Re: Program icon when minimized app - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Roger Allen12-Jul-02 1:53

12-Jul-02 1:53

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Re: library for printing pdf's

Bernhard14-Jul-02 19:21

Bernhard

14-Jul-02 19:21

i need it the other way round... a background process should print pdf files out..

first a normal printout from an application (with barcodes..)
then some pages from a pdf file..
(and this should be a background process.. so no gui..)

bernhard..

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Program icon when minimized app

ViolaCase11-Jul-02 23:20

ViolaCase

11-Jul-02 23:20

Situation: I built a dialog based mfc-win32-app.
Because the app works with skins, the main dialog has no borders nor caption.
Problem: The program DOES show the program icon when the app is minimized and shown in the Windows main task bar WITH border/caption, but NOT without it. This seems very odd to me Confused | :confused:

I really want the program icon shown...
Solution:? Unsure | :~

Re: Program icon when minimized app

Nish Nishant12-Jul-02 1:11

Nish Nishant

12-Jul-02 1:11

Hmmmm. I just created a dialog based app using VC++ 6, removed the title bar and set the border style to none. I ran the program and promptly got the task-bar icon. Something else is the problem in your case.

Nish Suspicious | :suss:

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Re: Program icon when minimized app

Rage12-Jul-02 1:24

Rage

12-Jul-02 1:24

I did the same as you, but i do _not_ have it. Nish, you have really mastered your computer Big Grin | :-D

~RaGE();

Re: Program icon when minimized app

ViolaCase12-Jul-02 4:15

ViolaCase

12-Jul-02 4:15

Thx for your reply Nish.
But...I just created a dialog based app using VC++ 6, set style to 'popup' and the border style to 'none'. All the other fields but 'visible' are left blank.
I ran the program and did NOT get the task-bar icon.
I run under win98 4.10.98. Might that be the problem?

Re: Program icon when minimized app

Nish Nishant12-Jul-02 5:29

Nish Nishant

12-Jul-02 5:29

ViolaCase wrote:
I run under win98 4.10.98. Might that be the problem?

Could be. I ran it on XP

Nish

Author of the romantic comedy

Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]

Review by Shog⁹
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Re: Program icon when minimized app

Rage12-Jul-02 1:57

Rage

12-Jul-02 1:57

Mmmhhh ... so i tried following, and that´s really weird :

dialog based mfc app have an extra code in OnPaint() to draw the icon in the task bar, and this has to work no matter whether there is a caption or there is no caption. So i put a breakpoint into the onpaint method, and discovered that ... the IsIconic() method does not respond properly WTF | :WTF:

(return FALSE even if the app is minimized)!!! So there must be another piece of code which draws icons in the task bar...

I´ve copied the code in a OnButton method (because without border there is no minimialize button, so i´ve created one), so that i have :

void CTestDlg::OnButton() 
{
	
	ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE);
	
	WINDOWPLACEMENT* lpwndpl=new WINDOWPLACEMENT;
	GetWindowPlacement(lpwndpl);
	CPaintDC dc(this); // Gerätekontext für Zeichnen

        SendMessage(WM_ICONERASEBKGND, (WPARAM) dc.GetSafeHdc(), 0);

	// Symbol in Client-Rechteck zentrieren
	int cxIcon = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXICON);
	int cyIcon = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYICON);
	CRect rect;
	GetClientRect(&rect);
	int x = (rect.Width() - cxIcon + 1) / 2;
	int y = (rect.Height() - cyIcon + 1) / 2;
	// Symbol zeichnen
	dc.DrawIcon(x, y, m_hIcon);
}

and here the GetClientRect(&rect); returns {0,0,0,0} Confused | :confused:

!! So, I´m quite as lost as ViolaCase now Big Grin | :-D

. Can Someone explain how this minimize thing functions, and why the overrided OnPaint() method is not used ??

~RaGE();

comboboxex with edit vs tooltip

real name11-Jul-02 23:18

real name

11-Jul-02 23:18

why my comboboxex doesn't show tooltip with mouse over editctrl? (cursor is edit's)
all difference i see comparing to another functional example is i have comboboxex, OnToolHitTest fills still absolutely the same, in calling function gets to TTM_ACTIVATE and HWND_TOP but nothing happens
(i tried when is over edit return edit's or comboboex's id etc. but all failed)
all is fine when mouse is not over edit resp. when i open it without edit (CBS_DROPDOWNLIST only)
has someone this problem?
t!

