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JonEngle22-Jan-06 19:43

22-Jan-06 19:43

I've just gone through the same problem in a large application. We've had some problems with the strings that have had to be located in the database, namely maintenance issues (it can be a bit of a pain to add new or change existing strings). For a good 90% of the strings, we put them in XML files that are loading into hash tables at run time. I prefer this approach, but either/or are a *lot* easier than resources! Just one more piece of advise, make sure however you put the strings together that you can change the order of the parameters in the string itself. We had some developers putting in printf-style formatting, and that was a nightmare for the translators.

Icon not showing in CStatic Control

Tom Moore22-Jan-06 10:09

Tom Moore

22-Jan-06 10:09

Hi,

I am programming a custom error dialog box with two three CStatic Controls.

The first is a title, the second is a message and the third is a picture box set to be a icon.

The first two are okay. The third is really bugging me!

I've created a variable for the CStatic from the Variable Wizard called m_Icon and then in Init_Dialg I set it to a standard Icon using this:

<br />
m_Icon.SetIcon(AfxGetApp()->LoadStandardIcon(IDI_EXCLAMATION)); <br />

I have also tried creating an Icon using HICON and setting the control to the HICON and using the method m_Icon.SetIcon(::LoadIcon(IDI_EXCLAMATION));

They all compile fine.

But when i the app runs, i dont see the Icon. The Controls Visability is set to TRUE.

Where have I gone wrong and how can I correct this?

Many Thanks

Tom.

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-- modified at 16:09 Sunday 22nd January, 2006

Re: Icon not showing in CStatic Control

PJ Arends22-Jan-06 11:21

PJ Arends

22-Jan-06 11:21

LoadStandardIcon() takes a LPCTSTR, not an UINT. Use the MAKEINTRESOURCE macro to convert IDI_EXCLAMATION to an LPCTSTR.

m_Icon.SetIcon(AfxGetApp()->LoadStandardIcon(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_EXCLAMATION));

::LoadIcon takes two parameters, the first of which is the handle to the applications's instance, or NULL if loading standard icons. I am surprised the code even compiled.

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Re: Icon not showing in CStatic Control

Ryan Binns22-Jan-06 17:37

Ryan Binns

22-Jan-06 17:37

Actually, IDI_EXCLAMATION is defined in winuser.h using MAKEINTRESOURCE(), so it's not needed here.

Ryan

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Re: Icon not showing in CStatic Control

Ryan Binns22-Jan-06 17:37

Ryan Binns

22-Jan-06 17:37

Does your static control have the SS_ICON style set?

Ryan

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what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

tom_dx22-Jan-06 4:57

tom_dx

22-Jan-06 4:57

MSG msg; <br />
<br />
while( TRUE )<br />
<br />
{ <br />
<br />
     if ( PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE ) )<br />
<br />
     { <br />
<br />
          if ( msg.message == WM_QUIT )<br />
<br />
          {<br />
<br />
               break;<br />
<br />
          }<br />
<br />
          TranslateMessage( &msg );<br />
<br />
          DispatchMessage( &msg );<br />
<br />
     }<br />
<br />
}

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Re: what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

Cedric Moonen22-Jan-06 7:29

Cedric Moonen

22-Jan-06 7:29

Yes, it's a message loop and ...??? What is EXACTLY the question ?

Re: what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

tom_dx22-Jan-06 7:59

tom_dx

22-Jan-06 7:59

do you think this would be substantially enough for a DX game?

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Re: what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

Stephen Hewitt22-Jan-06 11:19

Stephen Hewitt

22-Jan-06 11:19

Because you're using PeekMessage rather then GetMessage your loop spins in the outer while loop even when there is no message to process. Unless you have an else not show in the code above in the if ( PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE ) ) statement this code is needlessly inefficient. I would suggest you replace it with a GetMessage and watch the CPU usage go down.

Steve

Re: what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

tom_dx22-Jan-06 12:36

tom_dx

22-Jan-06 12:36

thank you for the comment, and yes I do have an else statement in the block but forgot to write it in. so you think it will still be good if it has an else block or should i stick with getmessage?

