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Re: CTreeCtrl problems...

Greven9-Mar-02 7:06

Greven

9-Mar-02 7:06

You are my hero for the day. I have been playing with this thing for hours Smile | :)

What about the images though? I have them in a CImageList, and I've tried using the GetImageInfo and adding a mask to IMAGEINFO::hbmMask variable, but it doesn't seem to do anything... Right now I've made my tree background black and my text white so I don't have to look at the black boarder around the images Smile | :)

And I just don't want to keep it that way...

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Re: CTreeCtrl problems...

Greven9-Mar-02 7:57

Greven

9-Mar-02 7:57

Never mind, I just solved my own problem Smile | :)

Actually, I solved it by reading a different post on a different problem! But it used a CImageList in there, and it works!!!!!!!!!
(I'm happy)

Programming in binary is as easy as 01 10 11.

MFC & WebServices

Gfw9-Mar-02 6:23

Gfw

9-Mar-02 6:23

Assuming Visual Studio 7, can anyone point me in a direction that would show me how to consume a .Net WebService in a C++/MFC desktop application. Sample code would be most helpful. Thanks in advance.

MFCIE 24bit toolbar

Jon Newman9-Mar-02 6:15

Jon Newman

9-Mar-02 6:15

I have a large button toolbar based on the MFCIE samples toolbar. However it only has a limited set of colours. how could i make it 24-bit colour like Winzip 8's toolbar?

.NET or not .NET? MFC is the question......

Re: MFCIE 24bit toolbar

Tomasz Sowinski9-Mar-02 7:41

Tomasz Sowinski

9-Mar-02 7:41

Try this function:

void SetImageList(CToolBar &tb, UINT nMessage, UINT nIDBitmap)
{
	CImageList	imageList;
	CBitmap		bitmap;

	bitmap.LoadBitmap(nIDBitmap);
	BITMAP bm;
	bitmap.GetBitmap(&bm);
	imageList.Create(bm.bmHeight, bm.bmHeight, ILC_COLORDDB|ILC_MASK, 0, 1);
	imageList.Add(&bitmap, RGB(255,0,255));
	tb.SendMessage(nMessage, 0, (LPARAM)imageList.m_hImageList);
	imageList.Detach();
	bitmap.Detach();
}

You call it like this:

SetImageList(yourToolbar, TB_SETIMAGELIST, nNormalBitmapID);
SetImageList(yourToolbar, TB_SETHOTIMAGELIST, nHotBitmapID);

Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

VXD & address translation

9-Mar-02 5:45

Hi I need to do raw harddisk access under 98/Me. The information I've seen tells me that the only way to this (If I don't want to make one 32-bit and one 16-bit dll) is to write a VXD.

VXD:s run in 16-bit mode, doesn't they? I belive that windows does some kind of memory translation when parameters are passed via DeviceIOControl. Is that correct?

But say that I want to read 5 sectors. I must then pass at least 2 parameters, but DeviceIOControl allows only one. I must therefore send a pointer to a struct, say

struct READINFO
{
DWORD nSectors;
char *pBuf;
};

But then the buffer pointer will be incorrect, doesnt it? How can I fix that?

Proxy Stub

Peter Liddle9-Mar-02 5:48

Peter Liddle

9-Mar-02 5:48

Hey Guys

what are the advantages behind merging the proxy and the stub in a dll file and is there any need to enable MTS. In other words what do this features allow you to do i can't do in a standard dll with MFC support.

Peter

Re: Proxy Stub

soptest9-Mar-02 13:30

soptest

9-Mar-02 13:30

COM has nothing to do with MFC at all.
Proxy and stub also has nothing to do with MTS.
When COM marshals and unmarshals interface it uses proxy and stub of that interface. So if proxy/stub is merged with your COM object that means no one can use it but owner.

soptest

MFC worker thread and message Queues

Kevin Behilo9-Mar-02 5:31

Kevin Behilo

9-Mar-02 5:31

Hi,

When I’m not using MFC and starting worker threads with _beginthreadex
I can give them message queues by calling:

PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE);

and then later on in the thread use GetMessage. I can do this without a window which is pretty cool. I tried putting PeekMessage into the ThreadFunc of a CWinThread derived class but it fails and, of course, the later call to GetMessage causes the program to hang.

Before I start pounding my head against the wall I figured I would ask here to see if anybody would know why this would fail and if it is possible to workaround (without creating a window and using a UI thread).

Thanks,
-Kevin

Re: MFC worker thread and message Queues

Tim Smith9-Mar-02 5:55

Tim Smith

9-Mar-02 5:55

GetMessage will hang if you don't have a message waiting. Are you using PostThreadMessage to post a message to that thread?

If so, make sure you are doing that properly.

Tim Smith

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Re: MFC worker thread and message Queues

Kevin Behilo9-Mar-02 6:06

Kevin Behilo

9-Mar-02 6:06

Tim,

I’ve been writing server apps w/o a GUI so bear with me on my next question. Why would the GUI hang if a message queue has been created on an independent worker thread? I’m beginning to believe that a queue has not been created because the call to PeekMessage returns FALSE.

