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Ravi Bhavnani25-Oct-02 9:32

25-Oct-02 9:32

Actually "C:\mydir\myfile.chm" is not a valid filespec.

either way, I think the question has been answered
I couldn't agree more. Smile | :)

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Bad topic id?

Ravi Bhavnani25-Oct-02 7:05

Ravi Bhavnani

25-Oct-02 7:05

Maybe topic 0 doesn't exist? Try using HH_DISPLAY_TOC (pass 0 or NULL as the last arg) to see if it displays the TOC.

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Re: Bad topic id?

ns25-Oct-02 7:26

25-Oct-02 7:26

Okay. TOC does display my chm. Also the book had neglected to mention one vital step so I was getting only 1 pane. I persisted in comparing their finished project with the one I step-followed, and found the omission. I now have three panes. Onto more explorations...

Appreciate your help,
ns

Re: Bad topic id?

Ravi Bhavnani25-Oct-02 9:33

Ravi Bhavnani

25-Oct-02 9:33

Glad u found the errata!

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Window resizing using mouse

Zakarya Shah25-Oct-02 5:58

Zakarya Shah

25-Oct-02 5:58

I got a borderless dialog. So i can't resize it with mouse dragging the borders and the corners. I want to add this feature and this is the problem. Can any one help me ?? Also please tell me about the messages generated while the window size is changed by mouse from the corners and sides. I mean what are the lparam and wparam walues when the window is dragged from left, right, up, down, and corners.

Re: Window resizing using mouse

Maximilien25-Oct-02 6:09

Maximilien

25-Oct-02 6:09

When the window have a border, the non-client area receives the messages

...
CWnd::OnNcMouseMove // WM_NCMOUSEMOVE
CWnd::OnNcHitTest // WM_NCHITTEST
...

since your window doesn't have a border, you will have to simulate the non-client message, and use the WM_LBUTTONDOWN WM_MOUSEMOVE WM_LBUTTONUP (among others) to manage the resizing of your window, sending WM_SIZE, WM_SIZING, and other messages.

Max.

Re: Window resizing using mouse

Paul M Watt25-Oct-02 8:09

Paul M Watt

25-Oct-02 8:09

The WM_NCHITTEST message is sent before every mouse message, that is how windows knows whether it is dealing with a normal mouse message or a non-client mouse message. By simply overriding the default behavior for WM_NCHITTEST, and returning a NC message value, windows will generate the WM_NCMOUSExxx messages.

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Re: Window resizing using mouse

Paul M Watt25-Oct-02 8:06

Paul M Watt

25-Oct-02 8:06

You will need to override the WM_NCHITTEST message. When you reach the area of the window that you would like to be condidered the border for resizing, simply return HT_LEFT, HT_TOP, HT_TOPLEFT etc depending on the circumstance. When you return one of these values, the DefWndProc mechanism will start the resizing process for you.

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Re: Window resizing using mouse

Maximilien25-Oct-02 8:21

Maximilien

25-Oct-02 8:21

Cool , I really did'nt exactly know that!

Max.

Re: Window resizing using mouse

Paul M Watt25-Oct-02 8:50

Paul M Watt

25-Oct-02 8:50

I learned a lot about this stuff when I emulated the entire mouse processing logic over a remote connection. I found that every time a mouse message is called, there is a WM_NCHITTEST / WM_SETCURSOR pair that gets generated right before the WM_MOUSExxx message is processed.

The WM_NCHITTEST message is used to determine which type of message to send, non-client or normal, and the WM_SETCURSOR message is used to update the cursor as it moves over different regions of the windows display.

I have thought about writing an article about this whole process for CodeProject, but I am not sure how many people are still interested in learning the internals of Windows.

Another interesting message sequence is the chain of messages that is generated by the default message handler for WM_SYSCOMMAND.

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Re: Window resizing using mouse

Shog⁹25-Oct-02 13:13

Shog⁹

25-Oct-02 13:13

Paul Watt (kilowatt) wrote:
I have thought about writing an article about this whole process for CodeProject, but I am not sure how many people are still interested in learning the internals of Windows.

Despite the current dot-net-web-service-everything-as-xml-passed-through-five-frameworks-before-reaching-the-same-api-as-everything-else fad, there are still those of us who use and abuse straight Win32 daily. Well-written articles/tutorials/references/rundowns are *always* appreciated... Smile | :)

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Re: Window resizing using mouse

6545645625-Oct-02 9:32

65456456

25-Oct-02 9:32

But why the following is not working for a very simple dialog box app:

UINT CSasaDlg::OnNcHitTest(CPoint point) 
{

	
UINT hittest = CDialog::OnNcHitTest(point);



switch(hittest)
{

case HTRIGHT:
		AfxMessageBox("Hurray! you click right side");
}

	return hittest;
}

Re: Window resizing using mouse

Paul M Watt25-Oct-02 10:11

Paul M Watt

25-Oct-02 10:11

Because you will not get a HTRIGHT status for a dialog with a non-resizable border. You will only get the HTRIGHT, HTLEFT, HTTOP, HTBOTTOM and all of the combinations in between for a window with a resizable border.

If you change the HTRIGHT to HTBORDER, you will see it work.

Good Luck

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CListCtrl and SetTextColor

Richard Hudson25-Oct-02 5:18

Richard Hudson

25-Oct-02 5:18

Does anyone know the answer to this one.

