C / C++ / MFC

Roger Broomfield26-Jul-07 20:15

26-Jul-07 20:15

The short answer is: because your menu doesnt have enough items in it.

CMDIFrameWnd::OnCreate() attempts to guess which sub-menu is the Window menu. It does this based on the assumption that you have followed the Windows user interface guidelines and have a Help menu as the right-most item and a Window menu immediately to the left of that. The assertion you are getting is specifically because the menu you have made for IDR_MAINFRAME has less than 2 items.

Anu_Bala26-Jul-07 21:10

26-Jul-07 21:10

OK. But i need only one menu for my application and specially i dont want help menu and file,view etc.,
I added a one new menu in IDR_MAINFRAME as Operator Station,thats all. This is enough for me.
IS there anyway to overcome this error?

Anu

Roger Broomfield26-Jul-07 22:19

26-Jul-07 22:19

I think before anything else you should read and understand all the functionality of CMDIFrameWnd Class[^] and perhaps review the Win32 MDI documentation[^]

Then you might replace your OnCreateClient with this

BOOL CMainFrame::OnCreateClient(LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs, CCreateContext* pContext) <br />
{<br />
 CMenu* pMenu = NULL;<br />
 if (m_hMenuDefault == NULL)<br />
 {<br />
  pMenu = GetMenu();<br />
  ASSERT(pMenu != NULL);<br />
  pMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(0);<br />
  ASSERT(pMenu != NULL);<br />
 }<br />
<br />
 return CreateClient(lpcs, pMenu);<br />
}

That will append the window list to your single Operator Station menu, you might also need to override other member functions of CMDIFrameWnd such as GetWindowMenuPopup which expects to find a standard window menu.

Alternately you could add a standard Window menu after Operator Station and replace your OnCreateClient with this

BOOL CMainFrame::OnCreateClient(LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs, CCreateContext* pContext) <br />
{<br />
 CMenu* pMenu = NULL;<br />
 if (m_hMenuDefault == NULL)<br />
 {<br />
  pMenu = GetMenu();<br />
  ASSERT(pMenu != NULL);<br />
  pMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(1);<br />
  ASSERT(pMenu != NULL);<br />
 }<br />
<br />
 return CreateClient(lpcs, pMenu);<br />
}

this is the way I would do it, if I really had to leave out the help menu, as it reduces the number of member functions that you might have to override.

Personally I would include the standard Window menu and a simple Help menu with just an about box.

Anu_Bala26-Jul-07 23:10

26-Jul-07 23:10

Yes, It works.I includeed OnCreateClient() and it works fine.

Anu

Anu_Bala26-Jul-07 23:18

26-Jul-07 23:18

It works fine. But i cannot close,minimize,maximize the mainframe as well as child window.Even i have buttons for all this.
Whats the problem in that?Pls help me.

Anu

Roger Broomfield26-Jul-07 23:35

26-Jul-07 23:35

Not sure where to start with this. Do you get any messages in the Output window when you debug the application and try to close,minimize,maximize the mainframe or child windows ?

Anu_Bala27-Jul-07 0:22

27-Jul-07 0:22

the output windows shows like this..but no repsonse when i click close or minimize button.
SENDING command id 0x8032 to CMainFrame target.
GUS: PumpMessage: hwnd=0x9F03C4, msg = WM_TIMER (0x0000, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x9F03C4, msg = WM_TIMER (0x0000, 0x00000000)
GUS: PumpMessage: hwnd=0x7F0376, msg = 0x0373 (0x0000, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x7F0376, msg = 0x0373 (0x0000, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x9F03C4, msg = WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI (0x0001, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x3C02C4, msg = WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI (0x0001, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x35038C, msg = WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI (0x0001, 0x00000000)
GUS: WndProc: hwnd=0x3C02C4, msg = WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI (0x0001, 0x00000000)
....Like this only.
Actually we using this application without any frame i.e., we use without any close buttons and minimize and maximize button.
For that we change the code precreatewindow in both mainframe and childframe.
But now we need all windows with these buttons.So i commented the cs Style in precreatewindow in both frames.So i get the buttons but it does not work. Particularly if it is restore position,i can mimimize it. But when i maximize it, i cannot do anything.When i click in that button no clicking action takes place.it just sit as it is.I have OnClose() in CMainframe().But when i close the button it does not move to Onclose() function.

Anu

Roger Broomfield27-Jul-07 0:57

27-Jul-07 0:57

Does your CMainFrame have its own OnSysCommand() handler?
If so does it call that base class OnSysCommand()?

Anu_Bala27-Jul-07 1:34

27-Jul-07 1:34

My CMainFrame() don't have OnSysCOmmand function.
I made some sample application in MDI.
But there we dont use OnsysCommand(), but every buttons work perfectly it gets minimized,maximized etc.,
My application also MDI application. Then why this problem?
Really i confused why this problem particularly occur in my application.
Even again i started from the scratch,selectin all project settings and added my class codings.But no use.The same problem exists.