More on Memory Leak Detectors

LittleYellowBird11-Jul-02 23:01

LittleYellowBird

11-Jul-02 23:01

I've been looking at Memory Leak detectors and I've found this one 'Memory Sleuth 3' by Turbo Power. You can get a trial version here ...

http://www.turbopower.com/trialrun

They say 'Trial-Run Editions of TurboPower products are fully-working versions of our software. The only restriction is that your compiler's IDE is running. In other words, you cannot deploy your applications with the Trial-Run Editions.'

This sounds pretty handy to me, am I missing the catch?

Just in case anyone missed me going on about Memory Detectors recently, I found this one called GlowCode which I realy like, and you can get a free time limited trial here ....

http://www.glowcode.com/update.htm

If you are looking for this kind of tool too, try them and let me know what you think, because I can't decided which to choose.

Ali

Re: More on Memory Leak Detectors

Christian Graus12-Jul-02 1:02

Christian Graus

12-Jul-02 1:02

Have you looked at the one Software Verification advertise on CP ? I got a copy for winning the C# screensaver contest, and while I've not had a chance to look at it too deeply, I'm impressed with what I have seen. I believe Rama won one as well, and so did James, maybe ask them also.

I seem to recall you are in the UK, and they are too, so that's probably a plus as well, in terms of support.

Christian

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Re: More on Memory Leak Detectors

LittleYellowBird12-Jul-02 2:13

LittleYellowBird

12-Jul-02 2:13

Good idea, Smile | :)

I'll give it a try.

Anyone else who might be interested the link is ....

http://www.softwareverify.com

(I've put that in because the advert is not always on screen.)

Ali

Re: More on Memory Leak Detectors

Jeremy Pullicino12-Jul-02 5:30

Jeremy Pullicino

12-Jul-02 5:30

Have you tried Nu Mega's bounds checker?

I used a version on NT (a while ago). It worked quite well, however, it did not work too well when I was coding some low level RPC stuff.

Jeremy.

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Timecode Ruler Problem

chen11-Jul-02 22:47

chen

11-Jul-02 22:47

Hi,

I have seen some rulers designed by VC++, but is there a
ruler designed as a timecode (hour, minute, second and frame,
with 1 second = 30 frames)?

Did you have any purpose or ideas?

Thanks in advance!

chen

Re: Timecode Ruler Problem

benjymous12-Jul-02 2:45

benjymous

12-Jul-02 2:45

Couldn't you just take the code for an existing ruler, and modify it?

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Setting Account name and password for accessing a remote PC

Shibu.V.Nair11-Jul-02 22:21

Shibu.V.Nair

11-Jul-02 22:21

Hi all,
I would like to copy a file from a remote machine.Since the machine is running on WINDOWS 2000.I have to connect it using account name & password.Can anyone tell me how can i provide account name and password through program?.
With regards.

Shibu K.V.
Senior Research Associate.
VLSI ASIC Hardware Design Group
Electronics R&D Centre,Trivandrum
India

Re: Setting Account name and password for accessing a remote PC

Prem Kumar11-Jul-02 23:12

Prem Kumar

11-Jul-02 23:12

Use 'WNetAddConnection2'.

How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

Yo Yo~~11-Jul-02 21:31

Yo Yo~~

11-Jul-02 21:31

Hello, folks,

I got some trouble using MFC CDialog class in my DLL (MFC static linked DLL).
Though my DLL is made MFC static linked, when I use MFC classes to create a dialog (pop-up or child), I always got a window creation error.

I know I can create dialog using win32 SDK (i.e, using CreateDialog(..) or DialogBoxParam(..), I did them before !), but I still want to use MFC to create my dialog. Because I also have something like CListCtrl or CListView on that dialog.

Could anybody help me ? Or I should use win32 SDK instead ?
And, are "list control" and "list view" same ?

Any response would be appreciated.

Re: How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

Rage11-Jul-02 23:07

Rage

11-Jul-02 23:07

Yo Yo~~ wrote:
Though my DLL is made MFC static linked, when I use MFC classes to create a dialog (pop-up or child), I always got a window creation error.

