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Dave Regan wrote:

Paul DiLascia caption project

Dave Regan wrote:

How does Windows handle the tooltips, it seems to be by some arcane process

Dave Regan wrote:

and to respond correcly to button presses

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whizano wrote:

so i spawn a thread

whizano wrote:

Then it doModals

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class CMyDlg 
{
...
CButton* m_pButton;
};

BOOL CMyDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
...
CRect rtWnd(10,10,210,32);
m_pButton = new CButton();
m_pButton->Create(_T("Test"), BS_PUSHBUTTON | WS_VISIBLE, rtWnd, this, 1000);
return TRUE;
}

class CMyDlg 
{
...
CButton* m_pButton;
afx_msg void OnButtonClicked(UINT uiDlgCtrlId);
};

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP
...
ON_CONTROL_RANGE(BN_CLICKED,1000,1099,&CWndScriptDlg::OnButtonClicked)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

void CWndScriptDlg::OnButtonClicked(UINT uiDlgCtrlId)
{
  AfxMessageBox(_T("Hello"));
}

class CMyDlg 
{
...
CButton* m_pButton;
CEdit* m_pEdit;
afx_msg void OnButtonClicked(UINT uiDlgCtrlId);
};

BOOL CMyDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
...
CRect rtWnd(10,10,210,32);
m_pButton = new CButton();
m_pButton->Create(_T("Test"), BS_PUSHBUTTON | WS_VISIBLE, rtWnd, this, 1000);
// new location
rtWnd =  CRect(10,110,210,130);
m_pEdit = new CEdit();
m_pEdit->Create(WS_BORDER | WS_VISIBLE, rtWnd, this, 1101);
// let the window have the same font as the dialog
m_pEdit->SetFont(GetFont());
return TRUE;
}

void CWndScriptDlg::OnButtonClicked(UINT uiDlgCtrlId)
{
// variable to store the data in
int iValue = 0;

// create a CDataExchange object
// UpdateData();

CDataExchange dx(this, true);
DDX_Text(&dx, m_pEdit->GetDlgCtrlID(), iValue);

iValue += 2;

// putthe data back to the dialog
// UpdateData(FALSE);
dx.m_bSaveAndValidate = false;
DDX_Text(&dx, m_pEdit->GetDlgCtrlID(), iValue);
}

LPTSTR pszFileText;//this is the buffer

//....Then somewhere else where you are reading in the file content

DWORD dwFileSize;

//reading the file size
dwFileSize = ::GetFileSize(hFile, NULL);

if(dwFileSize != INVALID_FILE_SIZE)
{
   LPTSTR pszFileText;

   //Take note you are allocating memory here
   HGLOBAL hGlobal = ::GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);

   //lock memory
   pszFileText = (LPTSTR)::GlobalLock(hGlobal);
   if(pszFileText != NULL)
   {
      DWORD dwRead;
      if(::ReadFile(hFile, pszFileText, dwFileSize, &dwRead, NULL))
        ;
      //... rest of the code
   }
   //... if you don't need the contents of the file any more do this

   //open the lock :)
   ::GlobalUnlock(hGlobal);

   //free memory allocated
   ::GlobalFree(hGlobal);
}

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char* buffer;

int fileSize = WhateverToGetFileSize();

buffer = new char[fileSize];

DoStuffWithBuffer(buffer);

delete[] buffer;