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Re: Basic GDI question

Nish Nishant3-Jun-02 23:18

Nish Nishant

3-Jun-02 23:18

Mike Nordell wrote:
Don't, it will be dog slow

Yeah it sure was slow Frown | :-(

So slow it looked like some kinda animation where I could see it drawing it on screen Frown | :-(

Nish

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How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

2-Jun-02 18:38

Hi,
I have pure Win32 based project with own message loop, something like:

CreateWindow();
for (;; )
{
	EngineMain();		//render stuff
	if(!PumpMessage()) break;	//handle all window messages
				//...until OpenGL window should be closed
}
DestroyWindow();

When there is nothing todo (e.g. dialog is miminized) I would like to tell Windows that I'm idle. Currently the CPU consumption is allways 100%, because the message loop is running like crazy, hehe. Well, I'd like to avoid that.

thx, Moak Smile | :)

Re: How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

Michael Dunn2-Jun-02 18:39

Michael Dunn

2-Jun-02 18:39

You code never blocks, like GetMessage() normally does. You need some mechanism to make your thread block (and thus receive no CPU time) when the queue is empty, then unblock when a message arrives in the queue.

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Re: How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

2-Jun-02 18:46

thx, i did without PeekMessage and it blocks + CPU consumption is low!

Re: How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

Paul M Watt2-Jun-02 19:49

Paul M Watt

2-Jun-02 19:49

I am just curious, how did you end up doing it?

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Re: How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

3-Jun-02 5:34

kilowatt wrote:
I am just curious, how did you end up doing it?

I'll block with WaitMessage() when there is no window visible. Member variable m_data.bVisible is set in my WindowProc callback handler (have a look on WM_SIZE).

BOOL CBlueSharkEngineWindow::PumpMessage()
{
	assert(m_data.bCreated);
	assert(m_pInterface);

	MSG msg;
	while (::PeekMessage (&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_NOREMOVE))	
	{
		if (!::GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) 
		{
			m_pInterface->pConsole->Logfile(SHARKENGINE_LOG_DEBUG3, "Quit message received");
			return FALSE;			
		}

		::TranslateMessage (&msg);
		::DispatchMessage (&msg);
	}

	if(!m_data.bVisible) WaitMessage();
	
	return TRUE;
}

Greets, Moak

Re: How telling Windows I'm idle in message loop?

Alexandru Savescu2-Jun-02 21:47

Alexandru Savescu

2-Jun-02 21:47

I think you should create a worker thread that does whatever your EngineMain funtion is doing. Thus, you can still handle all other Windows messages

Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu

redirecting mouse button ??

Alek2-Jun-02 18:01

Alek

2-Jun-02 18:01

I used SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE,....) to get mouse message.
After get mouse message(like WM_RBUTTONUP...)I need to redirect it.
For example, when user clicks right button, I want call 'Run...' dialog.
I know that I need to disable popup menu and then to do what I want it to do.

Below is my code:

HHOOK glhHook = NULL;
HINSTANCE glhInstance = NULL;
glhook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, MouseProc, glhInstance, 0);
.
.
.
LRESULT WINAPI CALLBACK MouseProc(int nCode, WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp)
{
if(wp == WM_RBUTTONUP)
{
// do something....

((MOUSEHOOKSTRUCT*)lp->hwnd = NULL;
((MOUSEHOOKSTRUCT*)lp->wHitTestCode = NULL;
((MOUSEHOOKSTRUCT*)lp->dwExtraInfo = NULL;
return false;
}
}

but it still show the popup menu and ignore the action I want to do
why???
Is anybody can give me some suggestion?

Re: redirecting mouse button ??

Paul M Watt2-Jun-02 18:29

Paul M Watt

2-Jun-02 18:29

First, make sure that your code is in a DLL, message hook procs need to be placed in a DLL.

Second, is your code not being called at all, or it is being called, but what you want to happen is not happening?

When you do get your code to happen, you will not want to send the message on to the other hooks in the chain. If you want to prevent whatever app that should receive the mouse message from displaying the context menu, the only way to do this is to make sure that they do not receive the message.

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whats this macro do?

2-Jun-02 16:56

hi, does any body know what this macro does??

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

i found it in a headfile and i have no clue Frown | :(

Re: whats this macro do?

Paul M Watt2-Jun-02 17:45

Paul M Watt

2-Jun-02 17:45

It will turn off name mangling for your program symbols. Which means that programs that are written in a different language besides C++ or even different C++ compilers will be able to use your code. THis also means that you will not be able to take advantage of certain C++ features like function overloading.

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Re: whats this macro do?

