

Re: OOD Question: Data / GUI boundary

Ed Gadziemski10-Oct-02 14:34

Ed Gadziemski

10-Oct-02 14:34

I would place the functions in the listview class since they alter listview behavior. If you place them in the document, you'll have to redesign (or replicate code) if you find you need additional document types in the future. Even if you don't need additional documents, you're more likely to find listview code samples on CodeProject, and that may save you some coding time.

Enable3DControls?

Henry P.10-Oct-02 12:07

Henry P.

10-Oct-02 12:07

Are there circumstances when calling Enable3DControls is necessary? I run Win2000 and it makes no difference whether this function is called during InitInstance. The MS doc says 3D controls are automatic on newer versions of Windows. Does that include Win95 and Up? The reason I ask is because adding this line of code adds 10-20 KB to your app (everything counts...lol)

Henry P.

Re: Enable3DControls?

Michael Dunn10-Oct-02 13:42

Michael Dunn

10-Oct-02 13:42

That call is only required if you plan on running on NT 3.51 Wink | ;)

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Re: Enable3DControls?

Henry P.10-Oct-02 14:06

Henry P.

10-Oct-02 14:06

WinNT 3.51 still exists?? lol...I think I'll get rid of that line. Thanks.

Henry P.

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