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Trouble while trying to exit a dialog MFC App

26-Jan-04 15:51

allrighte... If I get it, you want a button that will do exactly as if you'd press file->open?
Simple: create that button, then set its ID at ID_FILE_OPEN. It's that simple...

again.. I hope I got it right..

HTH,
Andrei.

andreir2326-Jan-04 11:48

26-Jan-04 11:48

I have a small dialog-type MFC App
In order to not exit the app if I press ESC or Enter I wrote this:

void CVariantDlg::OnOK(){}
void CVariantDlg::OnCancel(){}

In other words I overloaded the functions OnOK() and OnCancel(). It worked! Now I can press ESC or Enter and the app won't close.

My problem is that even if I hit ALT-F4 or right-click it on the taskbar and choose close or hit the x button in the right side of the title bar it won't close!

This sucks. I guess I should check to see what are the latest keys pressed and choose from that point on.
BTW: How did you call the original function from the overloaded version of it?

Anyways... what do you recommend me in order to have the application exit on:
a) X button from title bar
b) ALT-F4
c) Close from the system menu / taskbar rightclick and "Close"

But not:
a) ESC
b) ENter

? TIA! Wink | ;-)

John R. Shaw26-Jan-04 18:08

John R. Shaw

26-Jan-04 18:08

Let the user use ESC or Enter, after all that is what most user will expect.

Otherwise you could probably use GetKeyState() to determine which key was pressed, so you can decide when to allow box to close.

INTP

andreir2327-Jan-04 12:09

27-Jan-04 12:09

THANKS!
It worked!
If GetKeyState(VK_ESCAPE) is -127 or -128 then the user pressed ESC and I will NOT exit the app. Otherwise yes.

rrrado26-Jan-04 21:49

rrrado

26-Jan-04 21:49

Try to leave OnOK and OnCancel like before,
just overload OnClose function like this :

OnClose
{
CDialog::OnOK();
}

rrrado

How do you modify a string from a string table and/or how you use it ?

Robert A. T. Káldy27-Jan-04 1:08

Robert A. T. Káldy

27-Jan-04 1:08

Override a PreTranslateMessage:

BOOL CVariantDlg::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg) 
{
	if (pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN) 
	{
		WORD wKeyCode = LOWORD(pMsg->wParam);
		if ((wKeyCode == 13) || (wKeyCode == VK_ESCAPE))
			return TRUE;
	}
	return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}

Robert-Antonio

andreir2326-Jan-04 11:31

Re: How do you modify a string from a string table and/or how you use it ?

26-Jan-04 11:31

Please don't flame me (too much)... I am still a beginner.
I have a dialog type MFC app with 1 string table. I added there strings for all controls and visual messages to the user. All these in order to make my app multi-language prepared.

I thought this way: "I have default strings for everything. Then I try to load a language.ini file and overwrite every string in the string table with the ones that I read from the ini file. This way if the ini file is incomplete, I won't have textless controls or messages"

My problem is that I don't know how to :

a) Modify (IF POSSIBLE?) a string stored in a string table
b) Use a string from the string table as a parameter to a function that requires one. For example for MessageBox.

Thank you.

PS: One way to do b) that I found is:

CString test;
test.LoadString(IDS_STOP);
MessageBox(test,"abc",MB_OK);

Only I fear that there is a simpler way.

BaldwinMartin26-Jan-04 16:36

BaldwinMartin

26-Jan-04 16:36

Paul DiLascia wrote such an article 8 or 10 years ago. I think it was called multi-lingual applications for MFC it was when VC5 first came out. Sorry I am no more help than this but I am sure he did such an article. Try his home page or micro~~turd~~ soft.
http://www.dilascia.com/
cppqa@microsoft.com <cppqa@microsoft.com>

Best Wishes,
ez_way

Re: How do you modify a string from a string table and/or how you use it ?

John R. Shaw26-Jan-04 18:00

John R. Shaw

26-Jan-04 18:00

On the MSDN CD is a book on internationalization (a newer version of the same book was released by Microsoft Press earlier this year). There are also articles at codeproject on internationalization.

KEY WORD: internationalization

Good luck!

INTP

Re: How do you modify a string from a string table and/or how you use it ?

andreir2327-Jan-04 12:14

Re: How do you modify a string from a string table and/or how you use it ?

27-Jan-04 12:14

Thank you! Seems to work... I found a lot of info.
PS: What does INTP mean anyway? Couldn't find it in the acronym finder.

John R. Shaw28-Jan-04 15:36

John R. Shaw

28-Jan-04 15:36

andreir23 wrote:

What does INTP mean anyway?

From: personalitypage.com

"Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others."

INTP

Help with IE plugin...

S^nyp26-Jan-04 11:23

S^nyp

26-Jan-04 11:23

How can I make an internet explorer plugin bar, kinda like codeproject has... I want to do this for a friend, though I won't make it to annoy anyone lol.. I went to some generic search engine and got so much spam it wasn't funny, anywayz, I looked on the IE bar and there were like 5 new bars. I'm like WTF? thank god for spybot, but anyways could anyone help me maybe find a way I can make a plugin... its for his website, thx.

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Re: Help with IE plugin...

Michael Dunn26-Jan-04 16:33

26-Jan-04 16:33

Check out:
http://www.codeproject.com/atl/ietoolbartutorial.asp[^]

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lpRomang26-Jan-04 9:57

lpRomang

26-Jan-04 9:57

Hi All

I have a big MFC app, with many FrameWnds, toolbars and menus and so on...
When i move the mouse my CPU usage jumps to 100%. I checked it, and discovered that it happens because the all processing that happends in CWinApp::OnIdle.

so, I made this change:
BOOL CMyApp::IsIdleMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if (pMsg->msg == WM_MOUSEMOVE)
return FALSE;
}

It works fine now, no 100 cpu when the mouse is moved.

But my question is this: why CWinApp::IsIdleMessage() is written in this way in first place? why there is a need to update all controls after the mouse has moved?

thanks

Michael Dunn26-Jan-04 16:38

26-Jan-04 16:38

Idle time is where MFC (among other things) calls all your UPDATE_COMMAND_UI handlers. Make sure your handlers aren't doing expensive operations like locking mutexes or hitting the disk.

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Anonymous26-Jan-04 19:18

Anonymous

26-Jan-04 19:18

Ok, but still: why to send UPDATE_COMMAND_UI during mouse move?
why just no return FALSE in IsIdleMessage() when its WM_MOUSEMOVE msg?

Michael Dunn26-Jan-04 19:44

26-Jan-04 19:44

The idle state occurs when no messages are waiting in the message queue. When you move the mouse a little bit, it generates a few WM_MOUSEMOVE messages. Those all get processed very quickly, and then the app goes idle again. So it's not moving the mouse that makes the app go idle, it's stopping the mouse movements.

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Anonymous27-Jan-04 2:12

Anonymous

27-Jan-04 2:12

Ok, So If I'll made this change in IsIdleMessage():

BOOL CMyApp::IsIdleMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if(pMsg->msg == WM_MOUSEMOVE)
return FALSE;

...
...
}

Can this cause any damage? I thought about it and didnt find any reason to return TRUE(like the original IsIdleMessage does) when its WM_MOUSEMOVE, am i correct?

10x

Michael Dunn27-Jan-04 7:07