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Re: what do you think of my message loop for DirectX proj

Stephen Hewitt22-Jan-06 12:41

Stephen Hewitt

22-Jan-06 12:41

Normally you'd use PeekMessage and perform some idle time processing in the else part. I'm not sure what's going on in the else bit but it looks ok to me. I find myself a little concerned that you may be busy waiting but I'd have to see the else bit to be sure.

Steve

Replacing ATL

Jim Crafton22-Jan-06 3:15

Jim Crafton

22-Jan-06 3:15

Does anyone know of a good C++ lib that is free and can replace ATL functionality, specifically implementing enough for the Web Browser component?

[edited:]

This is specifically to implement the set of COM interfaces needed to host the IWebBrowser control. I'd prefer not to have to write all this nonsense from scratch, hence the interest in a library other than ATL to do so for me. MFC won't work, it needs to be freely redistributable in source form (and no GPL crap licensing either).

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Re: Replacing ATL

tom_dx22-Jan-06 5:01

tom_dx

22-Jan-06 5:01

MFC although wouldn't recommend it... WTL which is on sourceforge... found here http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl[^]

ALSO TRY USING .NET WHICH IS LIKE MFC ON ULTRA STERIODS.
I personally think that .NET will eventually replace windows programming, not including game programming.

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-- modified at 11:01 Sunday 22nd January, 2006

Re: Replacing ATL

S. Senthil Kumar22-Jan-06 5:27

S. Senthil Kumar

22-Jan-06 5:27

ATL is a library to write COM code, right? How does it relate to MFC, which is primary targeted for GUI development?

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Re: Replacing ATL

tom_dx22-Jan-06 5:40

tom_dx

22-Jan-06 5:40

He didn't say it had to support COM code, right? and also, I said that I wouldn't recommend it (MFC);)... Big Grin | :-D

also I said WTL which is actually based off of ATL. Any more questions about what I said?
Doesn't MFC support Web Browser functionality?

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-- modified at 11:41 Sunday 22nd January, 2006

Re: Replacing ATL

QuickDeveloper22-Jan-06 21:25

QuickDeveloper

22-Jan-06 21:25

tom_dx wrote:
I personally think that .NET will eventually replace windows programming,

Re: Replacing ATL

tom_dx23-Jan-06 2:06

tom_dx

23-Jan-06 2:06

I suggested that he use .net instead of atl for gui programming. Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: Replacing ATL

Kevin McFarlane22-Jan-06 6:19

Kevin McFarlane

22-Jan-06 6:19

Qt?
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/windows.html[^]

Kevin

Re: Replacing ATL

peterchen22-Jan-06 7:32

peterchen

22-Jan-06 7:32

why not ATL?

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Re: Replacing ATL

Jim Crafton22-Jan-06 7:36

Jim Crafton

22-Jan-06 7:36

Because I need to add WebBrowser support in the VCF. Currently I'm using ATL to do so, but I have been told that it's not usable on compilers like MINGW, because the ATL headers/libs are not re-distributable. So I need something else.

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Re: Replacing ATL

Nemanja Trifunovic23-Jan-06 7:43

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23-Jan-06 7:43

There is Comet[^], but I have never tried it.

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Re: Replacing ATL

Jim Crafton23-Jan-06 8:45

Jim Crafton

23-Jan-06 8:45

Yeah I found that too. It looks like good wrapper for the basic COM stuff, but sadly they don't implement any of the OLE container junk you need to host activeX controls like IWebBrowser.

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Save series of images to animated gif file!

kanscx22-Jan-06 2:46

kanscx

22-Jan-06 2:46

Hi!

I need to write code, which convert series of images to animated gif.
Is some opensource solution for this problem?

Thanks.

ARRAY ADT + TEXT

pvatanpour21-Jan-06 21:27

pvatanpour

21-Jan-06 21:27

finally, after 3 weeks and more than 2000 pages c & c++ books I write my project.
I should thanks for anybody who help me during this time and specially codeproject.

now I have two complete program:

1-ARRAY ADT
2-TEXT MANIPULATION

who want these project or for any sharing and testing;
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Best Regards,

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Changing IP, gateway, etc programatically

Mutty21-Jan-06 15:50

Mutty

21-Jan-06 15:50

I'm writing an application which will change the PCs IP settings (IP, gateway, DNS, etc)

Any pointers on how to do this? Thanks, mutty

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