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Re: Directory that contains the project file

cad-JC15-May-07 21:33

15-May-07 21:33

I need the header file afxwin.h for this and that's not a standard file in express edition.
I thought that namespace VCProjectEngine would be much easier!

Re: Directory that contains the project file

krmed15-May-07 0:50

krmed

15-May-07 0:50

Actually, you are trying to find the location of your executable. (The project file is only present on your development system.)

Look at GetModuleFileName - it will tell you the full path name of your executable file - no matter where it is run from.

Hope that helps.

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Re: Directory that contains the project file

cad-JC15-May-07 21:46

cad-JC

15-May-07 21:46

but then i need a header winbase.h/windows.h and that's not included with my Express Edition.
So i was searching for a workaround?

Re: Directory that contains the project file

krmed16-May-07 1:46

krmed

16-May-07 1:46

I would find that hard to believe... if you don't have windows.h and winbase.h, you can't develop windows applications - even the express edition allows that. I know the express doesn't have MFC support, but then GetModuleFileName is a Windows API call.

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Re: Directory that contains the project file

cad-JC20-May-07 21:32

cad-JC

20-May-07 21:32

I did a search on my system and the files could not be found, strange? What do i need to have those files: Platform SDK?
I haven't created an executable yet for this small application but I can debug it! I'm going to try this today and see what happens with the application that i have so far.
Thanks for your time, I'm feeling like an idiot!
Regards

Re: Directory that contains the project file

krmed21-May-07 1:48

krmed

21-May-07 1:48

Yes, you need the Platform SDK. Once you install that, you should be in good shape.

Good luck.

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pdf creation(in MFC application)

Midhun_M14-May-07 23:01

Midhun_M

14-May-07 23:01

hello all,

i hav a question regarding PDF creation.There is a free activex control for PDF opration which comes along with acrobat reader.I want to know whether i can use this activeX to create a pdf.If we can then pls do tell the function names to be used for creating the pdf.Or Else any one please send me an free activeX control which can be used for creation as well as viewing of pdf.Sorry if i made the query look too big.

Thanks & Regards

Re: pdf creation(in MFC application)

Nelek15-May-07 2:55

Nelek

15-May-07 2:55

Hi,

it depends of what the destiny computer has, if they have the AdobePDF phantom printer (automatically installed with adobe writer), you don't need anything but the usual printing and selection of that printer. If you want to ensure in any case the pdf... then you should comunicate with the ActiveX or another module able to do it, and send the contents of your document. Most probably is that you will need Threads.

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How to spawn CDialog by CWinThread?

pkyiu14-May-07 22:59

pkyiu

14-May-07 22:59

Hi gentlemen,

I am newbie to MFC programming and I have a problem creating a dialog on a separate thread from the main application.

My situation is: by clicking an icon on a toolbar, a dialog will be prompted and asking for input. As entered the numbers and clicked "OK", these parameters will be passed to the main application to run in a loop and the result will be displayed.

Without threading, the displayed result is obstructed by the dialog and applying the InValidateRect function is not satisfactory since the toolbar now becomes invisible.

Now I have create a "CSub" class based on CDialog and a "CDialogThread" class based on CWndThread. My question is, how to instruct the dialog to run on the thread, then how to pass the threaded dialog parameter back to the main application?

Thank you very much! Smile | :)

Re: How to spawn CDialog by CWinThread?

Arman S.14-May-07 23:46

Arman S.

14-May-07 23:46

From what you explained I do not see any reason of introducing a new thread at least as far as the dialog concerns.

Without threading, the displayed result is obstructed by the dialog and applying the InValidateRect function is not satisfactory since the toolbar now becomes invisible.

This is not so clear. Why does the toolbar become invisible. What's the relationship between the dialog and InvalidateRect?

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Re: How to spawn CDialog by CWinThread?

pkyiu15-May-07 3:31

pkyiu

15-May-07 3:31

Hi Arman, Thank you for your reply. The application is a MDI and the dialog is called by a function of the CView class. After the dialog passes the parameters to this function, it runs a loop which preforms a calculation and display results on the childframe window.

