C / C++ / MFC

11-Jul-06 20:32

Hi,

The ::SHGetSpecialFolderPath() function is available as part of Internet Explorer 4.0. I would like to emulate this function, on systems with an earlier version of Internet Explorer. Typically, I need my software to run on plain vanilla Windows NT 4.0.

I would like to know if it's possible to emulate this function using ::SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() which is available on my target platform?

The problem is :

::SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(CSIDL_APPDATA) returns an ITEMIDLIST that contains something like "Document and Settings" on my XP box, instead of something more like I would expect, something like "C:\Document and Settings\UserName\Application Data".

Should I revert to using an environment variable? Is there a better solution?

Thanks for your help.

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Maxime Labelle
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Don Box11-Jul-06 21:23

Don Box

11-Jul-06 21:23

Use SHGetSpecialFolderPath () instead of SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(). The former retrieves the path as characters where as, the latter retrieves the path as PIDL.

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Maxime Labelle11-Jul-06 21:54

11-Jul-06 21:54

SHGetSpecialFolderPath() is not available on my target platform...

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Jonas Hammarberg11-Jul-06 21:29

Jonas Hammarberg

11-Jul-06 21:29

Do you have the following registry key?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

If so, wouldn't a wrapper around SHGetS... that always returned a proper path, regardless of IE4 being present or not (w/o IE4, using the above mentioned registry key)?

Maxime Labelle11-Jul-06 21:53

Re: SHGetSpecialFolderLocation [modified]

11-Jul-06 21:53

I've got the specified registry key, but it does not contain an entry for the corresponding CSIDL_APPDATA...

Is there another way?

Thanks

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Maxime Labelle
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Jonas Hammarberg11-Jul-06 22:20

Jonas Hammarberg

11-Jul-06 22:20

I uses SHBrowseForFolder on workstations so I need to call SHGetPathFromIDList (way down in the code...). Is that one available to you?

namespace {
	int CALLBACK BrowseCallbackProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, LPARAM /*lParam*/, LPARAM lpData) {
		if(uMsg == BFFM_INITIALIZED) {
			if(lpData) {
				SendMessage(hwnd, BFFM_SETSELECTION, 1, lpData);
			}
		}
		return 0;
	}

}//ns

extern "C"  int  PickDir(const HWND  hwnd, const char* pszSource, char* pszNew/*, const char* caption*/){
	TCHAR	display_name[_MAX_PATH] = _T("");

	if(pszSource) strcpy(display_name, pszSource); 
	
	HLOCAL	hl(0);
	BROWSEINFO bi;
	memset(&bi, 0x00, sizeof(bi));
	bi.hwndOwner = hwnd;
	bi.pszDisplayName = display_name;
	bi.lpszTitle = /*caption? caption :*/ _T("Välj bibliotek");
	bi.ulFlags = BIF_BROWSEINCLUDEFILES + BIF_EDITBOX + BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS + BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE + BIF_UAHINT;
	if(pszSource && *pszSource) {
		bi.lpfn = BrowseCallbackProc;
		bi.lParam = (LPARAM)(hl = LocalAlloc(LPTR, strlen(pszSource) + 1));
		CopyMemory(hl, pszSource, strlen(pszSource) + 1);
	}
	
	LPITEMIDLIST pidl(SHBrowseForFolder(&bi));

	if(hl) {
		LocalFree(hl);
	}
	if(pidl) {
		if(SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, display_name)) {
			strcpy(pszNew, display_name);
			return TRUE;
		}
	}
	return FALSE;
}

-- modified at 4:26 Wednesday 12th July, 2006

Maxime Labelle12-Jul-06 3:36

Difficult to understand PrintPreview without Doc/View

12-Jul-06 3:36

Yes, it seems that this function is available...
Besides, it returns the correct result.

