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Rahul Vaishnav16-Dec-08 22:51

16-Dec-08 22:51

Hi all,

I want to set position of my window on top of Taskbar window also..

I have used

::SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, X, Y, cx, cy, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW | SWP_DRAWFRAME);

this is working fine in case of XP but in vista my window gets overlapped by the TaskBar.

Note: In both XP & Vista I have enabled "Keep the Taskbar on top of all other windows" property of Taskbar.

I want my window tobe work like Task Manager Window.

Please provide some solution to me.

Thanks in advance.

Jijo.Raj16-Dec-08 23:36

Jijo.Raj

16-Dec-08 23:36

Try disabling "Always on top" feature of taskbar when your application starts and restore it when your application exits. Check this article[^] about how to do it. Open the article and search for "Taskbar always on top". Hope it will help.

Regards,
Jijo.

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Rahul Vaishnav17-Dec-08 0:30

Rahul Vaishnav

17-Dec-08 0:30

Thanks for your reply,

I have tried this

static HWND hShellWnd = ::FindWindow(_T("Shell_TrayWnd"), NULL);
 if(hShellWnd != NULL)
 {
   // Set taskbar always on top off
						::SendMessage(hShellWnd, 0x2b1, 8, 0);
						::SendMessage(hShellWnd, 0x581/*WM_USER+385*/, 1, 0);
						::SendMessage(hShellWnd, 0x550/*WM_USER+336*/, 0, 10001);
						::SendMessage(hShellWnd, 0x579/*WM_USER+377*/, 0, 0);
 }

::SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, X, Y, cx, cy, SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_DRAWFRAME);

but it won't work,actually I think that "always on top off" code is not working..

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer17-Dec-08 0:54

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

17-Dec-08 0:54

This is a bad idea...

To quote Raymond Chen. "What if another program does this?"

When they close, it will put back the taskbar how it found it, and you'd mysteriously stop working.

Or worse, you'd close first, and mess *their* program up.

Naughty programmer!

Iain.

Rahul Vaishnav17-Dec-08 1:29

Rahul Vaishnav

17-Dec-08 1:29

I aggree with you, Poke tongue | ;-P

but I have just tried weather it works or not..

I am also going through the link which you have provided

but couldn't find any solution yet.
Frown | :(

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer16-Dec-08 23:36

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

16-Dec-08 23:36

It took me a bit of digging, as some terminology can be a bit odd...

But you might want to let explorer do most of the work for you, by writing your program as a "Desk Band".

Have a look at the following msdn article, and scroll down aways until you get to the desk band section.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144099(VS.85).aspx[^]

I'd also look at Michael Dunn's shell programming articles - possibly the best articles since "How to slice bread using only your debugger".

Iain.

checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

karhong16-Dec-08 22:32

karhong

16-Dec-08 22:32

Hi, Is there any ways for me to add a check marks or icon into the submenu?

I'm currently creating owner draw menu.
So far, I only able to print out the text into the submenu... I failed to put the check mark/icon into it.. Any help will be appreciated

Currently all my drawing are done at:

DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct)
{

}

Regards,
KH

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Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

L. Madhavan16-Dec-08 22:50

L. Madhavan

16-Dec-08 22:50

What problem are you facing in drawing the icon? You can use DrawIconEx[^] and pass in the DC from the DRAWITEMSTRUCT.

Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

karhong16-Dec-08 23:18

karhong

16-Dec-08 23:18

because i currently put some code inside ::DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct)

CDC* pDC; //i used this to draw a rect to the menu

CRect rect;
rect.left=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.left;
rect.top=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.top + 2;
rect.right=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.right;
rect.bottom=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.bottom + 2

//str is a string which i want to output : eg -> Open\tCtrl+O
pDC->DrawText (str,rectt,nFormat); //this will draw text into the menu/submenu

What i want now is i want to make a checkmark/icon on the left side of the Text.
I'm not sure on how to draw it on the left side of the text

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Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

L. Madhavan17-Dec-08 2:02

L. Madhavan

17-Dec-08 2:02

Shift the rectangle by the icon dimensions, say 16 pixels to the right, then draw the text there. Now draw the icon at the original position.

CRect rect;
rect.left=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.left;
rect.top=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.top + 2;
rect.right=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.right;
rect.bottom=lpDrawItemStruct->rcItem.bottom + 2;

// Put code here to draw icon at (rect.left, rect.top)

// Now shift the rectangle before drawing text
rect.OffsetRect(16, 0);

//str is a string which i want to output : eg -> Open\tCtrl+O
pDC->DrawText (str,rectt,nFormat); //this will draw text into the menu/submenu

You can load standard images such as check mark etc. using LoadBitmap[^]

Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

karhong17-Dec-08 14:25

karhong

17-Dec-08 14:25

thanks ! ^^ got it worked out
$Shucks | :-\$

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Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer16-Dec-08 23:11

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

16-Dec-08 23:11

Yesterday I pointed you at an article which is a super reference on this stuff.

After a bit of digging, I found how Bruno does it...

Not quite as trivial as I thought, but the info is there.

