C / C++ / MFC

Prakash Nadar17-Dec-03 19:22

17-Dec-03 19:22

dereive a class from CButton as CMyButton. override the create method and pass the flags as required, then use ur button where ever cbutton is used. this way you can minimise the no of parameters passed to create a CButton.

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J.B.17-Dec-03 21:26

J.B.

17-Dec-03 21:26

Thanks for the reply, Mr. Prakash.

As my app only has two buttons needed to be push button type, I thought I could quickly "set" them in the OnInitDialog(), like following

m_StaButton.SetButtonStyle(BS_PUSHLIKE, TRUE);
m_StoButton.SetButtonStyle(BS_PUSHLIKE, TRUE);

m_StaButton and m_StoButton are DDX controls to the buttons on the dialog. As you'd expect, they don't seem to work. I am not sure if I understand why..

Prakash Nadar17-Dec-03 21:39

17-Dec-03 21:39

I tried searching for BS_PUSHLIKE button style, dont know wheather it exists??? but the code seems quite rite nothing wrong in it.

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J.B.17-Dec-03 21:47

J.B.

17-Dec-03 21:47

So to my understanding, I can set the button's style and it will change dynamically in my dialog, without having to destroy and re-create the button like this

CRect buttRect;

m_StaButton.GetWindowRect(&buttRect);
m_StaButton.ScreenToClient(&buttRect);
m_StaButton.DestroyWindow();
m_StaButton.Create("Start Print", WS_CHILD | BS_PUSHBUTTON |  WS_VISIBLE, buttRect, this, IDC_STARTPRINT);

maybe the method from my previous post work, I just didn't realise what BS_PUSHLIKE should look like...I will try other styles..

Thanks again

Prakash Nadar17-Dec-03 23:20

IShellExtInit and IContextMenu;

17-Dec-03 23:20

Yes, ( i am not sure, never tried it) your button style can be changed by setting the style....
although this method of destroying and recreating will also work.
Hey after all this is a programming language, you can do the same thing in different ways, but the best way is the effcient way.

regards,
prakash

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Bo Hunter17-Dec-03 15:36

Bo Hunter

17-Dec-03 15:36

How does one find out if items right clicked
is a file class or folder class?

Thank You
Bo Hunter

Re: IShellExtInit and IContextMenu;

Dinesh Ahuja19-Dec-03 2:20

Dinesh Ahuja

19-Dec-03 2:20

Hi Hunter,

Hope this will help you.

WIN32_FIND_DATA wFindData;

ZeroMemory(&wFindData,sizeof(WIN32_FIND_DATA));

hResult = SHGetDataFromIDList(pShellFolder,pPIDL,SHGDFIL_FINDDATA,&wFindData,sizeof(WIN32_FIND_DATA));

In this, pShellFolder is the Address of parent folder and pPIDL is the PIDL corrosponding to the selected item.

if (wFindData.dwFileAttributes && FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
// It is a directory!.
}
else {
// It is a file!.
}

Regards
Dinesh

<vector> destructor problem

aqzhao17-Dec-03 15:22

aqzhao

17-Dec-03 15:22

I have an exporting function in a dll and have to use a
<vector> pointer as parameter.

"
extern "C" __declspec( dllexport ) unsigned int func
(vector<int>* const vIndex)
{
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
="" vindex-="">push_back(i);
}
"

calling application will call the function as follow:
"
....
vector<int> vIndex;
unsigned int iResult = func(&vIndex);
....
"

I am using Vstudio.net 2003
If I use MFC in a shared dll and Runtime library
with /MDd option on both DLL and calling application,
everything is fine. If I use MFC in a static library and
Runtime library with /MTd option on both DLL and calling
application, there's a problem in the vector destructor,
desctructor could not deallocate the memory.

Could someone help me? This is an emergency!!!
Thank you.

Re: <vector> destructor problem

Phil Martin17-Dec-03 16:48

Phil Martin

17-Dec-03 16:48

You've hit upon the problem and solution yourself.

If the dlls in an application are linked against the static C runtime, then any allocation/deallocation will occur in a different heap for each module. If one module tries to deallocate memory that was allocated on a different module, the heap will know nothing about it, and crash when you try and do it.

There are two main alternatives:
1. Use a shared heap, via the DLL C runtime, rather than the static one, and for MFC, this will mean using the shared MFC rather than the static ones.

2. Always ensure that any memory allocated is always deallocated in the same module. This forces you to be extremely careful with the STL, so that probably isn't a viable solution for you.

id3 tag for wma file

qdping17-Dec-03 14:03

17-Dec-03 14:03

How to read and edit the id3 tag for a wma file?
There are functions in the windows media SDK to do it but this involves linking in to a pretty big library for what is a simple operation.
Does anyone know how to do this simply?

Christian Graus17-Dec-03 15:19

Christian Graus

17-Dec-03 15:19

Are they really ID3 tags ? If so, heaps of code exists to do it.

Christian

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qdping17-Dec-03 16:26

17-Dec-03 16:26

ye, but almost all the id3 tags info is for MP3 files,not for wma file. The structure is different. And maybe I haven't found the right space for wma files. If you knew some info, could you tell me? I want the info for wma files. Thanks a lot.

Christian Graus17-Dec-03 16:28

Christian Graus

17-Dec-03 16:28

If the structure is different, then it's not an id3 tag, is it ?

I have no idea how they are encoded then.

Christian

I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

qdping17-Dec-03 16:39

17-Dec-03 16:39

Whatever, thanks for your kind. To speak the truth, I don't know what should them be called, but I'm used to use the id3 tag for all the format. Just the info for Title, Album, Artist, Genre, Year, Comment and Track.

