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Hi,
I have a main view with a tool palette which floats above it. When I launch any modal dialogs (such as file opening dialogs) they appear below the palette.
I've got over this by using SetWindowPos to remove the TopMost style using &CWnd::wndNoTopMost. This seems to be the only way to stop it sitting above the dialogs. However, the side effect is that the palette disappears behind my main view. I want to be able to remove its TopMost status but still have it sit above the main view rather than disappearing all together. Can anyone help?
Many thanks,
Simon
PS Is there a way of specifying modal dialogs to have the TopMost window style?
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Yeah.
Remove the window style which causes it to float above others. Then, everywhere in your application where windows are moved, resized or new dialogs are launched, use SetWindowPos to arrange your windows. Place the dialog window to the topmost with &CWnd::wndTop, then place the tool palette window after that (pass the dialog's CWnd pointer as the parameter), place the mainframe window after that (pass the tool window's CWnd pointer as the param) and so forth.
Modal dialogs are always topmost in your application. If you specify a dialog to be system modal, then it will always be a top window until it is closed. Of course, you can always use SetWindowPost as well. After all, CDialog is derived from CWnd..
-Antti Keskinen
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on what we think is possible.
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Your tool palette should be placed on a CDialogBar, then all above problems will disappear.
A dialogbar actually behaves like a modeless dialog
Derive your toolbox class from CDialogBar, place controls on it in the dialog editor just like with a dialog, and create it in CMainFrame::OnCreate
if (! m_ToolPaletteBar.Create(this,IDD_TOOLPALETTEBAR,CBRS_RIGHT,IDD_TOOLPALETTEBAR))
{
TRACE0("Failed to create tool palette bar\n");
return -1;
}
m_ToolPaletteBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_RIGHT);
A window is topmost if it has the WS_EX_TOPMOST style. You can modify this style in the CREATESTRUCT struct's style member, override PreCreateWindow function for setting it.
Peter Molnar
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Using VC++ to read a very large image such as 20000 X 20000, If it has 3 band, then each pixel occupies 3 bytes,the image size would be over 1 G bytes,how to read and process it, I have tried file mapping to read it, but I think it is not very stable, and if I want to process it using different filter algorithm continually and display the result quickly,how to deal with the redo and undo operation,should I write a temp file? so does anyone has good idea, thanks in advance.
swandream
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Read in data partially from your bitmap file, then process this data, then read in some data again...
See CFile::Read and CFile::Seek functions.
Peter Molnar
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I don't think it is so simple as you said, how to orgnize those partial datum and display them while paning and zooming quickly, how to process the image, get display result quickly, and when the display part is changed, how to add the current process method to the new partial image, including undo and redo implementation, so it is a little complicated, though not so difficult.
swandream
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You say you wanna display an image of 20k pixels x 20k pixels, and your user's screen resolution is only 1k x 1k pixels (just for simplicity) (GetDeviceCaps gives the current resolution) then you can
1.
display the pic in its original size (i.e.:20k x 20k). Of course the user will see only a tiny part of it in 1k x 1k (1/400th part), and he can use the scrollbar to navigate it.
In this way you keep all the pic in memory, so your user will have more memory than your pic consumes, in order to be able to use you program efficiently.
2.
read in 20 pixels from file both horizontally and vertically, and make 1 pixel out of it according to an algorithm (maybe taking the average of RGB values), and this about 1 million (=1k x 1k) times.
So you will be able to construct and show a 1k x 1k image out of a 20k x 20k image. This pic will fit the user's screen.
This method does not consume memory but enormously consumes CPU capacity.
3.
Another method would be if you read in from file every 20th pixel both horizontally and vertically (ignoring 19 out of 20 pixels), and show only the 1k x 1k image in this way.
This mehtod does consume neither memory nor CPU, but this image shows 20x20 = 400 times less data (i.e.:resemblance) with the original 20k x 20k pic. Could be a good way if you have pics with large homogenous areas.
Whatever way you choose, you have to make sacrifices, because of the confines of the current Win32 system. I am sure there will be no sacrifices with Win128 or Win256, but it entails some sacrifices of time...
