Re: MessageBox Question - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Giles2-Apr-02 4:07

2-Apr-02 4:07

Anyone have any ideas on how to programmatically convert an Excel file to a Adobe PDF file. I need to automate the proccess, but have a feeling that if I use distiller, I will not be able to specify a file name for it to work without any user inpput, other than triggering the job.

Any ideas?

Giles

Re: Excel to PDF

dlhson2-Apr-02 6:36

dlhson

2-Apr-02 6:36

Don't you want to use Acrobat Writer as a printer to print Excel to PDF?
I have another way: if you can get text from Excel with your code, use PDFLIB4.0 to convert to PDF

Hung Son
A Vietnamese student
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dlhson2001@yahoo.com

Re: Excel to PDF

Giles2-Apr-02 8:26

Giles

2-Apr-02 8:26

dlhson wrote:
Don't you want to use Acrobat Writer as a printer to print Excel to PDF?

You could be write. I have used the print function before, but as I remember, once you print, it pops up with a save as dialog. Or at least I think so. Is there a parammeter you can set from VBA\ via COM, to automate the whole thing. The thing is I need to use the formatting from Excel.

Do you have a link to PDFLIB4.0? I've seen a utility in Perl, to convert a text file to PDF, but I also need the formatting and calculations that I would find easier in Excel.

Thanks,

Giles

MessageBox Question

sriram_mr2-Apr-02 4:13

sriram_mr

2-Apr-02 4:13

Hi All,
Can I change the text of the Cancel button to something else.I hate having a whole new dialog up where I need MessageBox kind of functionality except for the Cancel button text being something else.MessageBoxIndirect also doesnt seem to help me much.
VC 6.0 SDK.
Thanks for your help.
cheers
Sriram M R

Re: MessageBox Question

Navin2-Apr-02 4:24

Navin

2-Apr-02 4:24

I think you'd have to write your own dialog.

However, what woudld be really neat would be a more generic MessageBox type dialog that can be used in these kinds of situations... that'd make a great article, you know... Wink | ;)

recursive adj. See RECURSIVE.

Re: MessageBox Question

Navin2-Apr-02 4:29

Navin

2-Apr-02 4:29

Well, what do you know? There *is* such an article already posted:

TCX Message Box

recursive adj. See RECURSIVE.

Re: MessageBox Question

sriram_mr2-Apr-02 4:34

sriram_mr

2-Apr-02 4:34

Thanks.I had a look at it before.But thats too heavy duty class for my app.
Maybe I will design a small dialog myself................

Cheers and ciao,
Sriram M R

Re: MessageBox Question

Jeremy Falcon2-Apr-02 5:11

Jeremy Falcon

2-Apr-02 5:11

You could install a hook on the message box and capture the WM_SETTEXT message for the child window (cancel button).

Jeremy L. Falcon
"The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'"

[My Latest Article]
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There is a very simple solution..

SeNs2-Apr-02 8:56

SeNs

2-Apr-02 8:56

Use DialogBox to create a modal dialog box.

You can name the buttons whatever you like, and you
only need a few lines of code. For example:

// modal.cpp : Defines the entry point for the application.

#include "stdafx.h"

HINSTANCE hInst;
HWND hDlg;

LRESULT CALLBACK DialogProc(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
switch (message)
{
case WM_INITDIALOG:
{
return TRUE;
}
break;

case WM_COMMAND:
switch(LOWORD(wParam))
{
case IDOK:
{
EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
return TRUE;
}
break;

case IDCANCEL:
{
EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
return TRUE;
}
break;
}
break;
}
return FALSE;
}

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
DialogBox(hInst,(LPCTSTR)IDD_DIALOG1,hDlg,(DLGPROC)DialogProc);
return 0;
}

Of course you need to make a dialog box resource, but this
is easy with the visual editor in MS Visual C++

OFNHookProc

Anthony98872-Apr-02 4:07

Anthony9887

2-Apr-02 4:07

I'm trying to update the ofn.lpstrFile whenever CDN_TYPECHANGE is called from the OFNOTIFY.

Thanks
Tony

Dialogs in MDI app have gray titlebar

Jack Handy2-Apr-02 3:55

Jack Handy

2-Apr-02 3:55

I've inserted a CDialog as a child of an MDI window with the following code:

m_pDlg = new CMyDlg(FromHandle(m_hWndMDIClient));
m_pDlg->Create(IDD_MYDIALOG, FromHandle(m_hWndMDIClient));
m_pDlg->SetFocus();
m_pDlg->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

This works fine however no matter what the title bar stays gray even while I'm actively working inside the dialog.

Any ideas?

-Jack

To an optimist the glass is half full.
To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Re: Dialogs in MDI app have gray titlebar

dlhson2-Apr-02 5:50

dlhson

2-Apr-02 5:50

Where do you declare your m_pDlg ?

Hung Son
A Vietnamese student
i-g.hypermart.net
dlhson2001@yahoo.com

Re: Dialogs in MDI app have gray titlebar

Jack Handy2-Apr-02 11:21

Jack Handy

2-Apr-02 11:21

In my MainFrame.h

-Jack

To an optimist the glass is half full.
To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

MainFrame variabel access in worker thread

Merle Pittman2-Apr-02 3:16

Merle Pittman

2-Apr-02 3:16

I have variables (bools) as member variables in the MainFrame class that I use to keep track of which view is currently active and update menus and such accordingly.

The problem is I need to access one of the view-status variables in a worker thread to determine the correct action that should be taken (buffer data, or output data). I am currently trying to access the MainFrame member like this:

CMainFrame *pMF = (CMainFrame*)::AfxGetMainWnd();
bool bBufferData = pMF->m_bTempDepthCPSView;

However, its causing an access violation. I assume because the AfxGetMainWnd() function cannot return the proper pointer to MainFrame since it is called inside a global worker thread.