-Kevin

Re: MFC worker thread and message Queues

Kevin Behilo9-Mar-02 6:34

Kevin Behilo

9-Mar-02 6:34

I figured out why the GUI was hanging. A mistake not related to the Message Queue. But I still can't get the Message Q to work. Is there any reason why the scheme in my first post would not work?

Is the thread ID that I get from the CWinThread valid to use in:
PostThreadMessage(pThread->m_nThreadID, 1,1,1);

Confused | :confused:

Thanks,
Kevin

Re: MFC worker thread and message Queues

Tim Smith9-Mar-02 8:39

Tim Smith

9-Mar-02 8:39

Without more example code, I have no idea.

Tim Smith

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Re: MFC worker thread and message Queues

Kevin Behilo10-Mar-02 5:14

Kevin Behilo

10-Mar-02 5:14

I gave up on trying to create a message queue in an MFC worker thread by calling PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE);

There is a good article by Joseph M. Newcomer titled "Using User-Interface Threads" which describes what I wanted to do using UI Threads.

I still would like to know why i can't create the message queue, though!

-Kevin

ShellNew / Namespace Extension :((

9-Mar-02 5:25

I am having much trouble getting my shellnew object to appear on Explorer's right click New> menu...

I have tried putting it in the Winnt\ShellNew, I have tried creating the ShellNew key (and even tried values) under my filename under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT...

There just seems to be nothing I can do to get it to work.

I would appreciate ANY pointers you have, because this is crucial to my application's release.

-- Chas
gte761u@prism.gatech.edu

Re: ShellNew / Namespace Extension :((

Michael Dunn9-Mar-02 6:35

Michael Dunn

9-Mar-02 6:35

Assuming your extension is .foo, under HKCR\.foo\ShellNew you need to create a value that tells the shell how to create new .foo files:

Command Executes an application. This is a REG_SZ value specifying the path of the application to be executed. For example, you could set it to launch a wizard.
Data Creates a file containing specified data. Data is a REG_BINARY value with the file's data. Data is ignored if either NullFile or FileName is specified.
FileName Creates a file that is a copy of a specified file. FileName is a REG_SZ value, set to the fully qualified path of the file to be copied.
NullFile Creates an empty file. NullFile is not assigned a value. If NullFile is specified, Data and FileName are ignored.

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Re: ShellNew / Namespace Extension :((

10-Mar-02 6:07

I tried to use NullFile with no success... I tried Data too.

Any other ideas? (or should I really do Command)

Is there some kind of COM object in which you have to modify the context menu with InsertMenu or something?

-- Chas
gte761u@prism.gatech.edu

Owner drawn tab controls

Derek Lakin9-Mar-02 3:13

Derek Lakin

9-Mar-02 3:13

Anyone know how to increase the height of a tab header (the bit with the label and image on it).

I have an override for DrawItem, but basically it just changes the font and colour. The trouble when the font is bigger than the default it gets clipped. It would be nice to work to work out the width and height (using GetTextExten32 I guess), but it's the height I want to increase specifically.

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Re: Owner drawn tab controls

Tomasz Sowinski9-Mar-02 4:25

Tomasz Sowinski

9-Mar-02 4:25

I'm not sure about tab control, but with owner-draw listbox you handle WM_MEASUREITEM if you want to change item height. At least give it a try.

Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

Problem in making a field !

Hadi Rezaee9-Mar-02 3:03

Hadi Rezaee

9-Mar-02 3:03

Hi all,
In one of my program parts, i must make almost 25 fields in atleast 4 table.
I used CDaoTableDef for making tables and fields, i have strange problem in that.
When i wanna make a boolean field i got this error: "Data Type Conversion Error.".
But i have not any problem for creating text or double and ... fields !
Here is my source code:

tdP.CreateField( "PVISIBLE", dbBoolean, 1 );

What is wrong in this code ? Frown | :(

Please help me ...

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clearing fields

Jasmin Khan9-Mar-02 0:16

Jasmin Khan

9-Mar-02 0:16

dose anybody know the code for clearing editboxs, radio buttons etc? Like a refresh button on my dilaog box.

thanks

Confused | :confused:

Re: clearing fields

Mazdak9-Mar-02 1:40

Mazdak

9-Mar-02 1:40

For edit box check CEdit::SetSel

Mazy

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Re: clearing fields

Paul M Watt9-Mar-02 5:48

Paul M Watt

9-Mar-02 5:48

When people place refresh buttons, they manually reset every control on the dialog.

For radio buttons call:

CheckRadioButton

Checkboxes uses:

CheckDlgButton

To clear the text in an edit box call:

SetWindowText

Re: clearing fields

Nish Nishant9-Mar-02 6:52

Nish Nishant

9-Mar-02 6:52

If this is an MFC program you can do a short-cut trick. Call UpdateData(false) and assuming you have not misused UpdateData at all [which means your DDX member variables get UpdateData'd only on OK] this will reset every control back to how it was on dialog-load. Understand me?

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edit controls

Jasmin Khan9-Mar-02 0:11

Jasmin Khan

9-Mar-02 0:11

beginner
how can i read text entered in a edit box? plus 1 to it and the display the result in a list box?

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