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how to add animation CWaitCursor

ptr_Electron25-May-09 1:39

ptr_Electron

25-May-09 1:39

During long search operation in MFC applicaton how to add animation CWaitCursor

Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor

Cedric Moonen25-May-09 1:41

Cedric Moonen

25-May-09 1:41

Everything is clearly explained (with an example and everything) in the documentation[^]. Basically, you just create an instance of the class at the begining of your lenghty function and it will be destroyed when the function exits.

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Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor

ptr_Electron25-May-09 1:47

ptr_Electron

25-May-09 1:47

Yes true, But I dont want the normal hour glass, but instead I need some other animation, so...

Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor

Nibu babu thomas25-May-09 2:05

Nibu babu thomas

25-May-09 2:05

ptr_Electron wrote:
Yes true, But I dont want the normal hour glass, but instead I need some other animation, so...

If you've globally set an animated wait cursor then I guess that will be displayed instead of the hour glass. Also you can try LoadCursorFromFile.

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Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor

David Crow25-May-09 8:42

David Crow

25-May-09 8:42

Can you respond to the WM_SETCURSOR message?

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Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor [modified]

ptr_Electron25-May-09 21:02

ptr_Electron

25-May-09 21:02

I wrote this code in the button click event, but no change in the run time
I get normal pointer cursor. please advice, I want to display animated cursor.

HCURSOR hcur;
	hcur = ::LoadCursorFromFile((LPCWSTR)"C:\\eglobe.ani");  
	::SetSystemCursor(hcur,OCR_NORMAL);

when I add watch for "hcur" it is null and unused

modified on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:36 AM

Re: how to add animation CWaitCursor

David Crow26-May-09 3:03

David Crow

26-May-09 3:03

Does hcur have global scope?

WriteProfileString()

susanne125-May-09 1:27

susanne1

25-May-09 1:27

after choosing and closing the Font Dialog in an SDI appliction, the last choosen Fon must be saved via WriteProfileString() and by the next call
it should be loaded sot that the Font is automatically selected via GetProfileString().

I have the following code:

CString strFaceName;
CString strFontSize;
CString strFontStyle;
CString strFontValue;

CFont *m_cfont = (CFont*) new CFont();

LOGFONTA *m_lf = new LOGFONTA();

int m_nFontSize = 0;

CWinApp* pApp = AfxGetApp();

m_cfdlg.GetCurrentFont(m_lf);

strFaceName = m_cfdlg.GetFaceName();

m_nFontSize = m_cfdlg.GetSize() ;

m_cfont->CreateFont(m_nFontSize, m_lf->lfWidth,m_lf->lfEscapement,m_lf->lfOrientation,
m_lf->lfWeight,m_lf->lfItalic,false,0,1,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_SWISS,strFaceName);

itoa(m_nFontSize,(char*)strFontSize.GetString (),10);

pApp->WriteProfileString(strFaceName, strFontSize, strFontStyle);

strFontValue = pApp->GetProfileString(strFaceName, strFontSize, strFontStyle);

as i know WriteProfileString, write in the registry, but this code needs something more to work properly?

Re: WriteProfileString()

Garth J Lancaster25-May-09 2:06

Garth J Lancaster

25-May-09 2:06

you could look at this - Im sure he has a save method in his CFontHelper class ...

CFontHelper[^]

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saving file

trioum24-May-09 23:54

trioum

24-May-09 23:54

how to save any file

Trioum

modified on Friday, June 12, 2009 2:26 AM

Re: saving file

CPallini25-May-09 0:08

CPallini

25-May-09 0:08

Please elaborate.
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Re: saving file (thread hijack)

Garth J Lancaster25-May-09 0:16

Garth J Lancaster

25-May-09 0:16

hah - you got there before me Carlo ...

come stai ? (e suo famiglio ?) (thats wrong I know, hope you know what I mean ..)

Re: saving file (thread hijack)

CPallini25-May-09 0:24

CPallini

25-May-09 0:24

Garth J Lancaster wrote:
come stai ? (e suo famiglio ?) (thats wrong I know, hope you know what I mean ..)