Does anyone have a suggestion to get around this??

Thanks

Re: MainFrame variabel access in worker thread

lucy2-Apr-02 6:40

lucy

2-Apr-02 6:40

when you create your worker thread, you can pass an argument to it. So if the worker thread is invoked from your mainframe, you can pass "this" to it. And in your worker thread, do a type cast of the LOVOID pParam with (CMainFrame *)pParam.

Re: MainFrame variabel access in worker thread

Alexandru Savescu2-Apr-02 20:38

Alexandru Savescu

2-Apr-02 20:38

Yes you got the hint. A worker thread does not have a window so AfxGetMainWnd will most likely return NULL. Even if you created a user interface thread and that one had a window AfxGetMainWnd will return a pointer to that window not the CMainFrame class.
Read this great article by Joseph M. Newcommer
Using Worker Threads

Best regards,
Alexandru Savescu

MSFlexGrid causing a crash

Chris Klecker2-Apr-02 2:39

Chris Klecker

2-Apr-02 2:39

I have a program running on Win2k that uses the MSFlexGrid control on one its screens. When it comes time to render and communicate with this control the whole program crashes.

Does this mean the control is not registered? How would I register the control programmically or through installshield? If I'm way off on this one, anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?

Thanks!

"Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?"
"We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

How to set an event multiple times in multithreading

Bhikshapathi Gorantla2-Apr-02 2:36

Bhikshapathi Gorantla

2-Apr-02 2:36

Hi I want to write a thread which queries database and gets the data for each timespan say for each 3 minuts.I sreated one event for executing this functionality.Now how can I set that event to call that procedure for each time?

Please help me?
Thank you

Pathi

Re: How to set an event multiple times in multithreading

Joaquín M López Muñoz2-Apr-02 5:30

Joaquín M López Muñoz

2-Apr-02 5:30

If your app is Windows-based (i.e. it has a message pump and all that) you can set a Windows timer and call SetEvent(hQueryEvent) in the handler. Check Nemanja Trifunovic's Timers tutorial for further info on Windows timers.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Re: How to set an event multiple times in multithreading

Bhikshapathi Gorantla2-Apr-02 19:30

Bhikshapathi Gorantla

2-Apr-02 19:30

Thank you Munoz
I did it but I want to know is there any other better option without using timer.Can I put WaitforMultipleObject()
method in while loop and call the procedure multipletimes?Then How can I break that loop?

Pathi

Re: How to set an event multiple times in multithreading

Neville Franks2-Apr-02 20:05

Neville Franks

2-Apr-02 20:05

If you want it to wakeup every N minutes why don't you just put it to sleep().

Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com

Re: How to set an event multiple times in multithreading

Joaquín M López Muñoz2-Apr-02 20:28

Joaquín M López Muñoz

2-Apr-02 20:28

I don't quite get what you're after, but maybe this approach is of some help: do it the other way around, omitting the "trigger" event and using just some cancelling event, like this:

// thread loop
switch(WaitForSingleObject(hCancelEvent,3000)){
  case WAIT_OBJECT_0: // cancel
    return 0; // exit
    break;
  case WAIT_TIMEOUT: // 3 seconds elapsed, do the query stuff
    // query stuff
    break;
  default: // unexpected, handle as appropriate
    ...
    break;
}

Is this closer to what you're looking for?

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

STL::map, how to prevent use of temporary object?

vmaltsev2-Apr-02 1:10

vmaltsev

2-Apr-02 1:10

Hi, everyone.
Sure, this is a dummy question, but I'm newbie with STL, so please, don't be angry. Smile | :)

The problem (or maybe feature) is in stl::map<int, myclass="">.insert(stl::map<int, myclass="">::value_type(int, myClassObj1)).

In this procedure I can see:
1. myClassObj2 is created by copy constructor from myClassObj1
2. myClassObj3 is created by copy constructor from myClassObj2
3. myClassObj2 is destroyed.

I guess, myClassObj2 is created in pair(const _T1& _V1, const _T2& _V2) and myClassObj3 is created in map::insert itself. I don't get it. Confused | :confused:

Could you please explain to me, why temporary object created? And is it possible to get rid of it?

Thank you in advance,
va'Lery

Re: STL::map, how to prevent use of temporary object?

Giles2-Apr-02 1:16

Giles

2-Apr-02 1:16

You need to pass it a pair.

e.g.

map<long, CString> mapNames;

// Insert an item :

mapNames.insert(make_pair(5, "Hello"))

Maps are a bit like Hashes, so the first value is the key, and the second is the value to be returned.

You may need to define a copy constructor for you class in the pair, depending on what it contains. e.g. pointers and the like.

hope this helps,

Giles

Re: STL::map, how to prevent use of temporary object?

Joaquín M López Muñoz2-Apr-02 2:15

Joaquín M López Muñoz

2-Apr-02 2:15

The temporary object myClassObj2 is created as part of the pair passed to map::insert, as you correctly guessed. This pair is used then internally to recreate the object to be inserted. Unfortunately, the value passed to map::insert cannot be used directly for two reasons:

What is passed is a const reference, with which little can be done except replicate it.
The object actually inserted into the map is allocated by special means (namely resorting to an STL allocator), so the pair you just passed simply does not fit.

I hope this helped you understand the problem. In short, you can't get rid of the temporary object in any easy way. If it is very important not to do excessive copying you should go to some approach using ref-counted pointers or something like that.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

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