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As I've mentioned here in earlier posts, I've been writing a set of custom controls. They're finished for the most part, but there is one control left to do that has me stumped. I need a custom ComboBox.
The top of the combobox is an image. That is to say, the part of the combobox that displays the current selection as well as the down arrow that you click on to make a selection is a PNG image. What I need to figure out is how to provide the rest of the combobox functionality, specifically, the drop-down part.
The drop-down part doesn't have to be skinable. So I was thinking about using a standard list box. When the user clicks on the combobox's down arrow, a list box appears beneath it. Once the user selects an item, the list box is hidden. If the list box loses focus at any time, it is also hidden.
I've yet to try this, but it seems to be an ok solution. However, I'm looking for better ideas, so I thought I would ask here. Thanks.
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I think I found a better solution. I can subclass the CComboBox class making sure to leave out the WS_VISIBLE style. That way the combo box is invisible. I'll provide the top part image as described above. When the user clicks the down arrow on my image, I'll call ShowDropDown to show only the drop-down list. This seems to give me what I want.
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-- modified at 13:17 Tuesday 2nd October, 2007
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Leslie Sanford wrote: I can subclass the CComboBox class making sure to leave out the WS_VISIBLE style.
Do you still get paint and mouse messages when the window is not visible?
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Mark Salsbery wrote: Do you still get paint and mouse messages when the window is not visible?
Nope.  I just found this out.
What I'm currently testing is creating a custom control derived from CWnd. It has as it's member a CComboBox. The combobox is initialized to have the same dimensions as the custom control. Also, it's created without the WS_VISIBLE style. The custom control does the hit detection with the left mouse button to determine when to show the drop-down list.
This is working so far, but I've yet to wire up the combobox to the custom control so that it propogates selection change events. This may or may not be hard. I'm still refamiliarizing myself with MFC controls.
[EDIT]
Yay! The above approach works. I've got it all wired together. Frankly, it feels like a bit of a kludge, but it's the best approach I can think of other than rewriting the CComboBox from scratch.
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[EDIT2]
Well, this has turned out to be too kludgey for my tastes. I've found a simpler way. I have a pop-up menu appear below the bitmap representing the combobox header. This works nice and smoothly. And I don't feel like I'm trying to shoe-horn a control into doing what I want it to do.
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-- modified at 16:37 Tuesday 2nd October, 2007
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Hi, im a newbe in C++,i only worked whit the old C. Im trying to learn Object Oriented technics.
And now i got stuck in a problem. My prupose is to create a software whit a lot of mathematical functions, so i will explain my problem whit a diferent example but simplest:
supose that i have an abstract class named Form and this class has an pure virtual method named area, cause the area depends of the type of the form. So i'm going to create many derivated classes, for example the triangle, square, and circle; So far so good;
but now;
I want to have an other class to manipulate graphics; so in this class will have an container for forms
for example:
std::vector<form*> Forms; because we can't instanciate the abstrac classes we have to work whit references,wrigth?
how can i add a method to the graphics class to add an triangle whitou declaring an array of triangles and the pass the reference to the vector.
If this can't be done, what is the prupose of the abstract classes: confused:
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Apstolo wrote: how can i add a method to the graphics class to add an triangle whitou declaring an array of triangles and the pass the reference to the vector.
You can simply do that:
Form* pTriangle = new triangle;<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
Form.push_back(pTriangle);
As triangle inherits from Form, it is a Form. That's the principle of polymorphism.
BTW, I'm think Form is not a correct word, you should prefer Shape instead (not sure but I never heard this word used for such purpose, except in french ).
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Cédric,
Yes you are right, i mean Shape instead of Form, i'm portuguese and shape is Forma, and it was a inconscious association, lol.
But you dind't answerd to my question. see this example:
....
#include "Triangle"
#include "Square"
Class X{
....
....
std::vector<shape*> Shapes;
....
}
void X::addTriangle(..parameters..)
{
Triangle aux(..parameters..);
Shapes.push_back(&aux);
}
--------------------
The problem is that wen the method ends it destroys the aux and the reference/adress is lost
and then is an obvius error when i will try to access that adress.
The only way tath a see to resolve is to have an array of triangles, sqares, circles, etc..
an then add the aux to that array, and then push that adress to the Shapes vector, so it's redundant and usless to have the abstract class.
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Apstolo wrote: But you dind't answerd to my question.
Yes I did, I even gave you a snippet of code
Apstolo wrote: The problem is that wen the method ends it destroys the aux and the reference/adress is lost
and then is an obvius error when i will try to access that adress.
That's why you should use a pointer and create the object with new (like I showed in my example). But don't forget to delete the objects when you empty your container.
The reason is because the object is local to your function and will be destroyed when the function exits.
Apstolo wrote: The only way tath a see to resolve is to have an array of triangles, sqares, circles, etc..
an then add the aux to that array, and then push that adress to the Shapes vector, so it's redundant and usless to have the abstract class.
That won't change anything, the problem will be the same.
Sorry, I misread your explanation. Anyway that is not the best way to do that. It is much better to manage yourself the lifetime of your object using new/delete in that case.
-- modified at 10:42 Tuesday 2nd October, 2007
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Tanks Cédric,
It works!!!!
when i first wrote your code, it was almost equal to my way to create and pass the Triangle-Shape, so i belived that you didn't understod my question, and i did a quick example to test your example , and i got an error, so i assumed that it was the error i expected. after your last post, i retryed to do the example and it was another line code that trigged the error.
I'm realy sory. But now it is working.
you was very helpfull!!!! 