Now, the question is, why did my code do wrong, because I could not get the correct result. For instance, your suggestion shown below works like a charm:

hResult = ::SHGetPathFromIDListW(pIDL, lpszPath);
if (FAILED(hResult))
    break;

Whereas, the code I was using does not :

IShellFolder* pIShellFolder = 0;
hResult = ::SHGetDesktopFolder(&pIShellFolder);
if (FAILED(hResult))
    break;

STRRET strInfo;
strInfo.uType = STRRET_OFFSET;
hResult = pIShellFolder->GetDisplayNameOf(pIDL, SHGDN_NORMAL, &strInfo);
if (FAILED(hResult)) {
    pIShellFolder->Release();
    break;
}

hResult = ::StrRetToBuf(&strInfo, pIDL, lpszPath, MAX_PATH);
if (FAILED(hResult))
    break;

Has anybody any hints ?

Cheers.
Maxime.

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Maxime Labelle
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mikobi11-Jul-06 20:15

mikobi

11-Jul-06 20:15

Dear Sir,

Up to now i have not realised to preview all i print(using non Doc/view system). Now I resume to learn again this .

After reading KOAY KAY HOE article and examples, i thing that what is previewing is only controls or dialog.

But what to do if I click on the button and need to preview this text " HELLO THE WORLD" for example.

I learn my self

SELECT * FROM - Tablename which has spaces

Tara1411-Jul-06 20:09

Tara14

11-Jul-06 20:09

Hi,

In my vc++ application I am using Access as the database(connected using DAO). The database and tables are created during runtime.

I name the table depending upon the name the user enters. Now the problem is that if he enters a name with spaces, an errors occurs because of the SELECT sql
Say the name is : tara m

SELECT * FROM tara m

causes an error 'Syntax error in FROM clause'

But the table gets created with the correct name.
I tried putting the table name bet ' ', but it says "wrong formating in querry"

Would you be knowing the right way of doing this. Or I must ask the user to type the name without spaces?

Thanks.

Fortitudine Vincimus!

Steve Echols11-Jul-06 20:35

Steve Echols

11-Jul-06 20:35

I'm no SQL expert, but I think you can enclose the table name with square brackets.

SELECT * FROM [tara m]

(Still not sure why you're creating a table for each name though...)

You might post this question in the SQL forum.

- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

Tara1411-Jul-06 20:43

Tara14

11-Jul-06 20:43

Thank you. I shall check out the square brackets.

Steve Echols wrote:
(Still not sure why you're creating a table for each name though...)

Well, the program is such that certain set of 'budget' data should be in one table. And when the user creates another 'budget' a new table with the new budget name has to be created. So if the user wants to delete the old 'budget' all I have to do is delete the table with that name. Makes life easy for me!

Fortitudine Vincimus!

Tara1411-Jul-06 20:50

Tara14

11-Jul-06 20:50

It worked! Thanks a billion!!

Fortitudine Vincimus!

toxcct11-Jul-06 21:14

toxcct

11-Jul-06 21:14

even though using brackets solve your problem, having spaces in a sql element is bad design matter. you should avoid doing so (bu replacing spaces with underscores for example).

moreover, the fact the brackets work is because you use MS SQL Server. a Oracle database wont allow you to do such a thing.

ps, this is a SQL question, which has no relation at all with C/C++. next time, ,ask the right forum !!

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Owner Draw

Try11-Jul-06 19:56

Try

11-Jul-06 19:56

What is Owner draw?

Re: Owner Draw

led mike11-Jul-06 20:11

led mike

11-Jul-06 20:11

It is a Window Style that is supported by "some" Windows Controls.

When set the control sends owner draw messages that can be used to customize the UI of the control to a degree while still leveraging the other behavior and messages of the control.

The owner draw behavior is different for the controls, like Button is different from ListView.

