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ActiveX control popping up a modal dialog

18-Jan-06 23:45

It is EnsureVisible()

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sps-itsec4613-Jan-06 2:17

sps-itsec46

13-Jan-06 2:17

Hi!

I have a strange problem: I want to pop-up a (modal) dialog from an ActiveX control which is a MDI child. I created the dialog and it pops up as regularly using DoModal. I can click around and use the dialog until I don't click the title bar e.g. in order to drag the dialog around. If I do so the dialog freezes the mouse input and I can only navigate through the dialog via keyboard.

Using Spy++ I checked the message queue. When I click on the title bar a WM_SYSCOMMAND (WPARAM: SC_MOVE) is sent and that's it. Message queue hangs. All I can do is navigating by keyboard or Alt+Tab away from and back to the dialog. Then I can use the mouse again. Surely without clicking on the title bar.

I googled for the problem and saw that some people have the same problem but there is no real solution for it. Somebody proposed to surround DoModal with PreModalDialog/PostModalDialog which didn't change anything.

Is it possible that some ActiveX events are missing that need to be routed to the control? I'm out of ideas anyway... Frown | :(

Thanks for your help.

Regards, mykel

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Re: ActiveX control popping up a modal dialog

sps-itsec4616-Jan-06 5:15

sps-itsec46

16-Jan-06 5:15

alright, found a solution:

problem was that MSDN Q187988[^] was applied sometime before which swallowed all my precious messages using a Windows WH_GETMESSAGE hook.

my quick and dirty solution is to disable the windows hook directly before opening the popup dialog and enable the hook again directly after the popup dialog is closed. everything works fine then and I can finally drag the dialog around... yipeeh! what a pain in the ...! WTF | :WTF:

perhaps there is a smarter solution. if you know one I would be glad for a short post.

regards, mykel

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Problem when inserting items in CListCtrl Icon view

Naveen13-Jan-06 1:42

Naveen

13-Jan-06 1:42

i am trying to insert an item in zero'th index.But it dosen't get inserted in the specified position but get appended in the last. My program workes fine in Report view.But i want to do it in ICON view.Can anyone help me?

Thank You

nav

Re: Problem when inserting items in CListCtrl Icon view

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Jan-06 18:58

Re: Problem when inserting items in CListCtrl Icon view

13-Jan-06 18:58

Check the properties of your CListCtrl if Auto arrange, Sort, etc is on. Uncheck whichever is unnecessary and see if that helps. I cannot think of any other reason which could cause this problem.

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-- modified at 0:59 Saturday 14th January, 2006

Naveen13-Jan-06 22:11

Naveen

13-Jan-06 22:11

i have unchecked auto arrange ,made sort order none.But still the problem persist. I found this problem with ICON view and small icon view.When style change to report view or list view its ok.

nav

template Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio .NET

patgo13-Jan-06 0:54

patgo

13-Jan-06 0:54

I am trying to update a program written in C++ using VS6 to VS.NET 2003. One of the errors I can´t solve is the following:

the code:

template <class t="">
class _NoAddRefReleaseOnCComPtr : public T
{
private:
STDMETHOD_(ULONG, AddRef)()=0;
STDMETHOD_(ULONG, Release)()=0;
};

the errors:

(to the first line)
C2332: 'class' : missing tag name
C2011: '__unnamed' : 'enum' type redefinition
C2059: syntax error : 'constant'
C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '>'

(to the second line)
C2059: syntax error : '('

I tried to solve all these errors, but with no luck. Can anyone help me?

Thank you!

Patrícia Gonçalves

toxcct13-Jan-06 1:07

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13-Jan-06 1:07

please edit your post, and uncheck the little "Ignore HTML tags in this message (good for code snippets)" at the bottom of the emoticons...

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Rajesh R Subramanian13-Jan-06 1:16

13-Jan-06 1:16

toxcct wrote:
uncheck the little

lol

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patgo13-Jan-06 1:17

patgo

13-Jan-06 1:17

You're right. Sorry!

Here's the message again:

I am trying to update a program written in C++ using VS6 to VS.NET 2003. One of the errors I can´t solve is the following:

the code:

template <class T>
class _NoAddRefReleaseOnCComPtr : public T
{
private:
STDMETHOD_(ULONG, AddRef)()=0;
STDMETHOD_(ULONG, Release)()=0;
};

the errors:

(to the first line)
C2332: 'class' : missing tag name
C2011: '__unnamed' : 'enum' type redefinition
C2059: syntax error : 'constant'
C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '>'

(to the second line)
C2059: syntax error : '('

I tried to solve all these errors, but with no luck. Can anyone help me?

Thank you!

Patrícia Gonçalves

Stephen Hewitt14-Jan-06 14:50

Stephen Hewitt

14-Jan-06 14:50

Can't see anything wrong here. What I normally do in these cases is dump the pre-processor output and see if any macros are messing stuff up (see what the compiler sees). To do this you add the "/P" option to the compiler setting and rebuild. When you do this the build will appear to succeed with no errors - Don't get excited, it's just the preprocessing that has succeeded. For every .CPP file there will be a matching ".i" file with all macros fully expanded. Find a .CPP file that includes the problematic definitions and open the corresponding ".i" file. Look for your problem class - Perhaps by searching for "_NoAddRefReleaseOnCComPtr". Look for anything weird.