Post your code, pls ... The code is more likely to be wrong than the MFC dll Smile | :)

~RaGE();

Re: How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

Yo Yo~~11-Jul-02 23:47

Yo Yo~~

11-Jul-02 23:47

/// on MyGUIDlg.cpp; a dialog based application
void CGUIDlg::OnViewLog()
{
DWORD r = 0;
r = ViewLogFile( this->m_hWnd );

}

/// on MyDLL.cpp; a MFC static linked DLL

DLLExport DWORD WINAPI ViewLogFile( HWND hParendWnd )
{
CWnd* pParentWnd = new CWnd();
pParentWnd->Attach( hParendWnd );

CEventLogDlg* pLogDlg = new CEventLogDlg( pParentWnd );
if ( pLogDlg != NULL )
{
pLogDlg->Create( IDD_EVENT_LOG, pParentWnd );
///IDD_EVENT_LOG is resource ID

pLogDlg->ShowWindow( SW_SHOW );
}
}

/// class CEventLogDlg
class CEventLogDlg : public CDialog
{
........
}

Re: How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

KaЯl12-Jul-02 3:35

KaЯl

12-Jul-02 3:35

There may be a confusion about the resource you try to load. Called from an application, your DLL will try to load application's resource.
To be sure what you are loading, try this:

In the dialog constructor:
CMyDlg::CMyDlg(CWnd* pParent /*=NULL*/) : CDialog(/*CMyDlg::IDD*/)
{

HINSTANCE hInstance = GetModuleHandle(_T("MyDLL"));

VERIFY(hInstance);
HRSRC hResource = ::FindResource(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_MYRESOURCE), RT_DIALOG);
VERIFY(hResource);
HGLOBAL hTemplate = LoadResource(hInstance, hResource);
VERIFY(hTemplate);

InitModalIndirect((HGLOBAL)hTemplate, pParent);
FreeResource(hTemplate);
}

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Re: How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

Mel Stober12-Jul-02 7:32

Mel Stober

12-Jul-02 7:32

I tried your suggestion, put that code in my dialog's constructor and compiled the dll. Then in my app, I added the dialog's *.h file, but when I tried to compile my app, I got and error about an undefined symbol in the dialog box's header file:

#ifdef _USRDLL
#define DllExport __declspec( dllexport )
#else
#define DllExport __declspec( dllimport )
#endif

class DllExport CMyDlg : public CDialog
{
// Construction
public:
enum { IDD = IDD_MYDIALOG_DIALOG };

I know that IDD_MYDIALOG_DIALOG is defined in the dll's resource.h file. Do I also have to include it in my app's *.cpp ?

Re: How to use MFC CDialog in a DLL ?

Yo Yo~~15-Jul-02 22:26

Yo Yo~~

15-Jul-02 22:26

Thanks ! It really helps.

I tried your codes and added something in my DLL as follows. Then it worked !

/// in MyDLL.cpp
CMyDlg* InitMyDialog( HWND hParent )
{
CMyDlg* pMyDlg = NULL;
AFX_MANAGE_STATE( AfxGetStaticModuleState() );

pMyDlg = new CMyDlg( CWnd::FromHandle( hParent ) );

if ( pMyDlg != NULL )
pMyDlg->ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );

return pMyDlg;

}

Unix crypt() under windows.

Franz Granlund11-Jul-02 21:30

Franz Granlund

11-Jul-02 21:30

Hello gurus.

I'm currently programming am application for windows 2000 (in Visual Studio C++ 6.0).
It's a program that creates LDIF files that will be used to update a LDAP entries. (openLDAP)

I've run into one problem tough. Is there a function/library in VSC++ that is similar to the unix crypt()? (using md5 or the ldap {crypt})

Yes, I'm a beginner, but I'm learning. Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Unix crypt() under windows.

Martin Ziacek11-Jul-02 23:25

Martin Ziacek

11-Jul-02 23:25

Franz Granlund wrote:
Hello gurus.

Hi there. Smile | :)

Franz Granlund wrote:
Is there a function/library in VSC++ that is similar to the unix crypt()?

Try to use CryptoAPI. Maybe you will find it too complex, but it should fulfil your requirements.

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