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Re: How to show a window in full screen? Maer72723-Aug-01 18:29 Maer727 23-Aug-01 18:29  Thanks for your reply. I find the method you introduced to me works well. But I still have a question, that is, how to show a window maximized but not covering the task bar. Thank again. Maer String to date norbland23-Aug-01 6:05 norbland 23-Aug-01 6:05  Hello... I have to read a txt file (a csv file) and qhen I read one by one field, I can find fields that have different type (long, string, date etc...). So how can I do to convert a string that represent a date in a real date object? Thanks to all You Alessio Bulleri a.bulleri@metodoshoes.it norbland@lycos.it Re: String to date Matt Gullett23-Aug-01 6:07 Matt Gullett 23-Aug-01 6:07  If you are using MFC, you can use COleDateTime. It has a ParseDateTime function you can use to extract a date from a string. Re: String to date norbland23-Aug-01 6:19 norbland 23-Aug-01 6:19  thanks, You saved me ?????? (and in a very very quickly way and time) Thanks Alessio Bulleri a.bulleri@metodoshoes.it norbland@lycos.it Another Font Problem: The "Large Fonts" windows setting! Sprudling23-Aug-01 5:27 Sprudling 23-Aug-01 5:27  My program is not made to handle the "Large Fonts" option in Windows, and therefore when this options is used, things don't appear in lists and so on (Because the list sizes are fixed, and noscroll is enabled). Is it possible to force the font to a spesific size? I want the app to use "MS Sans Serif", size 8 no matter what the windows settings are... Sprudling Re: Another Font Problem: The CodeGuy23-Aug-01 6:56 CodeGuy 23-Aug-01 6:56  Hi, This is just something that a professional Windows developer has to deal with. Windows will scale everything differently based on large fonts. You aren't allowed to mess with this. The OS is doing it behind the scenes. You have a few options: 1) Keep your lists the same size and rely on tooltips to show the whole item in the list when the user hovers over it. 2) Add scroll bars. 3) If your window is smaller than the screen size, consider adding resizing support such as the CResizeableDialog class by Paolo Messina (found on this site). Good luck! CodeGuy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl Toggling splitter orientation Tommy H D Svensson23-Aug-01 4:51 Tommy H D Svensson 23-Aug-01 4:51  Can somebody please tell me how to max/min toggle a view in a splitter? Checkout http://www.codeguru.com/mfc/comments/7113.shtml to see an attempt by Kirk but his code will not solve this case: Imagine a 2x2 splitter where the pane in row 2 col 2 is to be toggled to full view, that is the top left, top right and lower left should be hidden. Hiding them works fine, but when I wish to restore the hidden panes the views in the panes are swapped. And I can't seem to get around it. Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 Sprudling23-Aug-01 4:38 Sprudling 23-Aug-01 4:38  afx_msg int CChildWnd::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) { CClientDC dc(this); CFont font; font.CreateFont(charHeight, 0, 0, 0, FW_NORMAL, 0, 0, 0, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_CHARACTER_PRECIS, CLIP_CHARACTER_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE, "MS Sans Serif"); //charheight is any number (usually 12) dc.SelectObject(&font); m_MyEdit.SetFont(&font); ... } This works fine on Win98, but on WinNT and Win2000 it seems like nothing happens. The default font (FixedSys) is being used instead. Why? And it's not only MyEdit, but all other childwindows: CStatic, CListCtrl, CEdit, CStatusBarCtrl, anything! Please help me Re: Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 Matt Gullett23-Aug-01 4:53 Matt Gullett 23-Aug-01 4:53  You need to allocate the CFont object with the new operator (on the heap) and you need to maintain it for as long as you plan on using that font for those controls. Actually, I am surprised it works on Win98. Usually, I allocate fonts in my OnCreate or OnInitialize and destroy them in the OnDestroy or destructor. Re: Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 CodeGuy23-Aug-01 7:05 CodeGuy 23-Aug-01 7:05  You would not need to allocate the CFont object on the heap -- you could do on the stack as a class member variable. One less thing to worry about during cleanup. However, you still have to remember to call DeleteObject() in OnDestroy. CodeGuy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl Re: Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 Matt Gullett23-Aug-01 7:56 Matt Gullett 23-Aug-01 7:56  You are absolutely right, it just needs to be persisted as long as it is being used. I just like to have definitive control over all resource related functionality. Re: Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 Sprudling23-Aug-01 8:23 Sprudling 23-Aug-01 8:23  A global CFont object could do the job as well I guess then, but is that "good programming"? Sprudling Re: Font problems on WinNT and Win2000 CodeGuy24-Aug-01 4:05 CodeGuy 24-Aug-01 4:05  No. Resources such as fonts should be tied to the lifetime of their windows. Also, you would not