I tried to use InvalidateRect(NULL,NULL,true) inside the function before the loop but all the icons on the toolbar disappears and only reappears after the loop completes.

If use InvalidateRect(m_hWnd,NULL,true) then the dialog only vanish if I clicked "OK" while the dialog is upon the childframe window. If the dialog is partially away from the childframe window, then it remains appear despite I clicked "OK".

I was told that creating a separate processing thread for the dialog will solve the problem but I have little idea on multi threading with MFC.

Hope you understand and thank you very much! Smile | :)

Re: How to spawn CDialog by CWinThread?

kasturi_haribabu15-May-07 1:13

kasturi_haribabu

15-May-07 1:13

Dear,

You need not take that much pain to accomplish this.
If all you need to inform is a count and some other simple parameters,
why dont you put them in the APP, and once you got the parameters from the dialog, AfxGetAPP(), update / set variables and then... your task is done...

regards,
haribabu

Re: How to spawn CDialog by CWinThread?

pkyiu15-May-07 3:45

pkyiu

15-May-07 3:45

Hi, thank you very much. Do you mean the following?

(1)in APP.cpp

CDialog dialog
int t1 = dialog.parameter1

(2)in View.cpp
T1 = AfxgetApp()->t1

Smile | :)

Help with textbox control

Stick^14-May-07 22:49

Stick^

14-May-07 22:49

Ok, I'm new to doing this in C++, although I have done it in C#. As this code has to work inside another larger C++ project I have (game program) I can't just do it in C#.

In my click handler for a button I want to put text into a textbox control on my form. Unfortunately, the "text" is in a c-string (ie null terminated string), and so I'm not sure how to get it to work:

System::Void btnGen_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e)
{
BYTE bMacaddress[MAC_DIM];
CSoftwareKey::RetrieveMACAddress(bMacaddress);

char* pMacString = NULL;
CSoftwareKey::Buffer2HexString( bMacaddress, MAC_DIM, &pMacString );

tbMacAddress->Text = *pMacString; // <---- Problem line
}

I tried first making a string:

string strMacAddr(pMacString);

and then:

tbMacAddress->Text = pMacString;

but this doesn't work either (and I'm sure you are laughing now) =)

Anyway, how can I do this? Basically, pMacString points to something like this:

"000C41805D2D\0" ( if I am making sense )

and so that's what I want in the text box.

Thanks

Patrick

Re: Help with textbox control

Nelek14-May-07 23:34

Nelek

14-May-07 23:34

Mmmm,

are you asking to port from c# to c++? or c++ to c#?

Because... there are elements in your code that are unknown for me :S

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Re: Help with textbox control

Stick^14-May-07 23:40

Stick^

14-May-07 23:40

No, the above code has nothing to do with C#, it is straight C++.

Re: Help with textbox control

Nelek15-May-07 1:01

Nelek

15-May-07 1:01

then I'm more newbie than I thought D'Oh! | :doh:

:P

hehehehe

I've never seen "^" used as "System::Object^ sender"

Nevermind,

your tbMacAddress->Text is a string or a char[x]?

I had some problems with CString and char* in VC++ because of the "\0" at the end of the CStrings. I solved it considering the CString as a vector and taking every letter in a loop and putting it in the place of the char[20] that was needed. Afterwards I passed the &char[0] where the LPCSTR was asked for and it worked. Finally I found another way to do it and changed it but... sometimes silly things give the way to the correct answer.

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Re: Help with textbox control

Hamid_RT15-May-07 0:56

Hamid_RT

15-May-07 0:56

Your code is managed it was better you asked on the (Managed) C++/CLI[^]

WhiteSky

Re: Help with textbox control

Stick^15-May-07 1:10

Stick^

15-May-07 1:10

My question has nothing to do with managed code.

Basically, forget the code which is confusing you, and just think of this as the question:

If you have a c-string (ie a null terminated string) and you want to set the Text in a textbox to that value, how do you do it?

