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How to draw mainmenu? Help me..

24-Aug-05 17:34

Does it not compile, or is intellisense just failing ? Have you typed in the full namespace to the class, to see what happens ? I take it you mean the int that goes in gets put onto a private variable with get and set properties ?

The WinForm won't 'see' the class instance for any longer than this method call, unless you're passing it's instance into an ArrayList or something.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

blue_zh24-Aug-05 14:23

blue_zh

24-Aug-05 14:23

Hi, a form inherit System.Windows.Forms.Form,I hold up "WM_NCPAINT"、"WM_SIZE" and Draw caption.But if the form has a mainmenu,it't not drawed after the form minimize and display.
How to do?
thanks..

Re: How to draw mainmenu? Help me..

blue_zh24-Aug-05 14:34

blue_zh

24-Aug-05 14:34

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Docking Properties: by Senthil

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 13:52

24-Aug-05 13:52

Hi,

I think I am not sure how to set the docking properties in an application may be.
I am using the ShellControl control [^]which was written by Senthil. I have created an application and I am using a splitter in this application and pn the right side of the application is a tab control for displaying one treeview and one listview.(it is still not there in the application though) My Problem is that I am not able to fix the width of the different parts. I want the table control be the 1/3 of the application window and the shellcontrol window be 2/3 of the width. How I do it? Because when I maximize the application window, the application looks funny. You can find the application I wrote here.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~amohanty/4_ShellControl.zip

Also, I want to add the opacity property to the ShellControl[http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/shellcontrol.asp] control. How do I do it? Senthil has not set the opacity property. I want my application to look little cool. So I want to have the opacity, which I can control. I guess it is possible to control the opacity of the elements of an application, which doees not affect the opacity of the whole application window.

Any help Christian? :)

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 14:19

24-Aug-05 14:19

Any help available Christian?

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 14:27

24-Aug-05 14:27

LOL

The general way to control the size of objects is the Anchor property. I set the right control to anchor in all four directions and got what I thought was acceptable. If you can't get what you want using these properties, then you need to override the OnSize event and size your controls manually.

I'm looking at the other problem now. As you say, the control does not support transparent colors. Not sure there's anything you can do about it.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 14:53

24-Aug-05 14:53

Thanks..I think I will ask Senthil if anything can be done about the opacity property. Basically i think now I have to learn how to write a windows control library. Am I right? But I am not able to find a good tutorial to start with..
Anyway, great job, Chris..I really appreciate it. If I ever develop a commercial application I think I sud give you half of my money Wink | ;)

..
Regards,
Amit

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 14:57

24-Aug-05 14:57

I have the vaguest recollection of being able to send a message to a control in the past where I got this error message for trying to set opacity, but I just can't remember the details. I hope it works out for you.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 15:07

24-Aug-05 15:07

Can I possibly use panel and write

this.tabControl1.Width=this.ClientSize.Width/3;

something like that..let me try and see

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 15:09

24-Aug-05 15:09

Yes, you can do that in your OnSize, for sure. That's the sort of thing I had in mind when I said to use OnSize.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 15:43

24-Aug-05 15:43

lil more on onSize method may help me, Chris..I am not sure how I want to do that.

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 16:06

24-Aug-05 16:06

Your form has an onsize event. It is fired when the form is resized. If you set up your code as you said to resize stuff in that event, then when the form is resized, the controls will be sized by your code.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

amitmohanty24-Aug-05 16:14

Re: Class Question from Newbie

24-Aug-05 16:14

Worked...Worked...Worked.. Big Grin | :-D

...Actually, that is the Resize method. Thanks..Gotta work for the opacity of the shellcontrol..Regards..Amit

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 13:52

Re: Class Question from Newbie

24-Aug-05 13:52

Unless you want to make this collection public, so that anyone can use it in any way, I'd suggest adding methods for the bits you want to expose, for example, adding an ObjectCount property to Room that returns RoomObjects.Count would make more sense. Then an Add method that adds an object to the room, etc.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 14:10

24-Aug-05 14:10

VickyC# wrote:
Practically the RoomObjects is public. But does not appear.

It can't be practically public, either your instance of the class is public, or it isn't.

VickyC# wrote:
public class Room {
protected string _name;
public Room() { }
public string Name {
get {return _name; }
set {_name = value; }
}

public class RoomObjects : System.Collections.CollectionBase {
public void RoomObjects{}
public void Add(RoomObject roomObject) { List.Add(roomObject); }
.
.
.
public RoomObject Item(int Index) { return (RoomObject) List[Index]; }
}
}
and RoomObject is just another class.

This is a class within a class. Room.RoomObjects.xxx will only show static members, you'd need an *instance* of this class that is public to call non static methods like Add and Count. Does an instance of this class exist inside Room, or just the class itself ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Finding Friday

eggie524-Aug-05 12:28

eggie5

24-Aug-05 12:28

I was just thinking about this, it's not a program or anything (or in one...)......

Given a DateTime, how can I find the a DateTime for the following Friday in that week?

/\ |_ E X E GG

Re: Finding Friday

Christian Graus24-Aug-05 12:45