Bob Stanneveld17-Dec-03 21:13

Bob Stanneveld

17-Dec-03 21:13

Hello,

First things first! Is it the ID3v1 tag or the ID3v2 tag.

About the ID3v1 tag:
It is always 128 bytes long and it's located at the very end of the file. Those bytes mean the following:
0 - 2 : These bytes contain the string "TAG", if not, it's not a valid ID3v1 tag!
3 - 32 : Song Title.
33 - 62 : Artist.
63 - 92 : Album.
93 - 96 : Year.
97 - 126: Comments.
127 : Genre.

Sometimes byte 125 and 126 are the track number on the album!
More information on the ID3v1 tag can be found here[^].

about the ID3v2 tag:
It's size is variable, it can contain almost everything (even another song, lyrics, pictures...). This tag is located at the beginning of the file.

Read more about this tag here[^.

These sites helped me alot when I developed an application that needed to read those tags. I hope it does the same for you! Cool | :cool:

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A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.

qdping17-Dec-03 21:31

17-Dec-03 21:31

Hi,Bob Stanneveld,
Thanks for your kinds.
I have visited the site and have got some information on it. But the info is for MP3. The tag for mp3 is different for wma and ogg. I have finished the function for MP3 files and now I am working on wma and ogg files. Any suggestion?

Bob Stanneveld18-Dec-03 21:14

Bob Stanneveld

18-Dec-03 21:14

Hello,

Sorry that I overlooked the fact that ID3v# tags are for MPEG encoded streams.

Since WMA stands for WINDOWS media audio, I did some searching on msdn and this[^] is what I came up with. You can find the discription, the sdk and more on it.

After googling for the OGG file format documentation, I found some interesting results here[^].

Good luck.

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A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.

qdping18-Dec-03 21:55

18-Dec-03 21:55

Thanks for your help. I'll study those documentation. You know, I just a newer. It maybe spend me a long time and I'm not sure whether I could finish it. But I'll try my best.
Nice to meet you. Good luck, too.

How to initialize SDI Doc/View interface from MFC-based dll

Bob Stanneveld19-Dec-03 4:44

Bob Stanneveld

19-Dec-03 4:44

Glad I could help Big Grin | :-D

!

I'm also a newbie, 18 and got much to learn and a very long way to go Wink | ;)

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A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.

JoeSchmoe00717-Dec-03 13:36

JoeSchmoe007

17-Dec-03 13:36

I am trying to create MFC-based dll that will present SDI Doc/View interface
to the user.
[my question is at the end of this rather lengthy post]

This dll will be called from Win32 application that is not MFC based (also,
this app is
written in C, not in C++).

I created MFC-based dll project (called MFCDLL) using the Wizard.

In this project I created following classes:

CPrintingDoc (derived from CDocument)
CPrintingView (derived from CView)
CMainFrame (derived from CFrameWnd)

I created an exported function in this dll:

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int SomeFunction(int n)
{
AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState( ));
theApp.Initialize();
return ++n;
}

My intent is that Win32 application calls SomeFunction(), and SomeFunction
initializes Doc/View environment. Related piece of code looks like this:

BOOL CMFCDLLApp::Initialize()
{
AfxEnableControlContainer();

// Register the application's document templates. Document templates
// serve as the connection between documents, frame windows and views.

CSingleDocTemplate* pDocTemplate;
pDocTemplate = new CSingleDocTemplate(
IDR_MAINFRAME,
RUNTIME_CLASS(CPrintingDoc),
RUNTIME_CLASS(CMainFrame), // main SDI frame window
RUNTIME_CLASS(CPrintingView));
AddDocTemplate(pDocTemplate);

// Parse command line for standard shell commands, DDE, file open
CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo;
ParseCommandLine(cmdInfo);

// Dispatch commands specified on the command line
if (!ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo))
return FALSE;

// The one and only window has been initialized, so show and update it.
m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
m_pMainWnd->UpdateWindow();

return TRUE;
}

Essentially I replicated by hand the code that wizard generates for the
MFC-based .exe application

I also created String Table resource in this dll and added the following
string to it:

IDR_MAINFRAME TEST\n\nTEST\n\n\nTEST.Document\nTEST Document

When I start Win32 application and call SomeFunction() I get the dialog box
with message:

"Failed to create empty document",

and the view is not created.

Stepping through the code I found that the document is actually successfully
created
in function

CDocument* CSingleDocTemplate::OpenDocumentFile(LPCTSTR lpszPathName,
BOOL bMakeVisible)

This function is in file DOCSINGL.CPP (MFC source code). Document is created
in line 112:

[line 112] pDocument = CreateNewDocument();

The problem lies further in the same function, when in line 132 it attempts
to create the
frame:

[line 132] pFrame = CreateNewFrame(pDocument, NULL);

This function call returns NULL, the frame is not created, and this is why I am receiving this error message.

So my understanding at this point is that I maybe have to create this frame
window
myself somewhere in CMFCDLLApp::Initialize() before

if (!ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo))

line (the failed attempt of frame creation is deep inside
ProcessShellCommand())

Is that right ? How would I do this ?

Or maybe I am going in the completely wrong direction - in that case please
suggest what
I need to do differently

How to call a dll from MFC SDI application?

Binayak17-Dec-03 13:00

Binayak

17-Dec-03 13:00

Hi,

I don't have any experience with dlls. I have created a resource only dll and I want to call the resources from a different project, a SDI application. How do I so that? Please reply

Re: How to call a dll from MFC SDI application?

Prakash Nadar17-Dec-03 16:46