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If I am debugging a (32-bit) app using VC6 on Vista 64-bit, and I break out, then the app I am debugging is left running, despite the debugger ending the debugging (apparently successfully). The process appears in task manager, but attempts to kill it simply do nothing (no error, just nothing). The app is locked, so I can't rebuild it, so it's definately loaded into memory somehere. The only way to get out of the situation is to close my VC and re-start it.
Anyone else having this problem? Any one know a fix?
Paul.
"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice" - Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)
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Hi,
I'm modifying a property sheet that has two pages, but also has a view window that displays a graphic based on the data the user is editing. I'd like what is drawn to depend on the current active tab, but I'm not sure how to do this. Is there some sort of tab switching event that my sheet can respond to?
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Have you looked at PSN_ messages?
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Hi all,
I am testing a certain function and I am getting an error
"error C2660: 'boost::unit_test::make_test_case' : function does not take 3 arguments"
This is the code below:
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
using boost::unit_test::test_suite;
test_suite* init_unit_test_suite( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
test_suite* test = BOOST_TEST_SUITE( "Test Convert" );
boost::shared_ptr<MailFile<MAPIMSG>> instance( new MailFile<MAPIMSG> );
test->add( BOOST_CLASS_TEST_CASE(&MailFile<MAPIMSG>::Convert, instance) );
return test;
}
What is wrong with this code?
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Can anybody tell me what is the use of abstract class
since we cant instantiale the abstract class... so why we are using it...
and one more question...
if we define a function as const and static in a class so what are the diffreence when we create the instance of that class other then if we dont define... as static and const..
thanks
tasu
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tasumisra wrote: Can anybody tell me what is the use of abstract class
since we cant instantiale the abstract class... so why we are using it...
Abstract classes are used when you want to provide a common base class to several objects but you don't want to be able to instantiate it directly. Maybe a little example will make things clear.
Suppose you are writing an asteroid game in which you can have several 'entities': the player plane, the asteroids and the missiles shooted by the player ship. Obviously, they all have some common 'functionalities' (they need to be drawn on the screen, you can move them, they can be destroyed, ...), so it make sense to inherit from a common base class, the CEntity class (for example). Of course, you don't want to be able to instantiate a CEntity directly so, you will make it an abstract class. For example how to draw the different entities on the screen depends on the entity itself, so you can make this function a pure virtual function (meaning that the child classes MUST implement this method, which is logical).
Hope this makes a little bit more sense.
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tasumisra wrote: so why we are using it...
To provide an interface which can have different implementations (derived concrete classes).
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tasumisra wrote: Can anybody tell me what is the use of abstract class
since we cant instantiale the abstract class... so why we are using it...
To enable polymorphism.
That's the, um, abstract answer. A more concrete answer...
Consider your computer. You can swap out different parts, put in a new hard drive, exchange your soundcard for a better one, put in a DVD burner, etc. In order for this to work, each component has to adhere to an interface the computer recognizes. This allows the components to be interchanged.
Abstract classes provide the same kind of functionality only with software instead of hardware. An abstract class representing an interface can be used as a base class. Derived classes provide the actual implementation. Because they all have the same base class, they can be exchanged in certain parts of the software just like the hardware components described above.
tasumisra wrote: if we define a function as const and static in a class so what are the diffreence when we create the instance of that class other then if we dont define... as static and const..
I'm not sure I understand the question. static methods exist at the class level. They don't rely on a specific instance of the class to exist.
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hi! Can I create a theme and in my application create a control with theme, which is created by me, using SetWindowTheme etc.? Does anybody know how do it (create a theme and "connect" to it)?
Thanks for any helps
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Ok, I have the function with signature:
bool fncSame(std::string &x, std::string &y)
and a pointer defined as :
typedef bool (*pf)(std::string &, std::string &);
and
pf pfn = &WorkerClass::fncSame;
but it throws the error:
error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'bool (__thiscall WorkerClass::* )(std::string &,std::string &)' to 'WorkerClass::pf'
what am I doing wrong?
TIA
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Member functions and globabl functions don't have the same prototype: for member function, an implicit parameter is passed in the argument list (the this pointer, identifying to which class instance the function belongs to). Thus, they are not compatible.
A way to solve the problem is to declare your member function as static, but then it won't belong to any instance (meaning that it won't be able to access non-static class members).
I think you can also declare in the function pointer that the function belongs to a certain class (but I'm not qbsolutely sure, you have to try it out):
typedef bool (WorkerClass::*pf)(std::string &, std::string &);
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Nope,
gave me this error instead:
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: bool __thiscall WorkerClass::fncSame(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char="">,class std::allocator<char> > &,class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char="">,class std::allocator<char> > &)" (?fncSame@WorkerClass@@QAE_NAAV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@0@Z) referenced in function "public: __thiscall WorkerClass::WorkerClass(void)" (??0WorkerClass@@QAE@XZ) WorkerClass.obj
now its getting so that I don't understand what the error means 
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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That is a different error: now your code compiles correctly but you have a linker error. It simply means that your function is known by the compiler (you provided a prototype) but no implementation has been found. So, provide an implementation and that will probably solve the problem.
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Cedric Moonen wrote: Member functions and globabl functions don't have the same prototype
But the method fncSame is not a global function 
But I do see what you mean and why that would be a possible issue.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote: But the method fncSame is not a global function
No, but that's what I said. Your typedef defines a pointer to a global function, not for a class method. And your fnSame is a class method.
So, they are not compatible.
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Thanks Cedric, got it working 
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib
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hi friends,
i have a very basic doubt regarding the file operations using FILE * fp.
i.e. how can i delete a record from a file.
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