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Does anyone know of any good (preferably online) references for developing Visual Studio Add-ins?
I have a specific add-in I want to develop, for VC6, but I'm not sure how to go about it. My Pre .NET MSDN doesn't seem to be too useful and the post .NET edition seems to be all about automation in Visual Studio .NET 
Derek Lakin.
I wish I was what I thought I was when I wished I was what I am.
Salamander Software Ltd.
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Derek, have a look at WorkspaceWhiz http://workspacewhiz.com/WWhizInterface.html and WndTabs + Add-In Communication Library at http://www.wndtabs.com
I think you'll find some Add-Ins here at CP as well.
Hope that helps. What's your add-in do?
Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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Thanks for the links. I have looked at them already and I don't think they would help.
Basically there are a few areas that I need to deal with:
1. Detect when a dialog resource is being edited and show my add-in's toolbar.
2. Find the source file associated with the current dialog resource.
3. Edit the source file according to user actions in the resource editor.
In a nutshell I am developing an approach for adding automatic size/position updating and would like to develop an add-in to go with it that circumvents the developer having to add any code themselves.
I want some add-in development resources so that I can find out if what I want to do is even possible under VC6 and then find out how to do it if it is.
Any more ideas?
Derek Lakin.
I wish I was what I thought I was when I wished I was what I am.
Salamander Software Ltd.
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The only other links I have are:
http://zmanagers.virtualave.net/
http://www.codeproject.com/macro/wwhizinterface.asp#xx25689xx
I haven't written any add-ins myself. You could also do a Google Search. I don't know if MS have ever documented this stuff very well, if at all. I wonder if it has changed in VS7!!
I don't see why you need an add-in to provide the capabilities you are refering to. Their are several article on CP and CG which address this issue. I've also written code in ED to do this automatically. My code works with any dialog and does not require any coding for specific dialogs. It uses a set of simple rules which dictate what controls should move when the user resizes a dialog.
Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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Thanks for the links; they may turn out to be useful for another idea I have if nothing else 
I'm well aware that the idea has been done several times before, I just have a slightly different spin on it 
Derek Lakin.
I wish I was what I thought I was when I wished I was what I am.
Salamander Software Ltd.
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I have a wizard page created with the CPropertyPage class. I place a bitmap with the dialog editor at position (0,0). When running the dialog, the class places a border around the entire dialog, part of which contains the wizard pushbuttons. Thus my bitmap does not start at the upper left corner, but is offset by about 10 pixels X & Y.
- Does anyone know how I can load a bitmap starting at (0,0) on a CPropertyPage?
- Does anyone know how I can change the text of the Cancel pushbutton on a CPropertyPage?
Thanks in advance,
Bob
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The bitmap is appearing in the correct place: location 0,0 of the Page. If you want the bitmap to appear at location 0,0 on the Sheet (the containing window that holds the buttons and the tab control), I believe you need to draw it manually from within the CPropertySheet-derived class. This is likely to cause problems, however, because the Sheet is not going to know that you are drawing things there.
You can obtain a temporary CWnd pointer for [Cancel] by calling GetDlgItem( IDCANCEL ) from within the CPropertySheet-derived class, after the Sheet proper has been created. Using that pointer, you can move, size, enable, change the text, etc. of [Cancel].
Peace!
-=- James.
"Fat people are hard to kidnap."
(Try Check Favorites Sometime!)
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James,
Thanks for your response. I was able to place the bitmap on the property sheet. The problem is that when the pages get added, they overlay the bitmap. Is there anyway to have the pages added at some offset so they don't overlay the bitmap on the sheet?
Thanks,
Bob
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Not that I know of, but you could place the bitmap/icon at the same location on each of the property pages. That is what I do...
Peace!
-=- James.
"Fat people are hard to kidnap."
(Try Check Favorites Sometime!)
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We use MAKEFOURCC(c1,c2,c3,c4) to create a fourcc.
How can we get the four characters back from the FOURCC?
[VISUAL STUDIO 6.0] [MFC] [WIN98/2]
 Bluute tette!
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Use reference parameters or pointers
frisco wrote:
MAKEFOURCC(&c1,&c2,&c3,&c4)
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How did you know to answer frisco's question before he even asked it
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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That's not what I mean.
FOURCC fourcc; (in fourcc there are four characters)
this gives something like this: 880175460
how can i retrieve the four characters from var fourcc?
[VISUAL STUDIO 6.0] [MFC] [WIN98/2]
Bluute tette!
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I guess Prem Kamur needs to refine his psycic abilities
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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char *strFourCC = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&fourcc);
Then you could index the four characters. It will not be a valid null terminated string because there is no NULL, but you could still do strFourCC[0] and so on.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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I get syntax error on '('.
[VISUAL STUDIO 6.0] [MFC] [WIN98/2]
Bluute tette!
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Sorry I forgot about the HTML formatting, here you go!
char *strFourCC = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&fourcc);
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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tnx
that's it allright
[VISUAL STUDIO 6.0] [MFC] [WIN98/2]
Bluute tette!
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Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am trying to use a regex parser to find some text in a text file. How would I write a regular expression that something like:
the word "Theodore" at the beginning of a line, followed by six lines of anything whatsoever, followed by a single lnie that I am iterested in.
I am having trobule matching part about find the next 6 lines with anything whatsoever in them
Thanks,
Aaron
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It all depends on the syntax of your parser. But have you tried to make a definition for a line?
I will just use pseudo-code, but it would be something like this:
(0 or more characters) + (1 newline character)
Then in your large expression you could look for your target word, then 6 lines, and search for what ever in the single line that you are interested in.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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I am using the boost regular expression parser. I'm pretty new to it, I think it's basically like PERL.
How would I make a definition?
Thanks,
Aaron
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I am sorry I am not familiar with either of those tools. However if you simply create a string definition to pass your regular expression in the boost kit, you can just create a string and enclose it in ( ).
Then you can construct a larger string from all of the smaller strings. There may be better ways to construct expressions with your parser, if I get a chance to look at boost I may post something a little more concrete.
Good Luck!
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Try this:
[code]
^"Theodore"(.*\n){6}
[/code]
This should do  the first line and the 6 lines. (according to the standard used by the flex scanner)
Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu
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I don't want exit Dialog by click Close button (x) default, help me!!!
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Just handle the WM_CLOSE message but don't call the base class's handler.
You could also change the dialog style to not display the close button at all.
--
Dana Holt
Xenos Software
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