want to let other windows have the potential of fighting over the same global font variable. CodeGuy The WTL newsgroup: 860 members and growing ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl How do you make a physical copy of a file through CFile class? tm23-Aug-01 3:51 tm 23-Aug-01 3:51  The scenario is that I have a file xyz.ini and I want to make a backup of it called xyz.ini2 and then rewrite to xyz. I have tried CFile::Rename and CFile::Duplicate and I am getting "a sharing violation occured while accessing an unnamed file". CFile temporiginifile; temporiginifile.Open(m_sFileFullPathName,CFile::modeReadWrite|CFile::shareDenyNone); temporiginifile.Rename(m_sFileFullPathName,m_sFileFullPathName+"2"); temporiginifile.Close(); Paradise is where I am. Voltaire Re: How do you make a physical copy of a file through CFile class? Tomasz Sowinski23-Aug-01 4:13 Tomasz Sowinski 23-Aug-01 4:13  Just use CopyFile API function. All you need to do is to pass the filenames. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com Re: How do you make a physical copy of a file through CFile class? tm23-Aug-01 6:44 tm 23-Aug-01 6:44  Thanks. Paradise is where I am. Voltaire Re: CListCtrl Tomasz Sowinski23-Aug-01 3:59 Tomasz Sowinski 23-Aug-01 3:59  Are you sure you have LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style set? Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com URGENT !!!!!!!! AddPage in PropertySheet Natacha S.23-Aug-01 3:18 Natacha S. 23-Aug-01 3:18  I'm adding dynamically several pages in a Propertysheet, but when the tabscontrols are on more than one line the sheet doesn't inflate automatically. What can I do? Natacha Formatting in messagebox Jimmy Ehrnström23-Aug-01 1:44 Jimmy Ehrnström 23-Aug-01 1:44  Does anyone know if there is any way to easily format the contents of a messagebox? Or maybe just format a CString to be a specified number of columns wide. Now I first have to create a CString and use the Format method on it to fill it with text, values and new lines. But since I'm never sure about how much space the values take it's hard to format the text to look good in the messagebox. What I'm looking for is a way to insert newlines automatically at runtime. Is there any simple way to do this? Thanks! Re: Formatting in messagebox KingsGambit23-Aug-01 2:33 KingsGambit 23-Aug-01 2:33  Hi.. Use, the tab "\t" and "\n" with CString to solve this problem. See the sample given below. CString str; str.Format("Rejeesh\tRamesh\tRanjit\nRejeesh\tRamesh\tRanjit\nRejeesh\tRamesh\tRanjit"); AfxMessageBox(str); Re: Formatting in messagebox Tomasz Sowinski23-Aug-01 2:35 Tomasz Sowinski 23-Aug-01 2:35  I don't think it's worth the trouble - the font displayed in the msgbox can be different on different machines; the maximum width of msgbox depends on screen resolution, etc. You'd have to get the font metrics and compute widths 'manually'. And it's plain impossible to get pixel-perfect columns this way - inserting spaces doesn't give you this level of control. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com Re: Formatting in messagebox Jimmy Ehrnström23-Aug-01 3:22 Jimmy Ehrnström 23-Aug-01 3:22  Thanks for your answers. I'm afraid I was a bit unclear though. What I would like is to specify the desired width of my messagebox and then the program should take care of word-wrapping for me. I guess you thought I wanted to line up data in columns. When I read my first post again I can see that I was a bit vague about what I was looking for. So, let's say I have a string like this: "This is a long string that's supposed to be in a messagebox. It contains some values of unspecified length, for example 1.23456789 and John Doe" Then it would be nice to just tell my messagebox that this string should be divided over several lines where no line would be more than say 40 characters, or 400 pixels, or something like that. Is there any support for this in MFC, or would I have to write my own messagebox class? Or a new string class? It probably wouldn't be very difficult, but I'm not sure it would be worth it. Well except for the fun of it. Re: Formatting in messagebox Tomasz Sowinski23-Aug-01 3:30 Tomasz Sowinski 23-Aug-01 3:30  Then it would be nice to just tell my messagebox that this string should be divided over several lines where no line would be more than say 40 characters So you just need to scan the string and insert newlines at appropriate positions - probably replacing spaces between words. You don't need new class for that - a function will be enough. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com Re: Formatting in messagebox Jimmy Ehrnström23-Aug-01 3:36 Jimmy Ehrnström 23-Aug-01 3:36  You're right, I don't need a class for that. A function should be able to handle it. Thanks for your help! Const Char * etc Ray Kinsella23-Aug-01 0:04 Ray Kinsella 23-Aug-01 0:04  Can someone enlighten me as the significance of the Const keyword, when used in terms on const char * or LPCSTR etc. I have never understood what it does... Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire"

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