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I went to lunch and came back, with a new idea, so I deleted the stuff I wrote, and will try to create a some sort of dialog box in the main.cpp.
I have a status bar, but haven't figured out what to put in it, or how to access it.
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I thought it would be a good lesson for to learn how create various windows, and at the time, I was thinking in consumer mode. The progress bar looks very difficult for me now, so I will just create a message or popup window saying that the service is starting or stopping.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to skip ahead to the next task, which is trying to figure out how to delete text I made with drawtext.
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jkirkerx wrote: The progress bar looks very difficult for me now
I would suggest you look a bit harder. This is quite an easy control to implement and all the hard work of painting the bar is done for you; all you have to do is set the limits and update the amount completed from time to time. I'm sure if you do an article search here on CodeProject you will find some sample code to help you.
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Or perhaps I will just trip over it by accident, Just Joking, and I like the motivational push forward you gave me. Actually after a complete day of failure or experimenting, Things are clearer for me now in the c++ windows world.
I went on to the next project, some sort of Label control in c++, and found that I can use CreateWindow to make a Label, Textbox, ComboBox, and a Progress Bar.
So I replaced my Drawtext and created a STATIC in the same place, and I will make a progress bar under it.
Since I painted by background white, I need to figure out how to paint the Label and Progress background white as well.
txt_Website_Default_Status = CreateWindow(TEXT("STATIC"), TEXT("Press Next to begin the programming"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | SS_LEFT,
winWidth - 300,
winHeight - 250,
275, 20, hWebsite_Default, (HMENU)IDC_WEBSITE_DEFAULT_LABEL, GetModuleHandle(NULL), 0
);
SendMessage(txt_Website_Default_Status, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hFont_Label, FALSE);
ShowWindow(txt_Website_Default_Status, SW_SHOW);
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jkirkerx wrote: I need to figure out how to paint the Label and Progress background white as well.
I am not certain, but I think you have to use Subclassing[^] in order to do that.
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I ended up adding this to the WndProc, Looks like it paints the background on STATIC.
Yesterday was a big day, I learned how to create controls, and handle them during the wizard process, in which the window updates with progress status text and the progress bar.
Today I will try to figure out how to paint the progress bar to the default theme.
case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
SetBkMode(hdcStatic, TRANSPARENT);
return (LONG)hbrBackground_White;
break;
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Good catch, I had forgotten about that message.
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Hi ,
I am trying to get IP Address from an IP Control using below code. But I am getting an IP Address in Reverse Order , like if my IP Contrl has 123.45.67.89 , then inet_ntoa () method return address as 89.67.45.123. Can you provide any information on how to get IP Address from IP Control.
DWORD dwIPAddress ;
::SendMessage (hwndIPAddress,IPM_GETADDRESS,0, (LPARAM) (LPDWORD) &dwIPAddress ) ;
struct in_addr addr;
addr.S_un .S_addr = (ULONG)dwIPAddress ;
char *IPAddres = new char[9] ;
IPAddres = inet_ntoa (addr) ;
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DWORD dwIPAddress = 0;
::SendMessage (hwndIPAddress, IPM_GETADDRESS, 0, (LPARAM)&dwIPAddress);
struct in_addr addr;
addr.S_un.S_addr = (ULONG)dwIPAddress ;
char IPAddress[16] ;
sprintf(IPAddress, "%d.%d.%d.%d", addr.S_un.s_b1, addr.S_un.s_b2, addr.S_un.s_b3, addr.S_un.s_b4);
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Thanks you suparman....
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htonl() converts an IPv4 address in host byte order (e.g. mac or pc format) to the IPv4 address in network byte order.
inet_ntoa() converts an (Ipv4) Internet network address into an ASCII string.
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We know that MFC does not have Good UI controls. I am searching for a UI library either free or paid library(paid should have few days trial license so that I can test the performance).
My application is a Trading application so UI library must be fast and stable(No memory leaks). There will be immediate text updates, chart updates(LineCharts, bar, graphs), market-watch updates which show prices of shares and other details whith change of twice, thrice or sometimes 10times in a second.
Let me know if any other details are needed.
Thanks,
Rahul Kulshreshtha
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I would prefer Qt Library[^]
You talk about Being HUMAN. I have it in my name
AnsHUMAN
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Yes QtGui on Linux.
I's so easy to learn , like so:
#include <QtGui>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QLabel label("Hello, world!");
label.show();
return app.exec();
}
more here
Why even use windows? Wall street trading systems all use Red Hat/SUSE.
Windows is mostly relegated to the back office, Windows typically has larger latency times than that of Linux.
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My application is already ready for windows platforms, now I am tweaking the things and changing UI to catch more peoples. So I am bound to windows and Visual Studio 
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I had a little experience with QT, but I don't know if it has UI controls which I need. Can you suggest a website for that?
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Well! The link I shared had some forward links to the examples for using the Qt Lib.
You talk about Being HUMAN. I have it in my name
AnsHUMAN
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rahul.kulshreshtha wrote: know that MFC does not have Good UI controls.
I don't know this. why do you believe it is so ?
In my experience, most "generic" 3rd party UI kit turn out to be more pain than necessary and become hell to support after a few years.
I find that MFC (with the new-ish improvements) will satisfy 95% of our development need; the rest of our need will be filled by specialized controls (most of the time home-made)
Watched code never compiles.
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In the time I worked with MFC I gathered a lot of painful memories stemming from bad documentation*, undefined behaviour, and applications silently breaking upon OS updates. I happily haven't been actively working with it for years now, but the API is still horrible and anything but what a clean, modern OO API should be. Who in his right mind would design an OO interface that requires you to fiddle apart some obscure parameter into several parts? (LPARAM anyone?)
I've been working with XT Toolkit Pro and it's a much more modern and consistent API. It does offer better UI components too, but of course that's an IMHO.
True, nothing prevents you to keep using an outdated GUI API if it fulfills your needs. The question is if it still fulfills your client's needs! Besides, I doubt that MS will continue to put any more work into MFC once W8 and Metro are out. So if you're starting on a new project aimed at more than just your personal needs, using MFC is certainly not the best way to go.
* P.S.: I have to admit that the MFC online documentation has quite improved, though I find the process of retrieveing a specific bit of information from MSDN a lot more time consuming than it used to be in the days of .hlp files.
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Thanks, I will check out XT toolkit also
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Thanks I will check out these.
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Implement the GUI in .NET that can communicate with whatever backend.
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Thanks all for answering,
After going through the suggestions suggested by all of you. I shortlisted 3 libraries which I can use.
1. BCG UI library
2. CodeJock's XtToolkit Pro
3. Prof-UIs
But still one component is missing, I am also looking for a Grid in which cells can be formatted as "Conditional Formating -> Data bars" similar to excel 2007
I want something similar to this
Example 1
Example 2
Thanks,
Rahul
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