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Tom Archer11-Jun-05 13:55

11-Jun-05 13:55

Did you init the richedit control with AfxInitRichEdit2()?

Tom Archer11-Jun-05 13:58

11-Jun-05 13:58

Depending on the version of the richedit control you're using:
AfxInitRichEdit[^]
AfxInitRichEdit2[^]

Trollslayer12-Jun-05 10:05

Trollslayer

12-Jun-05 10:05

Tom,
thanks, I put AfxInitRichEdit() in InitInstance() and it works.

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Tom Archer12-Jun-05 13:36

Strange edit control problem

12-Jun-05 13:36

You're very welcome, Tigress. - K loves the nick, by the way Smile | :)

Alexander ^M.,11-Jun-05 11:38

Alexander ^M.,

11-Jun-05 11:38

Hi everyone,
I'm creating an edit box as child window of a list view ctrl to edit a subitem's text. When the edit box is created, it is invisible, although it has the WS_VISIBLE style set... I have to press some key to change the text of the edit box to make it visible.
What is wrong?

Regards,
Alex

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

Re: Strange edit control problem

neliocc11-Jun-05 12:10

Re: Strange edit control problem

11-Jun-05 12:10

Add the WS_BORDER style, debug the CreateWindow function, if no error succed, and the problem persist, try using ShowWindow function.

Alexander ^M.,11-Jun-05 22:58

Alexander ^M.,

11-Jun-05 22:58

I did, but that didn't change anything Frown | :(

CreateWindow does succeed, but the control is still hidden until I press a button to change it's text.

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

Re: Strange edit control problem

eli1502197911-Jun-05 23:47

eli15021979

11-Jun-05 23:47

Hi,
Try the SetWindowPos() function,and set its position on top of your listbox:

YourEditBox.SetWindowPos(&CWnd::wndBottom, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                         SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);

Regards,
Eli

My aplication name

neliocc11-Jun-05 11:25

11-Jun-05 11:25

Hi everybody.How can i get the entire path of an aplication when its excecuted??. For example, when the user runs my aplication, i want in the WM_CREATE message, call the function GetAppName created by my and get C:\....\myApp.exe

Steve Messer11-Jun-05 12:00

Steve Messer

11-Jun-05 12:00

CString GetExePath()
{
	CString str;
	TCHAR szEXEPath[MAX_PATH];
	
	GetModuleFileName ( NULL, szEXEPath, MAX_PATH );
	
	str = szEXEPath;

	CString s1,s3;

	int pos = str.ReverseFind( '\\' );
	
	CString s2;

	s2 = str.Left( pos+1 );
	return s2;
}

This should get you started.

neliocc11-Jun-05 12:06

11-Jun-05 12:06

Thanks a lot

Steve Messer11-Jun-05 12:08

Steve Messer

11-Jun-05 12:08

No problem good luck coding.

Tom Archer11-Jun-05 12:32

How to request data from URL

11-Jun-05 12:32

While smesser's technique works (using the reversefind), I prefer using the _splithpath so here's an alternative:

TCHAR buff[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(NULL, buff, MAX_PATH);

char drive[2];
char dir[MAX_PATH];
char fname[MAX_PATH]; 
char ext[MAX_PATH];
_splitpath(buff, drive, dir, fname, ext);

Dody_DK11-Jun-05 11:03

Dody_DK

11-Jun-05 11:03

Hey
How to request data from an URL and display this data into an editbox or static text?

thanks in advance

Re: How to request data from URL

Tom Archer11-Jun-05 12:39

Re: How to request data from URL

11-Jun-05 12:39

URLDownloadToFile will download the page to a file. You can then open and display the file
URLDownloadToCacheFile will download the page to a cached file where you can access the data

By the way, I think VC++ MVP Michael Dunn has a really nice article on this site showing how to use the URLDownloadToFile function. You should be able to search and find it easily enough.

Dody_DK11-Jun-05 12:41

Dody_DK

11-Jun-05 12:41

okay thanks alot, I will give it a try....

Start Menu

neliocc11-Jun-05 9:14

11-Jun-05 9:14

Hi everybody.

I want to make an application, that its added to the start menu by itself. If any body can explain me how i can make that, i will be gratefull.

Tom Archer11-Jun-05 9:24

11-Jun-05 9:24

As the Start menu simply displays folder entries, I would imagine that you could simply create an entry in the desired folder. For example, if you wanted to create an entry for the user tomarcher, you would add the entry to the c:\documents and settings\tomarcher\start menu folder. If you open the documents and settings folder you can see all this or if you right click the start menu and select Explore you can easily see where your entries would go.

[EDIT] Note that what I'm saying is a "manual" way of doing things. There might be a specific API for doing this that someone else can share with us.

mark novak11-Jun-05 9:27

mark novak

11-Jun-05 9:27

The start menu itself is just a user directory. Usually C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Start Menu\ but you should call SHGetSpecialFolderLocation with CSIDL_STARTUP, then you can copy a shortcut to this path.

neliocc11-Jun-05 10:01

11-Jun-05 10:01

I read something about IShellLink and IPersistFile. But when i go to save the link, the aplication sends me an AccessDenied error. But i dont know what is the problem.