2-Jun-02 18:04

well i created a dll which exports this function:

#define dllEngineExport __declspec( dllexport )
dllEngineExport inline HRESULT setAppGUID( GUID g_guidApp );

but when i come to use the dll in other apps the function works fine. but if i include that macro. ill get this error:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _setAppGUID

dunno whats wrong. Confused | :confused:

hide a button?

2-Jun-02 13:19

Im trying to create a background for my application using BitBlt()
Works fine. The image includes butten (I drew some buttons on the image)

And I want them to be clickable.

How can I add a clickable zone? e.g a simple butten, but will not be visable but clickable.

thanks

Re: hide a button?

Nish Nishant2-Jun-02 15:01

Nish Nishant

2-Jun-02 15:01

Instead of a button use a static control. Remember to set the SS_NOTIFY style to get mouse clicks.

Nish

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Re: hide a button?

Paul M Watt2-Jun-02 18:00

Paul M Watt

2-Jun-02 18:00

You could monitor the LBUTTONDOWN and LBUTTONUP combinations to determine if the user clicked the mouse. You would then determine the rectangle where the buttons are on your image, and you could check to see which button should be clicked (if a buttons should be clicked) by testing the point that was clicked in the function PtInRect.

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Can't get rid of error

2-Jun-02 13:17

fatal error RC1004: unexpected end of file found

File of interest is a header file as follows:

// define for the application icon
#define ICON_T3DX 100

// define for the application cursor
#define CURSOR_CROSSHAIR 200

// define for the application music
#define SOUND_ID_MUSIC 1

// defines for the top level menu OPTIONS
#define MENU_OPTIONS_ID_PRINT 1000
#define MENU_OPTIONS_ID_EXIT 1001

// defines for the top level menu HELP
#define MENU_HELP_ABOUT 2000
#define MENU_HELP_INSTRUCTIONS 2001

Tried including stdafx.h but it didn't fix it.

Help!

Re: Can't get rid of error

Rama Krishna Vavilala2-Jun-02 15:13

Rama Krishna Vavilala

2-Jun-02 15:13

How does your CPP file look like. The oroblem may be because of header files included before or after. How do you know that this is the file that causes the error.

Message Closed

2-Jun-02 15:18

User 38746

2-Jun-02 15:18

Message Closed

modified 21-May-21 21:01pm.

Only ".NET". What then?

WREY2-Jun-02 12:11

WREY

2-Jun-02 12:11

Suppose I have just installed VS .NET, and there were no earlier version of VC++ on my machine, would I be able to run pre-.NET applications on my machine? IOW, would I be able to run unmanaged C++ applications on my computer?

Thanks. Smile | :)

William

Re: Only ".NET". What then?

Domenic Denicola2-Jun-02 12:52

Domenic Denicola

2-Jun-02 12:52

Of course! Do you think Microsoft would kill of such a huge amount of applications just because you installed VS.NET? Pretty much everything in the world is written in unmanaged code!

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Re: Only ".NET". What then?

Ed Gadziemski3-Jun-02 11:40

Ed Gadziemski

3-Jun-02 11:40

Do you think Microsoft would kill of such a huge amount of applications just because you installed VS.NET?

If only they could, they only would. Smile | :)

How to get Device Context of Picture Box

Speedy2-Jun-02 11:55

Speedy

2-Jun-02 11:55

to get the device context of a dialog box we write the statement
CClientDC dc(this);
what if i have to get the device context of a picture box control.

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Re: How to get Device Context of Picture Box

moliate2-Jun-02 15:39

moliate

2-Jun-02 15:39

Just replace this with a (CWnd derived) control reference:

CClientDC dc(&m_myPictureBox);
- or -
CClientDC dc(GetDlgItem(IDC_MY_PICTURE_BOX));

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What do i do to not make my app close when one of it's dialogs is closed?

redeemer2-Jun-02 11:01

redeemer

2-Jun-02 11:01

I have opened a dialog with the CreateDialog function, and used ShowWindow etc. to show it. but when the user presses the X in the upper right corner, it closes my whole app, not just the dialog, what do i do?

Thanks

-Rune Svendsen

Re: What do i do to not make my app close when one of it's dialogs is closed?

Joaquín M López Muñoz2-Jun-02 11:21

Joaquín M López Muñoz

2-Jun-02 11:21

Possibly your dialog proc is posting a WM_QUIT message with PostQuitMessage as part of its handling of WM_DESTROY, which causes the main thread to stop pumping messages. Just omit it, or override the handling of WM_DESTROY and do not call PostQuitMessage.

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Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.