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Re: Possible to use OCX from within a DLL???

Carlos Antollini11-Jul-01 10:19

Carlos Antollini

11-Jul-01 10:19

And with this in the initinstance?
AfxEnableControlContainer();

Carlos Antollini.

Re: Possible to use OCX from within a DLL???

DVryce12-Jul-01 2:49

DVryce

12-Jul-01 2:49

I am making sure to call AfxOleInit() and AfxEnableControlContainer() in my App's InitInstance. Then in the constructor for my dialog I create a new object of the ActiveX control type which I then call the Create() member on in the dialog's OnInitDialog() function. For some reason after the call to create the control object's HWND is still NULL. It keeps failing on an assertion error in "Winocc.cpp" which I think is a result of trying to call a method on this object with a NULL hwnd.

The error as reported by the VC++ debug window is as follows:

Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\OLE32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
CoCreateInstance of OLE control {B2D168E0-5597-101D-843A-DA16297B4C87} failed.
>>> Result code: 0x800401f0
>>> Is the control is properly registered?

I'm pretty sure the control is registered however as I ran a successful call to regsvr32 on it.

Re: Possible to use OCX from within a DLL???

DVryce12-Jul-01 4:11

DVryce

12-Jul-01 4:11

Just solved my own problem... The answer was to be found in some comments containing the code for the AfxOleInit() call. I had to calle OLEInitialize() before doing anything else in my app's InitInstance() and now it all works fine. Why calling
AfxOleInit() doesn't have the same affect is beyond me, but hey, that's just the way it works! Big Grin | :-D

Pl help:Windows Enumeration

sriram_mr11-Jul-01 9:46

sriram_mr

11-Jul-01 9:46

Hi All,
I want to implement sometihing like a task manager's
applications tab.So What did i do,
HWND hwndDesktop = GetDesktopWindow();
EnumChildWindows(hwndDesktop,EnumChildProc,NULL);
and stored the hwnd's in a list.But i get a lot of handles
like the program manager's etc .I just need the handles to the application windows .Also,How does one get the hwnd of the topmost window in the Z Order.Also,Is there an API like GetLastFocus() which returns me the hwnd of the window
that last had the focus.(I could store that in WM_SETFOCUS,
but what if an app does not have a window by itself but wants to do shifting of focus of other windows in the system.)
Thanx All for the help.
Sriram M R

Books about MFC

11-Jul-01 9:40

Can anybody recommend some good books about MFC? I have "Programming Windows with MFC" by J.Prosise so i'd like to take step forward in the areas which that book didnt cover like database and internet/network related programming etc. etc
Any suggestions??

Re: Books about MFC

Ben Burnett11-Jul-01 9:52

Ben Burnett

11-Jul-01 9:52

You should check out:

MFC Internals
The MFC Answer Book

I think there definite must haves.

-Ben

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Re: Books about MFC

Michael Dunn11-Jul-01 9:57

Michael Dunn

11-Jul-01 9:57

Mike Blaszczak's book Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6 is what I read when starting with MFC. (Actually I used the edition that came out for VC 4, but the VC 6 edition should cover the same stuff, with many new sections on features added since VC 4.)

--Mike--
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Push the button, Frank.

Re: Books about MFC

Christian Graus11-Jul-01 13:11

Christian Graus

11-Jul-01 13:11

Agreed on The MFC Answer Book. Do NOT buy 'MFC Extensions By Example', as a lot of the examples suck. For example, the MFC Answer Book correctly shows you how you can use SetWindowPos to make a dialog that resizes to show/hide some options, but 'Extensions by example' creates TWO dialogs to solve the same problem. Ech.

The other one I like is MFC Programming with Visual C++ Unleashed. It covers everything from databasing to ATL/COM to OpenGL.

Christian

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Hiding the caption bar's close box of a wizard.

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser11-Jul-01 9:30

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser

11-Jul-01 9:30

I have a wizard that I only want a title in the caption bar. I have turned off all the close box for each page of the wizard in the dialog properties box. The user should only be able to close the dialog by hitting the "Finished" button.

How can I hide the close button?

Thank.

Re: Hiding the caption bar's close box of a wizard.

