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led mike wrote: Use the WS_SURRENDER style
g'damit, I was using the WS_WHITETOWEL style.
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waldermort wrote: g'damit, I was using the WS_WHITETOWEL style
Rookie mistake 
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Check this article for how to avoid flickering by using the CMemDC object.
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/misc/misc/flickerfreedrawing/article.php/c389
For the Z order, each child of an MDI window has its own Z-order. To iterate through the Z-Order of each child window, you can use the following API:
CWnd::GetWindow() with GW_HWNDNEXT/GW_HWNDPREV or CWnd::GetNextWindow() and while iterating through the windows, you can identify their Z-order.
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Shahzad Asif wrote: Check this article for how to avoid flickering by using the CMemDC object.
Thanks for the link, but double duffering is for the little kids who want the easy way out. I'm making a point in this project to not use any off screen drawing.
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Well, depending on how many drawing operations you have, you might have to use double buffering techniques if you want it to be flicker free.
If you are going to clip child windows in the erase background handler, I suggest you create a region (CRgn) based on the child window rectangles, and use it as clipping mask. That way the parent handler will not erase the background of your child windows (why aren't you using WS_CLIPCHILDREN anyway?? - WS_CLIPSIBLINGS only affect sibling windows).
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote: I suggest you create a region (CRgn) based on the child window rectangles
Thats exactly what I am doing. Due to the nature of the various shapes of my windows, I cannot use the WS_CLIPCHILDREN style for two reasons. I find it to be a lot slower than my own techniques and unless SetWindowRgn() is called for each child, the clipping region is always rectangular.
Clipping the children from the parent is no problem. But clipping the siblings from each other is where I am having some trouble. Obviously the topmost child takes priority, but the underlaying child needs to have it's clipping region altered.
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That's a nice approach
waldermort wrote: I find it to be a lot slower than my own techniques
My code doesn't work, but it's the fastest available 
(Sorry, but that was really funny )
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Given my (relatively) advanced years, I'm allowed to be a grumpy old man.
I'm now exercising that right (and I recognise that no right exists without responsibility, and it's part of that responsibility towards the usefulness of CP as a contributor via the forums that makes me act).
MFC is a set of foundation classes to make working with Win32 easier.
That's 'easier', not necessarily 'easy'. It helps tremendously if you can learn about the Win32 API itself while you are using MFC, because some day you will need to write something that there's no wrapper for.
Go and read Petzold, or actually read the MSDN documentation. At a push, step into some of the source of MFC. But do something that will actually advance your knowledge of the area you're working in.
If you're doing CS in college, pay more attention when your proposed assignments or homework are being discussed. If you don't want to do the work, you won't reap the reward (or if you do, it won't last past your first week in a new job).
If you're doing this for a living (which many of us here are), recognise that hey, we are all in the same boat here, and it pays to be polite, and help where you can. Unless I missed a memo somewhere, no one actually gets paid to help anyone else on here, so if you come across as insufferably rude, you won't get much help.
If I see "URGENT: PLEASE HELP", I tend to skip that. No point helping people who can't plan properly
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Steve S wrote: Go and read Petzold, or actually read the MSDN documentation.
Word!
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I agree too. My other 'favorite' is "quick question." Yeah, right. 
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If I were stood next to you right now I would shake your hand, pat you on the back and run away with your cane.
Learning to use a wrapper, in my opinion, is not learning to code. I see many programs and especially libraries that are coded in MFC, much of the time it's unwarrented. We all know MFC apps come with baggage. If the project is a large scale multi media library, then no problem. But I don't want to download a 3mb calculator, nor would I expect anybody else to.
What pains me the most is to see an excellent code sample that would greatly help in one of my projects, only for it to be MFC only. There are very few projects/articles on here that cater for non MFC users. Is it so difficult for people to test what is defined?
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waldermort wrote: and run away with your cane.
ROTFLMAO aaaahahhahahahaha... 
led mike
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Win32 coding is lot better than MFC . For example , I did my first TCP server using CSocket . I tried to use the same CSocket in a console application . I was able to create,bind and listen on the server object -but I was surprised to find that OnAccept() never fired when clients attempted connections ! . It took me a while to realise that in a console app, if we use CSocket, then the messages won,t be pumped to the socket layer . Someone suggested me to use a invisible framewnd class to act as message handler !
So lets learn it in the right way (hard way ?)- Win32
redindian
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Steve S wrote: we are all in the same boat here
Yeah but some of us should always wear a life Jacket while others should just stay on dry land at get their fish filet at McDonalds.
Don't ask, I have no idea what that means. 
led mike
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led mike wrote: some of us should always wear a life Jacket while others should just stay on dry land at get their fish filet at McDonalds
Mind if I use that as a signature??
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Mark Salsbery wrote: Mind if I use that as a signature??
Sure why not.
led mike
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What is your question? 
led mike
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does anyone know how to modyfy the title bar? like one in yahoo messenger.
please note that i do not want self made title bars(using bitmaps).
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storyera_storyera wrote: like one in yahoo messenger.
Which looks like what?
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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a shiny background, sweet blue color, and yet same fuctionality as of the normal title bar.
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have a look ( google ) at the WM_NCPAINT message, this handle the drawing in Non-Client areas like the title bar.
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Does anybody know about some lightweight free library for parsing numerical/financial data ? For example floars like 12,345.67 , amounts ( -$565.34) etc.
I would also need to parse date in various formats (02/04/06, Feb 32 2005, etc.)
Thank you!
rrrado
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this is not a real huge task to do, and you'd better write yours to fits exactly your needs...
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The Boost libraries, http://www.boost.org, are not lightweight but quit useful for text and string processing. You will have to read the Boost Software License to determine if it is free to your understanding of the word. In addtion to Regex, there is Spirit and Tokenizer.
-- modified at 11:37 Tuesday 7th November, 2006
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