Steve

-- modified at 4:44 Monday 16th January, 2006

NOTE: Changed the "/P" above from "/O" (/O is wrong).

patgo15-Jan-06 22:16

patgo

15-Jan-06 22:16

Thank you for your answer, Steve. I just need one more thing: where do I change the compiler settings?

Patrícia

Any module to encode and decode from bufferarray with a short time ?

Stephen Hewitt15-Jan-06 22:44

Stephen Hewitt

15-Jan-06 22:44

I use MSVC6. This is how I setup the compiler to dump the preprocessor output:
1. Select "Project->Settings..." from file menu.
2. Select "C/C++" tab.
3. Click in the "Project Options" edit control and scroll to the end.
4. Add the "/P".

Remeber to remove the "/P" when you're done.

Steve

James Duy Trinh (VietDoor)13-Jan-06 0:37

James Duy Trinh (VietDoor)

13-Jan-06 0:37

Any module to encode and decode from bufferarray with a short time?

Now, i want to encode buffer array of bmp type to another type with smaller size of buffer array, but take a little time.

With Jpeg type, it take 30 - 40 ms for encoding and decoding, i am finding another module to take about 10 ms

Thanks.

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CListCtrl: Automatic Scroll- Down

romuzu13-Jan-06 0:27

romuzu

13-Jan-06 0:27

I'm making a data logger using a CListCtrl. my problem is when a new row of data is inserted at the bottom of the list, the scroll does not scroll-down and the list display remain at the top.
what I want to happen is to make the vertical scroll, to scroll-downwards automatically so that the latest data received can be easily seen during actual logging of data.

Hope you can help me with my problem! Sniff | :^)

-- modified at 6:28 Friday 13th January, 2006

Re: CListCtrl: Automatic Scroll- Down

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Jan-06 0:37

Re: CListCtrl: Automatic Scroll- Down

13-Jan-06 0:37

When you add a new item to the CListCtrl, use the EnsureVisible() function to make sure that the new item is visible.

romuzu wrote:
Hope you can help me with my problem!

Let me know if this helped.

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khan++13-Jan-06 1:35

khan++

13-Jan-06 1:35

I think you could send it a scroll-down message like:
m_List.SendMessage(WM_VSCROLL,MAKEWPARAM(SB_BOTTOM,0),0);

this is this.

Re: CListCtrl: Automatic Scroll- Down

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Jan-06 1:48

Can i pass MFC Objects in between thread ?

13-Jan-06 1:48

MSDN says when EnsureVisible is used, the item is shown at any cost, atleast partially. If needed, it is scrolled automatically too.

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vikas amin12-Jan-06 23:20

vikas amin

12-Jan-06 23:20

Is it safe to pass MFC objects inbetween threads .
I dont fell any issue but ...
is there any special case were i should not pass
an MFC object inbetween thread.

Vikas Amin
Embin Technology
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Owner drawn12-Jan-06 23:31

Owner drawn

12-Jan-06 23:31

vikas amin wrote:
is there any special case were i should not pass

Yeah CDC objects.

Instead use HDC.

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Stephen Hewitt12-Jan-06 23:41

Stephen Hewitt

12-Jan-06 23:41

MFC objects can not be passed between threads. If you want to do this you have to extract the raw handle from the object in the first thread and use it to create another object in the second thread. For example:

In thread 1:
------------
CDC DC;
// Stuff happens here.
PassObjectToSecondThread(DC.m_hDC);

In thread 2:
------------
HDC hDC = GetHandleFromFirstThread();
CDC* pDC = CDC::FromHandle(hDC);
// Use "pDC" here.

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_Multithreading.3a_.Programming_Tips.asp for details.

Steve

Roger Stoltz12-Jan-06 23:45

Roger Stoltz

12-Jan-06 23:45

It depends on what you mean by "pass" MFC objects and what kind of MFC objects you are "passing".

For instance you should never access any GUI objects from a worker thread to prevent a deadlock situation. Read this[^] if you want to know more. This article is also great to know about thread handling.
In the article forum that belongs to the article there is also a discussion regarding your original question.

I know that CAsyncSocket has some issues when being accessed from different threads, but I can't remember them at the top of my head.

Creating MFC objects, such as CString objects, on the heap and "pass" them to another thread using ::PostMessage is always save provided that you forget about the object in the thread that created the object setting the pointer to NULL and you only have one receiving thread.

You could also use some container class, such as std::queue, to "pass" objects from one thread to another. But then you have to provide synchronization with mutual exclusions such as CRITICAL_SECTION to prevent two threads accessing the same object simultaniously. You simply "lock" the container when accessing objects in the container and "unlock" the container when you're done.

Hope this helps
--
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-- modified at 6:11 Friday 13th January, 2006 Added hint about article forum discussion.

Prakash Nadar12-Jan-06 23:45

Prakash Nadar

12-Jan-06 23:45

many MFC classes (not sure if its all) are very specific to the thread it was created in.

So if you pass MFC objects from one thread to another, and when you try to use it it will ASSERT.

-Prakash