Bret Faller11-Jul-01 13:44

Bret Faller

11-Jul-01 13:44

You can override PreCreateWindow() and in that function remove the WM_SYSMENU style:

BOOL CWizardDlg::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
cs.style ~= WM_SYSMENU;

return CWnd::PreCreateWindow(cs);
}

this will also remove the command menu to the left of the caption along with the minimize/maximize buttons.

Bret Faller
Odyssey Computing, Inc.

Re: Hiding the caption bar's close box of a wizard.

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser12-Jul-01 4:32

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser

12-Jul-01 4:32

Thank you...That what I wanted...Over and out.

Re: Hiding the caption bar's close box of a wizard.

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser12-Jul-01 7:52

C~~MFC6.0~~VS.NETUser

12-Jul-01 7:52

Hay what going up with my program. I let VC++ 6.0 Override PreCreateWindow() and then I inserted "cs.style &= ~ WM_SYSMENU;" in the body of PreCreateWindow(). I tried "cs.style ~= WM_SYSMENU;" but that wouldn't compile but "cs.style &= ~ WM_SYSMENU;" does. My problem is that I set a break point on the line I inserted and hit the debug button to run the program but my wizard was shown and the break point wasn't hit and the X box still there. Why isn't PreCreateWindow() being called?

simple polymorphism error

Jake Palmer11-Jul-01 9:21

Jake Palmer

11-Jul-01 9:21

I'm trying to write a function that performs some pretty natural polymorphism. It takes as a parameter a pointer to a base class object, then sets it to a new object of the subclass. In code:

void DoMorph(CBaseClass *foo)
{
foo = NULL;
foo = new CSubclass();
}
Is there an obvious reason this wouldn't compile, if CSubclass is derived from CBaseClass? I get this unexpected error:

'type cast' : conversion from 'class CSubclass *' to 'class CBaseClass *' exists, but is inaccessible.

thanks in advance,
Jake

Re: simple polymorphism error

Michael Dunn11-Jul-01 9:36

Michael Dunn

11-Jul-01 9:36

Check your inheritance list in CSubclass. From MSDN --

Compiler Error C2243
'conversion type' conversion from 'type1' to 'type2' exists, but is inaccessible

A pointer to a derived class was converted to a pointer to a base class, but the derived class inherited the base class with private or protected access.

The following is an example of this error:

class B {};
class D : private B {};

D d;
B *p = &d; // error

--Mike--
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Re: simple polymorphism error

Jake Palmer11-Jul-01 11:01

Jake Palmer

11-Jul-01 11:01

Thanks for making me doublecheck that - I knew it was something obvious, but I didn't realize it was THAT obvious. I forgot the word "public". Ok, thanks.

ATL (BSTR) to VB

Dan Madden11-Jul-01 9:19

Dan Madden

11-Jul-01 9:19

I have a DLL that when I use it in VBS it works fine everytime...but when I use VB, it works the first time, but the second call returns TRASH. Can anyone explain why?? Here is a code snippet:

STDMETHODIMP CSetShare::get_pNetDiskEnum(BSTR sServer, BSTR *pVal)
{
// NetserverDiskEnum Function to
// Enumerate list of remote Server Drive Letters.

const int ENTRY_SIZE = 3; // Drive letter, colon, NULL
LPTSTR pBuf = NULL;
DWORD dwLevel = 0; // level must be zero
DWORD dwPrefMaxLen = -1;
DWORD dwEntriesRead = 0;
DWORD dwTotalEntries = 0;
NET_API_STATUS nStatus;
CComBSTR cstr1;

//
// Call the NetServerDiskEnum function.
//
nStatus = NetServerDiskEnum((LPSTR)sServer,
dwLevel,
(LPBYTE *) &pBuf,
dwPrefMaxLen,
&dwEntriesRead,
&dwTotalEntries,
NULL);
//
// If the call succeeds,
//
if (nStatus == NERR_Success)
{
LPTSTR pTmpBuf;
if ((pTmpBuf = pBuf) != NULL)
{
DWORD i;
DWORD dwTotalCount = 0;
//
// Loop through the entries.
//
for (i = 0; i < dwEntriesRead; i++)
{
assert(pTmpBuf != NULL);

if (pTmpBuf == NULL)
{
// On a remote computer, only members of the
// Administrators or the Account Operators
// local group can execute NetServerDiskEnum.
//

break;
}
//
// Print drive letter for each drive;
// the number of entries actually enumerated; and
// the total number of entries available.
//

cstr1 += pTmpBuf;
pTmpBuf += ENTRY_SIZE;
dwTotalCount++;