Iain.

void CNewMenu::DrawSpecialChar(CDC* pDC, LPCRECT pRect, TCHAR Sign, BOOL bBold)
{
	//  48 Min
	//  49 Max
	//  50 Restore
	//  98 Checkmark 
	// 105 Bullet
	// 114 Close
	
	CFont MyFont;
	LOGFONT logfont;
	
	CRect rect(pRect) ;
	rect.DeflateRect(2,2);
	
	logfont.lfHeight = -rect.Height();
	logfont.lfWidth = 0;
	logfont.lfEscapement = 0;
	logfont.lfOrientation = 0;
	logfont.lfWeight = (bBold) ? FW_BOLD:FW_NORMAL;
	logfont.lfItalic = FALSE;
	logfont.lfUnderline = FALSE;
	logfont.lfStrikeOut = FALSE;
	logfont.lfCharSet = DEFAULT_CHARSET;
	logfont.lfOutPrecision = OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS;
	logfont.lfClipPrecision = CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS;
	logfont.lfQuality = DEFAULT_QUALITY;
	logfont.lfPitchAndFamily = DEFAULT_PITCH;
	
	_tcscpy(logfont.lfFaceName,_T("Marlett"));
	
	MyFont.CreateFontIndirect (&logfont);
	
	CFont* pOldFont = pDC->SelectObject (&MyFont); 
	int OldMode = pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT);  
	
	pDC->DrawText (&Sign,1,rect,DT_CENTER|DT_SINGLELINE);
	
	pDC->SetBkMode(OldMode);
	pDC->SelectObject(pOldFont);
}

Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

karhong16-Dec-08 23:21

karhong

16-Dec-08 23:21

Hi Iain, Thanks for your reply.

But what u showed are the example of change the font as well as its itallic/bold and draw the text based on the fonts

Correct if i'm wrong towards the code you're trying to show

Regards,
KH

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Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer16-Dec-08 23:43

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

16-Dec-08 23:43

karhong wrote:
Correct if i'm wrong

It'll be a pleasure. (cue evil laugh)

What is does is to temporarily change the font to Marlett, and then draw one of the characters in a particular place. It is then a good citizen and restores the font to it's previous state. If this is not clear, learn it fast, as you should be doing the same whenever you change the state of a DC.

Out of curiosity, I loaded Marlett into charmap. It's a not-real font, with lots of useful characters, like the min / max / etc bits that windows uses in the top right of your windows. Etc. One of those characters (look at the comments in the pasted code) is a check mark / tick.

Cunning Mr Podetti!

Iain.

Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

Randor 17-Dec-08 0:03

Randor

17-Dec-08 0:03

Marlett is not a standard Windows font on all Microsoft operating systems and may not exist on the client computer. I would not recommend this hackish way of drawing a checkmark at all.

Standard Window Fonts[^]

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Re: checkmark/icon in submenu[owner draw menu]

Code-o-mat16-Dec-08 23:12

Code-o-mat

16-Dec-08 23:12

How did you try?

> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <

what is meant by Registration script? what is use of this file and how to create this file?

puppya16-Dec-08 21:44

puppya

16-Dec-08 21:44

thanks

Re: what is meant by Registration script? what is use of this file and how to create this file?

CPallini16-Dec-08 21:58

CPallini

16-Dec-08 21:58

Do you know about Google?
Do you know about forum posting guidelines?
Smile | :)

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
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Re: what is meant by Registration script? what is use of this file and how to create this file?

puppya16-Dec-08 22:21

puppya

16-Dec-08 22:21

hey i know google v well, ok?
i dont have any idea abt forum posting guidelines.
i posted this question so that i may get some demo or samples from codeproject.
anyway thanks

Re: what is meant by Registration script? what is use of this file and how to create this file?

CPallini16-Dec-08 22:50

CPallini

16-Dec-08 22:50

hemannu wrote:
hey i know google v well, ok?

Then you may take advantage of it, OK?

hemannu wrote:
i dont have any idea abt forum posting guidelines.

This is bad, please read Chris Maunder's How to get an answer to your question^.

hemannu wrote:
i posted this question so that i may get some demo or samples from codeproject.

The CodeProject's article search engine is another valuable resource you should be aware of.

hemannu wrote:
anyway thanks

Anyway, you're welcome.
Smile | :)

Re: what is meant by Registration script? what is use of this file and how to create this file?

David Crow17-Dec-08 3:16

David Crow

17-Dec-08 3:16

Sounds like a PHP thing.

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unselect a row in list control(MFC)

akira3216-Dec-08 20:39

akira32

16-Dec-08 20:39

How to unselect a row in list control by using the code to control?
How to write the code to unselect a row in list control?

Re: unselect a row in list control(MFC)

Hamid_RT16-Dec-08 20:44

Hamid_RT

16-Dec-08 20:44

select or unselect?

Of one Essence is the human race
thus has Creation put the base
One Limb impacted is sufficient
For all Others to feel the Mace
(Saadi )

Re: unselect a row in list control(MFC)

akira3216-Dec-08 21:57

akira32

16-Dec-08 21:57

unselect the selected item (by clicking the item) in list control
My list control is fullrowselect(must use the attribute) and I set certain columns to be colorful background by using the color dialog.
If I select the color in the color dialog, and then the item will be automatically selected. I cannot see the color of the select item, becuase the item is selected and shows in hightlught. So I want to unselect the item after I select the color.

Re: unselect a row in list control(MFC)

Jijo.Raj16-Dec-08 21:01

Jijo.Raj

16-Dec-08 21:01

Please check this thread[^].

Regards,
Jijo.

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