list of most recently used files in file menu - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Aqueel18-Apr-06 20:35

18-Apr-06 20:35

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Start your work.
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How to minimize window by clicking task bar?

chybin18-Apr-06 19:28

chybin

18-Apr-06 19:28

My dialog only can be restored when clicking task bar icon,not be minimized.How to minimize it through click task bar?

LoadBitmap() in Vista

chenxiujie18-Apr-06 19:27

chenxiujie

18-Apr-06 19:27

Hello, everyone!

I encounter a problem. Running on Vista, when I invoke LoadBitmap()
to load a bitmap, but it doesn't work. Who can tell me the reason?
I run the program with "Administrator" privilege and the Vista version
is CTP Build 5308.

Thank you and best regards.

button control

himuskanhere18-Apr-06 18:10

himuskanhere

18-Apr-06 18:10

hi friends,
plz tell me how to draw a color button in dialog based application.
and how to add bitmap ona button.
thanks in advance.
bye
Cool | :cool:

Rahul here

Re: button control

_AnsHUMAN_ 18-Apr-06 18:15

_AnsHUMAN_

18-Apr-06 18:15

you can create a bitmap button and then set the bitmap on that button after changing the properties of that button to owner draw

CBitmapButton mybutton;
mybutton.LoadBitmaps(IDB_MYBITMAP);
mybutton.SizeToContents();

Vision is Always important and so is your ATTITUDE.

Wishes.

Anshuman Dandekar

Re: button control

Hamid_RT18-Apr-06 18:53

Hamid_RT

18-Apr-06 18:53

you can use derived CButton and use WM_DRAWITEM and (owner draw from false to true in propery window)
Bitmap use SetBitmap of course set in property window bitmap from false to true

PerfMon

Ed K18-Apr-06 16:18

Ed K

18-Apr-06 16:18

Anyone ever added PerfMon activex control to a dialog here?? Any sample code?

ed

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list of most recently used files in file menu

daniel madden18-Apr-06 10:28

daniel madden

18-Apr-06 10:28

Hi,

I am using LoadProfileSettings(5) in InitInstance to open
the 5 most recently used files when my application is loaded
and AddToRecentFilename(szLoadFilename) to update the MRU list
with the last file loaded.

It all works fine except it abbreviates the full file path
e.g. c:\my documents\my long directory\my file.doc becomes c:\my documents\...my file.doc

Is there a way please of preventing it from abbreviating the full file path so I
get c:\my documents\my long directory\my file.doc instead of
c:\my documents\...my file.doc

Thanks,
Daniel

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

David Crow18-Apr-06 10:32

David Crow

18-Apr-06 10:32

daniel madden wrote:
It all works fine except it abbreviates the full file path
e.g. c:\my documents\my long directory\my file.doc becomes c:\my documents\...my file.doc

Where is this abbreviated path shown?

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

daniel madden18-Apr-06 22:12

daniel madden

18-Apr-06 22:12

Hi David,

c:\my documents\my long directory\my file.doc was a simple example that gets an abreviated path of
c:\my documents\...my file.doc. Thererefore c:\my documents\... is the abbreviated path of c:\my documents\my long directory\.

Daniel

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

David Crow19-Apr-06 2:29

David Crow

19-Apr-06 2:29

I understood all that. My question was where is this path shown?

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

daniel madden19-Apr-06 2:40

daniel madden

19-Apr-06 2:40

Ok - sorry the path is shown at the bottom of the File Menu where it usually shows the most recently used files.

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer18-Apr-06 10:45

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

18-Apr-06 10:45

It does that so you don't end up with menus across the screen.

To override this you'll need to search for OnInitMenu in the MFC sources. Good luck, it gets quite knotty down there...

Iain.

Re: list of most recently used files in file menu

daniel madden19-Apr-06 1:40

daniel madden

19-Apr-06 1:40

thanks for the suggestion Iain. It does indeed get quite knotty down there.

For now, I have a simple workaround of setting the CRecentFileList's member variable m_nMaxDisplayLength to show longer length filenames and paths,

Cheers,
Daniel

LPWS to std::string

big_denny_20018-Apr-06 9:32

big_denny_200

18-Apr-06 9:32

hi all

I have a LPWSTR variable and want to copy it's contents to std::string variable is it possible?

if yes how ?

thanks.