}
cstr1 += pTmpBuf;
}
}
else
cstr1 = "System Error: No Such Machine";

if (pBuf != NULL) // Free the allocated buffer.
NetApiBufferFree(pBuf);

*pVal = (BSTR)cstr1; // Conversion to BSTR Type for VB

return S_OK;

}

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Re: ATL (BSTR) to VB

Michael Dunn11-Jul-01 9:32

Michael Dunn

11-Jul-01 9:32

*pVal = (BSTR)cstr1;

There's your problem right there. cstr1 is a local variable. Change it to

*pVal = cstr1.Detach();

--Mike--
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Push the button, Frank.

Re: ATL (BSTR) to VB

Dan Madden11-Jul-01 10:17

Dan Madden

11-Jul-01 10:17

Thanks Michal, it is bed time in this part of the world...I will test this first thing in the morning, and thanks for the quick response!

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Capturing DOS output

11-Jul-01 9:09

I have written a nice IDE for a language that I have created. The only problem I have is that when I compile it does it all through DOS. Is there a way I can capture that ouput kthe way Visual Sutdio does and show the compilation in a window? Smile | :)

Re: Capturing DOS output

Ben Burnett11-Jul-01 10:19

Ben Burnett

11-Jul-01 10:19

Doing this is actually fairly simple; all you have to do is redirect the processes STDOUT. You can do this by creating an anonymous pipe and using the handles that are returned in a call to CreateProcess. You can then use regular file factions to read the output out of the 'read' handle.

I have some code that will do this, let me know if you'd like a copy.

-Ben

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Registering file types that aren't doc/view types

11-Jul-01 7:53

Here’s my scenario: I have an application that can save/load project files. I want to be able to register the icon and file extension (*.kkp) with the system so that you can open them directly from within Explorer, and have my app load, but not try to load the project as a document. Instead, I need to be able to detect the file is a project file and then handle it myself.

I know this is possible – I even managed to do it in a previous app I was working on, but now I can’t remember how to do it. Can anybody help?

Yours,

Peter

Windows 2000 using WTL

Lilian Chan-Grant11-Jul-01 6:58

Lilian Chan-Grant

11-Jul-01 6:58

I'd appreciate ANY assistance here -
My task involves displaying file properties for files my application creates. I need to figure out how to persist the data in such a way that Windows Explorer could get it (via third mouse click, Properties). I am so lost on this project, so imagine a rather stupid 10 year old trying to do this.

Thanks, Confused | :confused:

Lilian

Re: Windows 2000 using WTL

Michael Dunn11-Jul-01 7:20

Michael Dunn

11-Jul-01 7:20

Are you asking how to add your own stuff to the Properties dialog? Check out my article on that subject. Smile | :)

--Mike--
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Re: Windows 2000 using WTL

Lilian Chan-Grant11-Jul-01 8:15

Lilian Chan-Grant

11-Jul-01 8:15

Thank you SO much. I REALLY appreciate your reply. Big Grin | :-D

You don't know how much of a weight you lifted off these shoulders.

Thanks,

Lilian

CString parsing

RobJones11-Jul-01 6:42

RobJones

11-Jul-01 6:42

I'm sure glad this fourm exists.. Smile | :)

Im trying to parse a string for "11" and put the value into a int.. here what I have so far..

CString strPDT;
strPDT = "<p>At the tone, the time will be... < b>Wednesday, Jul 11, 2001 07:57:09 PDT< /b>";

int nIndex, nFirstIndex, nSecondIndex;
nIndex = strPDT.Find(_T("tone"));
nFirstIndex = strPDT.Find("< b>", nMyIndex);
nSecondIndex = strPDT.Find(",", nFirstIndex+1); // I would like to find the 3rd "," -- how?
strPDTDays = strPDT.Mid(nFirstIndex+1, nSecondIndex-FirstIndexPDT-1);
int iPDTDays = atoi(strPDTDays);
int iPDTD = iPDTDays;

I know this code isn't correct but it gives you a idea of what I'm trying to do... can someone post some code that would find "11".

Thanks again,

Rob Jones

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