Anu

Roger Broomfield27-Jul-07 2:10

Programmatically show group properties dialog

27-Jul-07 2:10

I'm sorry I have insufficient information to further analyse this problem. Something in your "class codings" must be interfering with the default message handling.

mbooth951726-Jul-07 17:13

mbooth9517

26-Jul-07 17:13

Using windows address book, its possible to search active directory for a group or user, right click on it and show the properties.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for this, or possibly give me a clue so I can work it out myself?

Regards

Martin

Re: Programmatically show group properties dialog

Mark Salsbery26-Jul-07 17:46

Re: Programmatically show group properties dialog

26-Jul-07 17:46

I have no idea if this is the right direction, but hopefully it's a possible clue...

Active Directory Domain Services[^]

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

mbooth951726-Jul-07 20:04

mbooth9517

26-Jul-07 20:04

Thanks for your suggestion, and sorry for writing a completly useless message to describe what I'm trying to do. No-one in the world could figure out what I meant by that, having read back my original message.. It has been a long week!

I am actually trying to programmatically open the properties dialog of a security group or user.. the same dialog which would be displayed by following the steps I descibed before. That is..

Windows Address Book, Edit, Find people, typing in either a user name or a group, right clicking on it and choosing properties.

I am interested in any advice in at the very least locating which dll might be responsible for displaying this dialog.

And if anyone actually has a way of programatically showing this box given maybe an ads path, etc, that would be perfect

Regards

Martin

NEED HELP with multithreading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alberthyc26-Jul-07 14:29

26-Jul-07 14:29

hi, i'm a beginner in both MFC and multithreading.

i created a dialog and in my CMy61xxTestDlg.h, i declared:

UINT __cdecl Start(LPVOID pParam);

// CMy61xxTestDlg dialog
class CMy61xxTestDlg : public CDialog
{......

and in my cpp file, i have

hDrv=0;

CWinThread* pThread=AfxBeginThread(Start,(UINT)hDrv,THREAD_PRIORITY_BELOW_NORMAL);

i got error like:

error C2665: 'AfxBeginThread' : none of the 2 overloads could convert all the argument types

.....\afxwin.h(4202): could be 'CWinThread *AfxBeginThread(AFX_THREADPROC,LPVOID,int,UINT,DWORD,LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)'

.....\afxwin.h(4205): or 'CWinThread *AfxBeginThread(CRuntimeClass *,int,UINT,DWORD,LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)'
while trying to match the argument list '(UINT (__cdecl *)(LPVOID), UINT, int)'

could anyone help me with this? Confused | :confused:

thx!!!

Mark Salsbery26-Jul-07 14:33

26-Jul-07 14:33

Two possibilities I see...

1) Start is a non-static member function
2) hDrv should be cast to a LPVOID, not a UINT

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

alberthyc26-Jul-07 17:15

26-Jul-07 17:15

hmm...isn't a start a global function?

Mark Salsbery26-Jul-07 17:25

26-Jul-07 17:25

If yes then ignore #1 Smile | :)

I meant those were two possible reasons for the error based on what I could see.
I put #1 just in case you had it declared inside a class.

Did fixing the cast work then?

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

alberthyc27-Jul-07 5:32

27-Jul-07 5:32

yes! it worked, now i only got a warning C4312: 'type cast' : conversion from 'int' to 'LPVOID' of greater size
I hope this warning doesn't affect anything.
Thanks!

Mark Salsbery27-Jul-07 5:40

27-Jul-07 5:40

You get a warning if you do it like this?

CWinThread* pThread=AfxBeginThread(Start,(LPVOID)hDrv,THREAD_PRIORITY_BELOW_NORMAL);

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

alberthyc27-Jul-07 6:05

27-Jul-07 6:05

yes, the warning is warning C4312: 'type cast' : conversion from 'int' to 'LPVOID' of greater size
i think it's because hDrv was declared as int

Mark Salsbery27-Jul-07 6:42

Re: NEED HELP with multithreading!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [modified]

27-Jul-07 6:42

Ohh it's a 64-bit compatibility warning Smile | :)

You can use the LONG_PTR type instead of int or disable the warning if you want to.

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

alberthyc27-Jul-07 10:27

27-Jul-07 10:27

ok...thanks!
and 1 more question regarding start() function,
i need to use the function and variable in the my CXXXDlg class, what's the syntax for that?

say what if i want to use the m_CListBox.AddString function, m_ClistBox is the CListBox object declared in the CXXXDlg class

-- modified at 17:08 Friday 27th July, 2007

Mark Salsbery27-Jul-07 12:12