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Cannot size window using STARTUPINFO

1-Feb-06 16:34

Visual studio comes with a tool called "nmake".

Steve

Re: makefile

devvvy1-Feb-06 16:42

devvvy

1-Feb-06 16:42

Thanks just tried it.

elephantstar1-Feb-06 12:19

elephantstar

1-Feb-06 12:19

I would like my newly window to open up with the given sizes. The following code maximizes the window when it gets created. Why doesn't it work? Thanks!

STARTUPINFO stStartUpInfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pProcessInfo;

memset(&stStartUpInfo, 0, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
stStartUpInfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
stStartUpInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESIZE;

CreateProcess(NULL, CmdLine, NULL, NULL, FALSE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
NULL, NULL, &stStartUpInfo, &pProcessInfo);

Stephen Hewitt1-Feb-06 13:13

1-Feb-06 13:13

Look like the following is missing:
stStartUpInfo.wShowWindow = SW_MAXIMIZE;

Your code looks like it would show the window hidden as it memsets the struct to zero and 0 is SW_HIDE.

Steve

elephantstar1-Feb-06 14:06

elephantstar

1-Feb-06 14:06

The window does show up but it's maximized. That's not what I want. I want the window size to be set to what I defined for dwXSize and dwYSize .

Stephen Hewitt1-Feb-06 14:14

1-Feb-06 14:14

Try this:

STARTUPINFO si;
ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si));
si.cb sizeof(si);
si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW | STARTF_USEPOSITION | STARTF_USESIZE;
si.wShowWindow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;
si.dwX = 0;
si.dwY = 0;
si.dwXSize = 100;
si.dwYSize = 100;

Steve

elephantstar2-Feb-06 6:07

elephantstar

2-Feb-06 6:07

It still maximizes the window. Ryan (below) mentioned that application can ignore the STARTUPINFO struct if it wants to. So is there no way around this?

Stephen Hewitt2-Feb-06 11:20

2-Feb-06 11:20

Before I started to look for ways around it I would verify the code with notepad (an application that respects it, I think) or something. I can't think of any easy way around it. You could install a WM_CBT hook with the SetWindowsHookEx API but this would involve setting a global hook (and thus creating a DLL and taking care that it doesn't crash or effect other applications).

Steve

How to span columns in CListCtrl

Ryan Binns1-Feb-06 17:30

Ryan Binns

1-Feb-06 17:30

An application is free to ignore the values in the STARTUPINFO structure if it wants to.

Ryan

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Eric Jacobsen1-Feb-06 10:10

1-Feb-06 10:10

My application scrolls data in real-time over several columns using a CListCtrl (MSVC++ 6.0). I'd like to occasionally put a user-message that takes up the entire row, spanning all the columns in the table. The MFC Grid Control doesn't seem to have this feature (hint hint).

Does anyone know if this has been done? Thanks!
Eric

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David Crow1-Feb-06 10:57

David Crow

1-Feb-06 10:57

Eric Jacobsen wrote:
The MFC Grid Control doesn't seem to have this feature (hint hint).

Which implies that a list control certainly doesn't!

Can you embed an Excel sheet into the application?

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Eric Jacobsen1-Feb-06 17:43

1-Feb-06 17:43

Yes, the Excel functionality is just what I'm thinking of, but I think embedding an Excel sheet would probably be overkill

Stephen Hewitt1-Feb-06 12:26

1-Feb-06 12:26

You could subclass the control and put code in to draw to text manually (just the "full line" text).

Steve

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Shog⁹1-Feb-06 15:50

Shog⁹

1-Feb-06 15:50

It's not supported by the control directly, but it isn't terribly difficult.
Review the various custom draw articles in the CListCtrl section here on CP - you want to intercept drawing for a specific row, and draw it yourself.

Eric Jacobsen1-Feb-06 17:45

1-Feb-06 17:45

This is what I'm looking into now. I'm stumbling a little on the issue of how to derive from CListView because CListView HAS A CListCtrl, but supposedly can act as if it IS A CListCtrl. Thanks for the response...

Ryan Binns1-Feb-06 17:47

Ryan Binns

1-Feb-06 17:47

Actually, CListView IS a CListCtrl. If you look at the implementation of GetListCtrl(), it merely does

return (*(CListCtrl*)this);

or something similar.

Ryan

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Owner drawn1-Feb-06 17:51

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1-Feb-06 17:51

This is news to me...Thanks. Big Grin | :-D

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Michael Dunn1-Feb-06 20:33

Michael Dunn

1-Feb-06 20:33

Use custom draw to draw whatever you want in your user-message rows. See: Neat Stuff to do in List Controls Using Custom Draw[^]

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Eric Jacobsen2-Feb-06 7:04

2-Feb-06 7:04

Thanks Mike,
I had scanned your article and for some reason didn't think it was what I needed.

It is EXACTLY what I needed, thanks.

Since my derived CListView class IS A CListCtrl apparently, I'm using the ON_NOTIFY_REFLECT version.

Embedding a CString pointer in the items lparam, and using DrawText to draw the string centered in the row. Returning *pResult = CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT to prevent any other drawing in these rows.