"Just about every question you've asked over the last 3-4 days has been "urgent". Perhaps a little planning would be helpful?"
Colin Angus Mackay in the C# forum

led mike

Re: Owner Draw

Code_Zombie11-Jul-06 20:25

Code_Zombie

11-Jul-06 20:25

Owner draw feature allows the customizing the existing controls or lets drawing the control from the scratch.

Currently, the following controls support OwnerDraw functionality:

Buttons
ComboBoxes
ListBoxes
ListView controls
Menus
Static controls
Tab controls

Whenever the item must be drawn Windows sends the WM_DRAWITEM message to the window procedure of the item’s owner window. This message contains a pointer to
a DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure.The application can customize the controls by handling this message.

Thanks

Re: Owner Draw

Hamid Taebi11-Jul-06 23:10

Hamid Taebi

11-Jul-06 23:10

See TN014: Custom Controls[^] maybe it is some helpful to you

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Problem with STL

Super Lloyd11-Jul-06 19:28

Re: Problem with STL [modified]

11-Jul-06 19:28

I'm trying a double indirect look-up table for some function pointer in my app (yep, I have good reason).
I'm trying to use std::map for the table but (because of the double indirection) I need to use a "std::map*"
Which I don't know how to map[index] (with a pointer)

Now perhaps I'm misusing it, I'm not sure (I know nothing of STL and I have some problem understanding its header)

Anyway here is my code (problem explained in red), if you could give me some tips.....

static std::map<const char*, SEL> map_sels;
static std::map<OClass, std::map<SEL, IMP>*> map_imps;

void id::GetImpAlways(const char* name, SEL& sel, IMP& imp)
{
    if( !_handle )
        throw gcnew ObjectDisposedException(Class()->Name);

    if(map_sels.find(name) == map_sels.end())
    {
        sel = sel_register_name(name);
        map_sels[name] = sel;
    }
    else
    {
        sel = map_sels[name];
    }

    std::map<SEL, IMP> * class_imps; <font color="red">// here I get the problematic "map *"</font>
    if(map_imps.find(_handle->class_pointer) == map_imps.end())
    {
        class_imps = new std::map<SEL, IMP>();
        map_imps[_handle->class_pointer] = class_imps;
    }
    else
    {
        class_imps = map_imps[_handle->class_pointer];
    }

    if(class_imps->find(sel) == class_imps->end())
    {
        imp = get_imp(_handle->class_pointer, sel);
        if( !imp )
            throw gcnew ObjectiveCException("No such method");
        class_imps[sel] = imp;  <font color="red">// can't do that with 'map*', what should I so?</font>
    }
    else
    {
        imp = class_imps[sel]; <font color="red">// can't do that with 'map*', what should I so?</font>
    }
}
<pre>

Re: Problem with STL

Steve Echols11-Jul-06 19:40

Steve Echols

11-Jul-06 19:40

Have you tried dereferencing the pointer like:

*class_imps[sel] = imp;<br />
<br />
and <br />
<br />
imp = *class_imps[sel];

- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

Super Lloyd11-Jul-06 19:50

11-Jul-06 19:50

I am afraid it will create a copy or affect a copy.
I need to alter the static global variable!!

I hate this stupid C++ copy policy, I need to affect the real shared object!!

Re: Problem with STL

Steve Echols11-Jul-06 20:48

Steve Echols

11-Jul-06 20:48

Yeah, I agree. I use pointers for storing my objects in containers (right or wrong), just because I know (or think I know) there's only one instance of my object lying around.

I think these classes are good for simple intrinsic types, like ints, etc., but get kind of irritating when you have to define copy, less than and assignment operators for your classes. Just my opinion, of course.....

- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

Re: Problem with STL

Super Lloyd11-Jul-06 19:50

Re: Problem with STL [modified]

11-Jul-06 19:50

BTW, never mind my problem.
The program crash at the first line:
if(map_sels.find(name) == map_sels.end())

How do I do?
I have a home made C hashtable possibly I should use it instead :-/

Super Lloyd11-Jul-06 20:14