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JennyP1-Aug-02 7:09

1-Aug-02 7:09

Hello,

What's the most expedient way to simply paint a formatted text paragraph (CString) on to a CView inherited window? I'm running in to a morass of non-wrapping text positioning issues... I just want a self wrapping rectangle or, perhaps a text painter that recognizes the \n in the string.

Thanks!

JennyP

Re: Paragraphs on a CView

PJ Arends1-Aug-02 7:16

PJ Arends

1-Aug-02 7:16

Take a look at DrawText(), especially the DT_CALCRECT and DT_WORDBREAK flags

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Re: Paragraphs on a CView

JennyP1-Aug-02 7:41

JennyP

1-Aug-02 7:41

EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED! Thanks! Smile | :)

JennyP

CFileDialog SaveAs Question

moobob1-Aug-02 6:53

moobob

1-Aug-02 6:53

Is there anyway to change the Save button text of the SaveAs dialog of the CFileDialog class to be something else?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

C^hris L^osinger1-Aug-02 6:56

C^hris L^osinger

1-Aug-02 6:56

derive a class from CFileDialog. override OnInitDialog. then, do this:

GetParent()->GetDlgItem(IDOK)->SetWindowText("My new label");

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Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

moobob1-Aug-02 7:29

moobob

1-Aug-02 7:29

Chris,

Thanks for your response. I tried as you suggested, but it crashes. If I do a

	<br />
CFileDialog dlg(FALSE, "*.imp", NULL, NULL, szFilter);<br />
CWnd *wnd = dlg.GetDlgItem(IDOK);<br />

it crashes on the dlg.GetDlgItem call. dlg.hWnd = 0.

Perhaps I'm doing this in the wrong place?

Thanks,
Bob

Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

C^hris L^osinger1-Aug-02 7:32

C^hris L^osinger

1-Aug-02 7:32

moobob wrote:
Perhaps I'm doing this in the wrong place?

yup

1. derive a class from CFileDialog (you have to make a new class, not just instantiate a CFileDialog). ClassWizard can help with this.

2. override OnIntiDialog in that derived class (not in the class that uses the new CFileDialog)

3. put that line of code in the derived class's OnInitDialog

-c

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Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

moobob1-Aug-02 7:39

moobob

1-Aug-02 7:39

Thanks Chris!

Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

includeh101-Aug-02 8:40

includeh10

1-Aug-02 8:40

ur reply to the poster is very interesting.
if GetParent() gets the dialog, what does m_hWnd of the new class stand for?

thx

includeh10

Re: CFileDialog SaveAs Question

C^hris L^osinger1-Aug-02 8:43

C^hris L^osinger

1-Aug-02 8:43

i don't know. that's just code i've always used without even looking at it. it works fine.

-c

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Allow UI during processing??

JennyP1-Aug-02 6:36

JennyP

1-Aug-02 6:36

Hello,

I have a research program that runs in an endless loop. However, during this time, I would like the user to be able to stop the loop with, say, a press of a toolbar button (currently, the loop runs but doesn't respond to any other UI interaction). I saw material on 'threads' but it looked like that was specific to NT (I'm on ME).

How do I do this and where should I go for more information?

Thanks!

JennyP

Re: Allow UI during processing??

C^hris L^osinger1-Aug-02 6:49

C^hris L^osinger

1-Aug-02 6:49

"threads" is the right answer, and you can use them on any version of Windows.

http://www.codeproject.com/threads/[^]

-c

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Re: Allow UI during processing??

Ravi Bhavnani1-Aug-02 7:41

Ravi Bhavnani

1-Aug-02 7:41

Chris is right.

But you can also use poor man's threading by pumping the message queue, if your endless loop can be broken up into smaller tasks that are repeatedly executed. Here's how to pump the message queue.

while (moreWorkToDo()) {
  doSomeWork();
  pumpMessageQueue();
  if (cancelled()) {
     break;
  }
}

void pumpMessageQueue()
{
  MSG   msg;
  while (::PeekMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE)) {
        AfxGetThread()->PumpMessage();
  }
}

Regardless of which method you select, remember to ensure that the user is prevented from executing invalid GUI operations (eg: exiting the app) during processing. Usually, the only operations permitted during processing are (1) updating progress and (2) checking if the user chose to interrupt the process.