Peter Molnar
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thank you Peter Molnar for your reply, but your methods could not satisfy my request
for the first method you metioned, it is obviously difficult to keep all the pic in memory,20k X 20k RGB image could occupy more than 1G disk space, to make memory more 1G is very luxery.
for the second and third method, I think it only suit for creating navigation image.
swandream
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You need to break your image up into say 1k x 1k tiles and process those separately. You'll notice most paint programs will render really large images in tiles.
Todd Smith
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How to know whether a thread exist or not
Thanks
BOBY
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Call GetExitCodeThread with your threads handle and compare with STILL_ACTIVE return value.
The thread's handle (m_hThread) is a member of CWinThread*, which is returned by AfxBeginThread.
Peter Molnar
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How do you stop in the middle of a function and then wait for a given amount of time then resume without stopping the entire application?
Problem: In my application there are buttons which serve as a menu (drawn with GDI+ so they
are not controls). When clicked they should change color to indicate that it has been clicked. When I click a button it carries out it's function before the button changes color. I need the application to wait long enough before executing its action so that the button has a change to
change color.
Intention of the following code:
When a button is clicked the client area is invalidated and then SetDirty() handles
the double buffering. These lines of code force the screen to be redrawn. p->Action(...)
then performs whatever action it is supposed to.
How do I get the application to wait a bit for the redraw so that the button can change
colors before carrying out it's action? I know that you can't just call Sleep because that
stops the entire appication. I need to be able to wait a given amount of time then call the
p->Action() function.
What techique would work here?
std::vector<Button*>::iterator it;
Button *pB;
for (it = vButtons.begin(); it != vButtons.end(); ++it)
{
pB = *it;
if(pB->IsHit(pt, NULL, m_ActiveButton ))
{
CRect rect;
GetClientRect(&rect);
InvalidateRect(&rect ,false);
SetDirty();
pB->Action( m_hWnd );
}
}
-Steve Messer
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The World is getting smaller and so are the people.
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I have a variable called m_ActiveButton. Each button has a draw function and in that function if the button is active it is drawn one color and if its not active it is drawn a different color.
I can't just draw in onpaint() directly or I will get flickering.
-Steve Messer
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Call UpdateWindow() to force a repaint.
myButton.methodToChangeSomeVisibleProperty();
myButton.Invalidate();
myButton.UpdateWindow();
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I stated that this is not a real button and therefore it does not have the methods you mention. I must either invalidate the whole screen or portions of it. Everything on the dialog ( this is a dialog based project ) is drawn with GDI+ so there are no physical controls on the dialog. Everything is drawn using GDI+.
Even if I could do as you described the action() mentioned in my explaination would occur before the screen would have the change to redraw. The action()'s are calling a dialogs from other dll's.
-Steve Messer
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In the Automating with office2000, I get a range in the word document,and in the range, there are a graph object, how can I get this graph object and programm with it?
where can I find some help document? code sample ? thank you advance.
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In the use of
string str;
getline(cin, str);
if(str=="???" || str=="")
{
}
else
{
}The logic is always executing the invalid string segment, even when valid data is entered.
Why is this happening?
Thanks for any insight.
William
Fortes in fide et opere!
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WREY wrote:
if(str=="???" || str=="")
Change to:
if((str=="???") || (str==""))
that should help I think
Rickard Andersson
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Sonork: 37318
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if((str=="???") || (str==""))
what kinda of comparison is (str=="???") no one compares like this to test wheather the string holds a valid data or not.
this string should be initialised to zero or null before reading... 
The World is getting smaller and so are the people.
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Mr.Prakash wrote:
what kinda of comparison is (str=="???") no one compares like this to test wheather the string holds a valid data or not.
When you do more than one comparions like this you need to put them inside parenthesis. The compiler should even report an error or warning.
Mr.Prakash wrote:
this string should be initialised to zero or null before reading...
He uses std::string, that string gets empty when it gets constructed.
Rickard Andersson
Here is my card, contact me later!
UIN: 50302279
Sonork: 37318
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Enclosed, or not, within parentheses, the desired action does not occur.
William
Fortes in fide et opere!
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Does not even merit a relevant response.
William
Fortes in fide et opere!
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Works OK for me in VC++ 6.
Kevin
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Strange! because I have VC++ 6, and I tried a dozen or more different techniques before posting the question, and I couldn't get any of them produce the desired behavior.
William
Fortes in fide et opere!
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