-- modified at 15:32 Tuesday 18th April, 2006

Re: LPWS to std::string

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer18-Apr-06 10:15

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

18-Apr-06 10:15

As I remember, std:string is for char *s, so you need to convert from unicode.

std::string Conv (LPWSTR szWide)
{
    USES_CONVERSION;
    std::string s;
    s = W2A(szWide);
    return s;
}

or use std::wstring instead. unicode has its place!

Iain.

Re: LPWS to std::string

Mila02519-Apr-06 1:18

Mila025

19-Apr-06 1:18

one line way:

WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, lpWideCharStr, -1, (LPSTR) sShare.c_str(), BUFFER_SIZE, NULL, NULL );

-----------
Mila

Exit when press "Enter" ?

Surivevoli18-Apr-06 9:06

Surivevoli

18-Apr-06 9:06

I have a Application in form "Dialog".
on that there are some control like :
"Static", "Edit", "Rich Edit"...
When i click left mouse on that, then press return
("Enter" key on keyboard) and the Application disappear
as if i click "Close".
What's happened ?
Why ???
Could you help me ???

Re: Exit when press "Enter" ?

Rage18-Apr-06 9:11

Rage

18-Apr-06 9:11

See this post[^]. Seems like everybody has the same problem, today Smile | :)

.

~RaGE();

Re: Exit when press "Enter" ?

Hamid_RT18-Apr-06 18:50

Hamid_RT

18-Apr-06 18:50

Hi Surivevoli
maybe it is some helpful to you

http://bobmoore.mvps.org/Win32/w32tip41.htm

Binary inputs

CPP91118-Apr-06 9:00

CPP911

18-Apr-06 9:00

Hi

I found in some postings the data types "BYTE" and "DWORD". Can someone tell me in what library they can be found if any?

Another question, the posting says BYTE b=50; but if we have a stream of binary digits in a file, is there an easy command to input every 32 (or k bits in general) into a variable for further processing or will i have to use a pointer and keep track of the number of bits already inputed and convert it step by step to a decimal integer (by adding 2^m each time...)?

Thanks

Re: Binary inputs

Rage18-Apr-06 9:09

Rage

18-Apr-06 9:09

A BYTE is an unsigned 8bit value.
A DWORD is an unsigned 32bit value.

Should be defined in <windows.h>

CPP911 wrote:
Another question, the posting says BYTE b=50; but if we have a stream of binary digits in a file, is there an easy command to input every 32 (or k bits in general) into a variable for further processing or will i have to use a pointer and keep track of the number of bits already inputed and convert it step by step to a decimal integer (by adding 2^m each time...)?

fread ?
CFile::Read ?

~RaGE();

Re: Binary inputs

David Crow18-Apr-06 9:37

David Crow

18-Apr-06 9:37

CPP911 wrote:
I found in some postings the data types "BYTE" and "DWORD". Can someone tell me in what library they can be found if any?

You can find them in windef.h.

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

Re: Binary inputs

Stephen Hewitt18-Apr-06 15:34

Stephen Hewitt

18-Apr-06 15:34

They are defined in <windef.h> but you only need to include <windows.h> if you want to use them as it includes <windef.h>.

Steve

Converting numbers

Waldermort18-Apr-06 8:49

Waldermort

18-Apr-06 8:49

Hi all,

I have found myself totaly confused yet again. I need to convert a 32bit int to a double. Well the docs say "an IEEE 754 floating-point value (64bit double precision). It then goes on to demonstarte the before and after (without any code).

0x3FF00000 -> (Decoded value) 0x3FF0000000000000 -> (Result) 1.0 'decimal'

I have managed to find some examples on the net, but unfortunatly none of them are in C/C++. Here is a C# method:

double ToDouble(int n){
    byte[] doubleBytes = new byte[8];
    byte[] uintBytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(n);
    Array.Copy(uintBytes, 0, doubleBytes, doubleBytes.Length - uintBytes.Length, uintBytes.Length);
    return BitConverter.ToDouble(doubleBytes, 0);
}

I hope somebody can help me with the answer, I am totaly stuck. Thankyou.

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