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Re: Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

C^hris L^osinger7-Oct-10 1:13

7-Oct-10 1:13

not really a lot of detail there.

a file search of the latest LibTiffs (3.9.4 and 4.0.0 b6) turns up three instances of the word "layer", none of which refer to Photoshop-style image layers - they refer to API layers, etc..

if there is layer support in TIFF, it must be very new, and so is unlikely to be what Photoshop has been using for years.

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Change the content of a tooltip

Schehaider_Aymen4-Oct-10 10:45

Schehaider_Aymen

4-Oct-10 10:45

Hi all,

i was looking for a way to change the tooltip of the toolbar's buttons !! i tried to look for it on google but there is nothing versatile.
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and an MFC project !!

Thank you

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Re: Change the content of a tooltip

LunaticFringe4-Oct-10 12:01

LunaticFringe

4-Oct-10 12:01

I believe you would want to send TTM_DELTOOL message to your existing tooltip control to delete the current text, followed by a TTM_ADDTOOL message with the new text. Alternatively, I think you can use TTM_SETTOOLINFO to modify the text of an existing tooltip - that may be simpler.

The following snippet shows the syntax for TTM_ADDTOOL and may point you in the right direction, although the code is WTL instead of MFC:

TOOLINFO info;
ZeroMemory(&info, sizeof(TOOLINFO));

info.cbSize = sizeof(TOOLINFO);
info.hinst = _Module.get_m_hInst();
info.uFlags = ( TTF_CENTERTIP | TTF_ABSOLUTE);
info.lpszText = _T("Your new text here.");

m_Toolbar.GetItemRect(m_Toolbar.CommandToIndex(ID_TOOLBAR_BUTTON_TO_CHANGE ), &info.rect);
info.hwnd = m_Toolbar.m_hWnd;
info.uId = ID_TOOLBAR_BUTTON_TO_CHANGE;

::SendMessage(tt, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, (LPARAM)&info);// tt is the HWND of the tooltip control

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OnInitialUpdate

john56324-Oct-10 6:33

john5632

4-Oct-10 6:33

I drived a class from CFormView. But If I override OnInitUpdate it is not executed in my drived class.
Could you help me why this is happening?

Re: OnInitialUpdate

josda10004-Oct-10 6:38

josda1000

4-Oct-10 6:38

Can you give us a sample of the OnInitUpdate function? We can't really make any educated guesses without any clues.

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Re: OnInitialUpdate

David Crow4-Oct-10 7:31

David Crow

4-Oct-10 7:31

john5632 wrote:
But If I override OnInitUpdate it is not executed in my drived class.

How are you verifying this?

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Re: OnInitialUpdate

Schehaider_Aymen4-Oct-10 10:47

Schehaider_Aymen

4-Oct-10 10:47

may be u forgot to attach the ID of the form in the .H classe file !!
is the form loaded or no ? and what kinf of errors do u ve got ?

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Redirect Message Box Messages,

Joschwenk6664-Oct-10 5:00

Joschwenk666

4-Oct-10 5:00

Hallo,

I have a Windows Service written in Visual C++. It`s a loop that does certain things, and starts from the beginning after waiting a few seconds.

My problem is, that when there occurs an error in the code, a messagebox pops up. And the code is not executed anymore, because you have to click on "ok" first. The messagebox is showed from some external library functions, so I can`t go to the source code.

Is there any possibility to redirect all message boxes to a logfile or something like that, and continue executing the program without a click by the user?

Thank you!

Re: Redirect Message Box Messages,

Code-o-mat4-Oct-10 9:23

Code-o-mat

4-Oct-10 9:23

Well, first of all, if there are errors popping up, shouldn't you rather try to figure out what causes them and try to fix it, besides, maybe the user has to/wants to know about these problems, so "supressing" message boxes might not be a good idea. Depending on how the message boxes are displayed, i can think of a possible way to do what you want if you insist.

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Re: Redirect Message Box Messages,

Sameerkumar Namdeo4-Oct-10 22:27

Sameerkumar Namdeo

4-Oct-10 22:27

Code-o-mat wrote:
i can think of a possible way to do what you want

Please show how can the ::MessageBox() can be suppressed and corresponding message be directed to some file.

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Re: Redirect Message Box Messages,

Code-o-mat5-Oct-10 23:23

Code-o-mat

5-Oct-10 23:23

Sorry for the late answer, wasn!t near net access for a day. So, you could try hooking the MessageBoxA and/or MessageBoxW API functions and provide your own implementations to write to a log file. I don't know what you are actually doing so i can't really judge but i still don't think supressing message boxes intended for the user is a BAD IDEA. Anyways, for api hooking, see API hooking revealed[^] here on Code Project.

Re: Redirect Message Box Messages,

Joschwenk6666-Oct-10 2:49

Joschwenk666

6-Oct-10 2:49

Thank you for the Link, I will try this.

As I described i`m working at a Windows Service. It is a loop that changes things in a database and send mails and things like that, so there is no user in front of the computer at all, and when a message box pops up, the whole service stops, and mails are not sent anymore. So this service has to continue running when an error occurs. I just want the error in a logfile to see what happened and fix it later.