For example, when a button on the form is pushed, set the textbox to the c-string's value.

Patrick

Re: Help with textbox control

Nelek15-May-07 1:44

Nelek

15-May-07 1:44

Hi,

to do that I associate a member variable (CString) to the CEditBox and when I push a button or happens whatever it shall happen, call UpdateData (FALSE);

On the other hand, as the CEdit is derived from CWnd. It should be possible to modify its text with SetWindowText( LPCTSTR lpszString ); but I'm not sure because I have never tried it, I do it as above (VC++ 6)

Greetings.

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Re: Help with textbox control

Stick^15-May-07 2:21

Stick^

15-May-07 2:21

Code?

So if I tell you that you are given a variable:

myString[] = "0C34AZ"; // which is null terminated

what would be working code to put it in a textbox?

Re: Help with textbox control

Nelek15-May-07 3:12

Nelek

15-May-07 3:12

Hi another time,

ok, I have the DoDataExchange in my Form, and a member variable associated to my CEdit.
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_MYEDIT, m_szMemberString);

I initialize it to “” (empty) in the constructor.

And then, in some events/messages I put the name of another element I saved in the Document, in the example a click in a ListCtrl (report mode) where my elements are listed

void CMyFormView::OnClickCtrlList(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult) 
{	POSITION pos = m_clcMyList.GetFirstSelectedItemPosition();

	//If the click was outside the range
if (!pos)
	{	m_nRowNum = -1;
		m_cbButton1.EnableWindow (FALSE);
		m_ szMemberString = "";
		UpdateData (FALSE);
	}
	
	while (pos)
	{	m_nRowNum = m_clcRuleList.GetNextSelectedItem(pos);
		M_szMemberString = pDoc->GetElementNameOfColumn (m_nRowNum);
		m_cbButton1.EnableWindow (TRUE);
		UpdateData (FALSE);
	}

	Invalidate ();			UpdateWindow ();
	*pResult = 0;
	return;
}

Another way (without member variables and the DoDataExchange) can be:

void CMyFormView::OnClickCtrlList(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult) 
{	POSITION pos = m_clcMyList.GetFirstSelectedItemPosition();
	CEdit* pEdit = (CEdit*)GetDlgItem (IDC_MYEDIT);

	//If the click was outside the range
	if (!pos)
	{	m_nRowNum = -1;
		m_cbButton1.EnableWindow (FALSE);
		pEdit->SetWindowText ("");
	}
	
	while (pos)
	{	m_nRowNum = m_clcRuleList.GetNextSelectedItem(pos);
		pEdit->SetWindowText (pDoc->GetElementNameOfColumn (m_nRowNum));
		m_cbButton1.EnableWindow (TRUE);
	}

	Invalidate ();			UpdateWindow ();
	*pResult = 0;
	return;
}

The function I’m using is: CString CMyDoc::GetElementNameOfColumn (int nRow);

Greetings.

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Re: Help with textbox control

Stick^15-May-07 3:21

Stick^

15-May-07 3:21

I just realised why I'm having the problem I'm having.

I started a straight C++ project, and added a CLR form! I really didn't want a managed form, as I want to stick with unmanaged C++. duh

So, basically, either I do this in C# ( or managed C++ ) or I have to learn how to do windows forms Frown | :(

I think I'll stick to a console app to do this simple job and avoid the whole dang problem.

Windows programming is just to much of a pain to learn.

Re: Help with textbox control

Nelek15-May-07 21:11

Nelek

15-May-07 21:11

Hehehehe,

This is the same my partner said. He try to piss me off with "look, in VB I can print with just 2 lines", because I'm having problems to personalize a PrintDialog, margins, Bitmaps...

Windows programming is not easy at all. But it is not imposible, just a question of time and being persistent.

Greetings.

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Re: Help with textbox control

Hamid_RT15-May-07 1:53

Hamid_RT

15-May-07 1:53

If you want to set text for a control Textbox(editbox) or button you can use of SetWindowText();

WhiteSky

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