I have a CListCtrl and I want to make the rows different colours.
Can I do this without making it Owner draw? i.e just using SetTextColor

When I insert the items at the moment, all of them are the same colour even though I make multiple calls to the SetTextColor function with different RGB value.

Please could someone help.

Really appreciate it.

Richard

Re: CListCtrl and SetTextColor

Maximilien25-Oct-02 5:32

Maximilien

25-Oct-02 5:32

You have to use owner draw, SetTextColor works for the whole list, there's no item index parameter. it's not that hard to use owner draw, if you only want to change the color of an item.

There might be someone who already create a CListCtrl derived control that do that, did you check here on CodeProject ?

Max.

Re: CListCtrl and SetTextColor

Richard Hudson25-Oct-02 5:37

Richard Hudson

25-Oct-02 5:37

Thanx Max.

Smile | :)

I have done owner draw many times. This is a simple app and I thought I could get away from owner draw.

I just wanted to know for sure.

Anyway thanks for ur time.

Richard

Re: CListCtrl and SetTextColor

Michael Dunn25-Oct-02 20:34

Michael Dunn

25-Oct-02 20:34

You can do that with custom draw (not the same as owner draw). I have an article on custom draw here in the list control section.

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Picture in a ListCtrl background ??

Cris25-Oct-02 5:04

Cris

25-Oct-02 5:04

How do I put a picture (from a resource) in a ListCtrl background ??

Thanks,
Cris ...

Re: Picture in a ListCtrl background ??

Rob Caldecott25-Oct-02 6:21

Rob Caldecott

25-Oct-02 6:21

Unfortunately, you can only use picture files (NOT resources) with the standard list control Frown | :(

. To display a picture from a resource you'd need to go owner-draw (or temporarily extract the resource picture to disk file Smile | :)

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Decompression

Jawache25-Oct-02 4:55

Jawache

25-Oct-02 4:55

Can anyone recommend a simple way of decomressing an archive. I've had a look at zlib and ZipArchive and they are a bit too bloated for the functionality i'm looking for. Just a very basic method of decompressing an archive into a folder?

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Re: Decompression

Ravi Bhavnani25-Oct-02 7:17

Ravi Bhavnani

25-Oct-02 7:17

Here's[^] a class you can use.

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Arobat isn't closing

pnpfriend25-Oct-02 4:10

pnpfriend

25-Oct-02 4:10

Hi!
does anyone can tell me why acrobat isn't closing after I print pdf file programmatically.
I have used two ways to print pdf files,
1) ShellExecute()
ShellExecute(NULL,"print","filename.pdf","","",2);

2) system() by passing command line for printing pdf files

<br />
   fileName = "e:\\CUM_AuntAnnes_1A_19960329.pdf";<br />
   CPrintDialog printer(FALSE);<br />
   printer.GetDefaults();<br />
   //creating Adobe command line, "acrobat /t ....." to print pdf files<br />
   CString command = " acrobat /t ";<br />
   command += "\"";<br />
   command += fileName;<br />
   command += "\" ";      <br />
   command += "\"";<br />
   command += printer.GetDeviceName();<br />
   command += "\" ";<br />
   command += "\"";   <br />
   command += printer.GetDeviceName();<br />
   command += "\" ";<br />
   command += "\"";<br />
   command += printer.GetPortName();<br />
   command += "\"";  <br />
   system(command);<br />

Either way print the pdf but left Adobe Acrbat reader opened. So the user have to close it manually. I don't want the user to close it manually.

Is there links or examples to print pdf with adobe acrobat and close acrobat programmatically? Or other better ways to print pdf?

Thank you

Re: Arobat isn't closing

l a u r e n25-Oct-02 4:20

l a u r e n

25-Oct-02 4:20

can u not kick it off as a process and then send it a WM_CLOSE message when its finished?

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Re: Arobat isn't closing

pnpfriend25-Oct-02 4:29

pnpfriend

25-Oct-02 4:29

Here is an another way that I tried,

<br />
// fileName = the name of the file to print. (in this case, pdf file)<br />
// afile = a structure that contains about file informations such as, name, extention or type, size,....<br />
<br />
   SetShellExecuteInfoStructure(lpExecInfo,print,fileName);  //setting executeinfo structure<br />
   int success = ShellExecuteEx(&lpExecInfo);  // printing a file<br />
   //wait until a file is finished printing<br />
   if(lpExecInfo.hProcess !=NULL)<br />
   {<br />
      // it doesn't work.. may be I did it wrong. I don't really know how post the message though. <br />
      if(afile->type.CompareNoCase(".pdf")==0)<br />
      {<br />
         ::Sleep(25000);<br />
          PostMessage(reinterpret_cast<unsigned int>(lpExecInfo.hwnd),WM_CLOSE,NULL);<br />
      }<br />
      ::WaitForSingleObject(lpExecInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);<br />
      ::CloseHandle(lpExecInfo.hProcess);<br />
   }<br />

I tried it like that and it is not working. I dont know what else I need to do. Infact, I dont' really know how to post the message, I'm a beginner in programming..
Do I have to do something else after I post the meassage in this way???

what else do I have to do?

Re: Arobat isn't closing

pba_25-Oct-02 11:40

pba_

25-Oct-02 11:40

AFAIK Adobe Acrobat has a rich API . Maybe you should take a look http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html[^]

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.