Actually it's pretty good (correct sentence:"Come stai? (E la tua famiglia?)").

BTW: Fine, thanks.

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Re: saving file

trioum25-May-09 0:24

trioum

25-May-09 0:24

i want to save the data at every instance.

Trioum

Re: saving file

Rajesh R Subramanian25-May-09 0:39

Rajesh R Subramanian

25-May-09 0:39

Your post is confusing, unclear and clueless ALL at the same time. Anyone attempting to answer you will have a tendency to jab a needle into their eye.

However, to answer your post: If the other application has opened the file in exclusive access mode, you will not be able to even read it. Again, if you do have access to the file, it is not clear from your post if you want to save updates to the same file (depends on if the application that created the file is allowing other applications to perform a write operation on it).

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Re: saving file

trioum25-May-09 0:50

trioum

25-May-09 0:50

so
I want to auto save the file.

Trioum

modified on Friday, June 12, 2009 2:28 AM

Re: saving file

Rajesh R Subramanian25-May-09 1:02

Rajesh R Subramanian

25-May-09 1:02

WHAT SAVE BUTTON? Where is it? In your app or in the third party app?

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Re: saving file

trioum25-May-09 1:07

trioum

25-May-09 1:07

in the file

Trioum

modified on Friday, June 12, 2009 2:31 AM

Re: saving file

Rajesh R Subramanian25-May-09 1:23

Rajesh R Subramanian

25-May-09 1:23

My question was: Where is the save button?

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Re: saving file

Garth J Lancaster25-May-09 0:10

Garth J Lancaster

25-May-09 0:10

not sure what you mean - if its some sort of program you've written, then its quite easy to keep a 'dirty'/'has-been-modified' flag, set that when ever data is changed, inspect it periodically and save the data if it has been set.

If you mean controlling some sort of other program not written by you then you'll have to supply more information

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Re: saving file

Hamid_RT25-May-09 0:59

Hamid_RT

25-May-09 0:59

But do you know detail of each file for example pdf files or 3gp files and etc?

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Re: saving file [modified]

trioum25-May-09 1:02

trioum

25-May-09 1:02

no one is answering everyone is questionning and fighting with each other

Trioum

modified on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:54 AM

Re: saving file

killabyte25-May-09 20:34

killabyte

25-May-09 20:34

because your question is terrible, so vague, either your grasp of english is letting you down or your waiting to be a darwin award poster boy

Re: saving file

Maximilien25-May-09 4:56

Maximilien

25-May-09 4:56

What is the question ?

do you need help in writing files of different formats ?
or
do you need help on how to implement an auto-save feature ?

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ANSI to UTF-8

Souldrift24-May-09 23:15

Souldrift

24-May-09 23:15

Hi there,

I found a code snippet on the web which converts an ANSI string to UTF-8 format. I implemented it in my own and it works.

<br />
////////////<br />
// to UTF-8<br />
char text[1024]={0};<br />
WCHAR w[1024]={0};<br />
int erg=0;<br />
<br />
strcpy(text, m_pData);<br />
<br />
erg=MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, text, -1, w, sizeof(w) / sizeof(WCHAR)); // ANSI to UNICODE<br />
erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, w, -1, text, sizeof(text), 0, 0);	    // UNICODE to UTF-8<br />
//<br />
////////////<br />

After that 'text' is UTF-8 formatted just nicely.

Now I was wondering, why doesn´t the following (slightly altered) code not work? I just created a char* instead of char[];

<br />
////////////<br />
// to UTF-8<br />
char* text = new char[1024];<br />
WCHAR w[1024]={0};<br />
int erg=0;<br />
<br />
strcpy(text, m_pData);<br />
<br />
erg=MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, text, -1, w, sizeof(w) / sizeof(WCHAR)); // ANSI to UNICODE<br />
erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, w, -1, text, sizeof(text), 0, 0);	    // UNICODE to UTF-8<br />
//<br />
////////////<br />

Thanks,

Souldrift

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