Re: Redirect Message Box Messages,

Code-o-mat6-Oct-10 2:52

Code-o-mat

6-Oct-10 2:52

I see, with no user at the box it makes more sense. Tell me if you run into trouble with the hooking and i will help if i can.

Obtaining the thread id of the window which have keyboard focus

emmmatty14-Oct-10 2:15

emmmatty1

4-Oct-10 2:15

Hi Folks,

Please tell me how can i obtain the thread id of the window/application which have keyboard focus?

Regards,
John.

Re: Obtaining the thread id of the window which have keyboard focus

bleedingfingers4-Oct-10 2:26

bleedingfingers

4-Oct-10 2:26

Use GetForegroundWindow() and GetWindowThreadProcessId (...).

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double buffering

aangerma4-Oct-10 1:18

aangerma

4-Oct-10 1:18

Hello,
I have an owner-draw listBox that while updating its flicks, I tried the solution of treating the event OnEraseBkgnd its didn't work, so I tried the other posibility - double buffering

void CIconListBox::DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDrawItemStruct)
{
pDC = CDC::FromHandle(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC);
HDC memDC1 = CreateCompatibleDC(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC);
HBITMAP hMemBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC,
scrW, scrH);
HBITMAP hOldBmp = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(memDC1, hMemBmp);
CDC *memDC=CDC::FromHandle(memDC1);
.
.
if(m_pImgClose)
m_pImgClose->Draw(memDC,0,pt1,ILD_NORMAL);
.
.
memDC->DrawText(line.word[1].str, -1, &rText, DT_LEFT);
.
.
SetTextColor(memDC1,oldcolor);
.
.
BitBlt(lpDrawItemStruct->hDC, 0, 0, scrW, scrH, memDC1, 0, 0,
SRCCOPY);
SelectObject(memDC1, hOldBmp);
DeleteObject(hMemBmp);
DeleteDC(memDC1);
}
for some resone its doing the background black instead of white as it was before the double buffer.
if anyone know what is my problem ,I would be very greatfull for him.

Re: double buffering

Sauro Viti4-Oct-10 2:44

Sauro Viti

4-Oct-10 2:44

Before drawing on your memory device context, have you ever filled its background color? The CreateCompatibleBitmap produce a bitmap initially black, then you need to fill it with the color you want, e.g. using the CDC::FillSolidRect (MFC)[^] API.

Re: double buffering

aangerma4-Oct-10 3:20

aangerma

4-Oct-10 3:20

thank you very much its solved my problem

Error Message

ganesh_IT3-Oct-10 21:54

ganesh_IT

3-Oct-10 21:54

Hi Guys, I am developing a MFC application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, i have a strange error, i dont know how to solve it, if any one know pls tell me the reason..

Error 1 general error c101008a: Failed to save the updated manifest to the file ".\Debug\Account Pro.exe.embed.manifest". The parameter is incorrect. mt.exe

Re: Error Message

Richard MacCutchan3-Oct-10 22:27

Richard MacCutchan

3-Oct-10 22:27

I regularly see the same error with Visual C++ 2010 Express, but a rebuild always fixes it. I suspect some timing issues in the build process that causes mt.exe to fail. I have not researched the solution since it is always recoverable.

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Re: Error Message

Sauro Viti3-Oct-10 23:39

Sauro Viti

3-Oct-10 23:39

I experienced too the same issue. Searching the Internet, I found an explaination of it: the build process basically moves through 3 steps:

compiling
linking
embedding manifest

After the linking stage, you have a new exe file on your output folder, and the Manifest Tool (mt.exe) is called on it to embed the application manifest. If you have an AntiVirus that perform real-time scanning, is possible that immediately after the linking stage and before that the Manifest Tool gets access to the executable file, it find the new executable and lock the file to scan it for viruses; in that case, the Manifest Tool gets the file locked for writing and fails.

Re: Error Message

Richard MacCutchan4-Oct-10 0:48

Richard MacCutchan

4-Oct-10 0:48

An interesting analysis; but I wonder why it only ever affects the manifest builder and never the compiler, linker or any other program I run?

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Re: Error Message

Sauro Viti4-Oct-10 1:15

Sauro Viti

4-Oct-10 1:15

It is not so strange for me: let's assume that the AntiVirus real-time scanner only scan executable files... Then the compiler could not be affected, because it gets source files and produces object files; the linker could not be affected because it gets object files and produce an executable file, but the AntiVirus is not able to scan the created executable until the linker closes the file. Then it seems that the only one tool that could be affected is the Manifest Tool as it gets an executable file that already exists and open it to modify its content.

Anyway, this is the only one explaination that I found, but I'm not sure that it's correct nor that it could be the only one reason for the Manifest Tool to fail... I found too something about this issue on the official technical blog of the VC++ team, and I wonder that they simply said: "after our tests, we was not able to reproduce the issue"

Re: Error Message

Richard MacCutchan4-Oct-10 3:16

Richard MacCutchan

4-Oct-10 3:16

Yes, that makes sense, I may try modifying my anti virus settings to see if it has any effect.

Thanks for your comments.

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Set ID at RunTIme

john56323-Oct-10 21:23

john5632

3-Oct-10 21:23

Hi,

How to set control ID at runtime?

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