/ravi

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Re: Allow UI during processing??

JennyP1-Aug-02 7:49

JennyP

1-Aug-02 7:49

Since my program is really all about this loop, this solution works perfectly!! Thanks! Wink | ;)

JennyP

Re: Allow UI during processing??

Ernest Laurentin1-Aug-02 10:32

Ernest Laurentin

1-Aug-02 10:32

Considering Ravi suggestion, you may also disable the parent window of your progress dialog (just reenable it when you are done) if you want to prevent user to close it or anything else.

As my daughter would say, "... Whatever!"

Re: Allow UI during processing??

Ravi Bhavnani1-Aug-02 11:38

Ravi Bhavnani

1-Aug-02 11:38

Actually that's only necessary if the progress dialog is modeless.

/ravi

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Re: Allow UI during processing??

Ernest Laurentin1-Aug-02 18:42

Ernest Laurentin

1-Aug-02 18:42

Yes, of course!

As my daughter would say, "... Whatever!"

autocomplete in VS.NET

Alexey Kourakolov1-Aug-02 5:44

Alexey Kourakolov

1-Aug-02 5:44

May be somebody know program, which autocomplete source
for exmaple
for() ctrl+f3(for example) -> for(;;)
{
}
if ctrl+f3(for example) -> if ()
{
}
else
{
}
or how make VC.NET for this;
Delphi it may this

Registry management

Cristiano Galeazzi1-Aug-02 5:39

Cristiano Galeazzi

1-Aug-02 5:39

I need to store, in the system registry,
the setting parameters of my application.

If I use the SetRegistryKey, my parameters
are stored in a specific folder placed in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software.

How can I store my parameters in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE in order to
be available for all users ???

Thanks a lot

Re: Registry management

Tomasz Sowinski1-Aug-02 5:52

Tomasz Sowinski

1-Aug-02 5:52

You'll have to go beyond MFC support for registry. Use RegOpenKeyEx with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as 1st argument, then RegsetValueEx and RegCloseKey.

There should be some classes wrapping Win32 API right here on CodeProject.

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write data to .exe itself, possible?

includeh101-Aug-02 5:24

includeh10

1-Aug-02 5:24

can an exe file write data to itself while running?

i mean, sometimes, an exe file writes data to register or file for many reasons (setting, recording etc.), but i feel in case it is neccessary to write data to itself (i.e. if copy the exe file, setting is copied also because the setting is inside the exe file).

do u think it is possible?

thx

includeh10

Re: write data to .exe itself, possible?

Jeremy Falcon1-Aug-02 5:31

Jeremy Falcon

1-Aug-02 5:31

Yes. Study the PE file format for Win32 to make sure you write you data in an acceptable place. That’s the format EXEs are stored in.

Jeremy Falcon
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Re: write data to .exe itself, possible?

Tomasz Sowinski1-Aug-02 5:37

Tomasz Sowinski

1-Aug-02 5:37

... but he's going to write to .exe while .exe is running. This means PE file is mapped to memory, probably in read-only mode.

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Re: write data to .exe itself, possible?

Jeremy Falcon1-Aug-02 5:53

Jeremy Falcon

1-Aug-02 5:53

True, but he talked about copying the EXE. I just figured he'd do that and directly write to the sucker and bring it back over to the original location later on? Confused | :confused:

BTW, I'm still using your screen saver. Smile | :)

Jeremy Falcon
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Re: write data to .exe itself, possible?

Tomasz Sowinski1-Aug-02 6:04

Tomasz Sowinski

1-Aug-02 6:04

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
True, but he talked about copying the EXE.

Oops - it's too hot here; my monitor looses focus obviously Blush | :O

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
BTW, I'm still using your screen saver

Thanks. Watch for upgrade in September or, more likely, October. Smile | :)

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