C / C++ / MFC

Re: need a good method for popping between dialogs

4-Mar-08 5:56

littleGreenDude wrote:
Are you saying you are in the habit of denying management requests?

I am in the habit of helping them understand that when they think they can't afford to do it right it is at least partially because they don't know how much it's going to cost them to do it wrong.

littleGreenDude wrote:
28 years of programming experience? -got it

Computer Science degree from one of the top engineering universities in the country? -got it

Technical Training from Microsoft? -got it

Published in a Technical Journal? -got it

So are you comparing yourself to Kent Beck? -got it?

Also their is no way I would have guessed you have that background based on your original post

littleGreenDude wrote:
(and I guess if the answer is the dialogs shouldn't be modal, I'll accept it, but not necessarily like it).

and the fact that you need help with this problem to begin with. I have worked with people with far less credentials than you claim to have who would have refactored that nightmare into a tab control solution in two to three days. Meanwhile here you are four days later still whining about it.

led mike

littleGreenDude4-Mar-08 7:35

littleGreenDude

4-Mar-08 7:35

They don't want a tab control.

When it comes to software development, 98% of what we do is mundane and common. Every once in a while you come across something where you would like to know if there is some out of the ordinary solution/creative idea. I never said the problem wasn't resolved, I just was curious about other ideas/solutions. Isn't that what a forum is for?

Just to recap- you've insulted my career choice, called me a liar, and accused me of whining. Maybe you should check the parking lot to make sure I haven't stolen your car.

Man, what is your problem? Didn't your mother hug you enough as a child?

Re: need a good method for popping between dialogs

led mike4-Mar-08 8:01

checking the current time in C++

4-Mar-08 8:01

littleGreenDude wrote:
called me a liar

That's not true, just because I cited other people I worked with having far less than you claim to have doesn't mean I think you are lying. I work with people now that have 2/3 the time in the industry as you with degrees that couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag. It's not really possible to conclude anything about a developers expertise only from the credentials you listed off.

littleGreenDude wrote:
you've insulted my career choice

That one I'm not following

littleGreenDude wrote:
and accused me of whining

I'll stick by that one

For the record I don't have a clue what your expertise as a developer is. Your posts so far have not really provided information that could be used to gauge that. Due to that, many of my observations about developers were intentionally not aimed at you in any way. My last reply is just explaining, why, from your posted qualifications my inclination is to believe you would be perfectly capable of refactoring to tab controls in several days.

I did understand you were working with legacy code that you may not have written. None of that however changes my opinion about what a minimum quality solution to the problem might be, which is what I gave you.

My normal posting style tends to be sarcastic. That coupled with my disdain and normally direct refusal to hack software solutions has falsely given you the impression that I have been attacking you. I apologize for that but my stand on your development problem has not changed.

led mike

nahitan29-Feb-08 9:02

29-Feb-08 9:02

hi there,

Could anybody please help me in this:
I need to check the current time in my application after each message that my application receives and whenever it is midnight I reset a counter inside my program.

I appreciate any ideas

Thanks,

Nahitan

David Crow29-Feb-08 9:41

David Crow

29-Feb-08 9:41

In your window's message procedure, do something like:

time_t t;
time(&t);
tm *now;
now = localtime(&t);
if (now->tm_hour ...)

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

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nahitan29-Feb-08 10:15

29-Feb-08 10:15

Thank you very much for your help. When I added your code in my application and when I compile it I get:

time_t mt; time(&mt); tm *now; now = localtime(&mt);
LogError("ClassA","IClass","jjjjjjjhour=%tm", now->tm_hour);

Error executing c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe.

Class.dll - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Thanks,

David Crow29-Feb-08 10:19

David Crow

29-Feb-08 10:19

So which of the three staments is in error?

What does %tm do?

Bram van Kampen29-Feb-08 12:39

Bram van Kampen

29-Feb-08 12:39

You confused the poor compiler somewhere. Set a few breakpoints, and find out what's happening.
Work with Asserted Values, Run Trivial Examples, Write a Dedicated App to take just this step (Can be a Dialog based App,Call your code in OnInitApp() ). This is called 'Debugging'. The above are the steps I would take, and in that following order. I bet that Step One will lead you to the solution.

It may be slow and tedious, but that's what writing software is about.

Let me know how you're getting on. Rose | [Rose]

Bram van Kampen

nahitan1-Mar-08 11:41

1-Mar-08 11:41

I can't figure out what to do. I changed the code to:

time_t mt; time(&mt);
tm *now;
now = localtime(&mt);
if (now->tm_hour==16){LogError("AClass","BProcess","Hour is 4 pm");}
I still get the same error message
Without these 5 lines of code, I do not get any error. I even took out the if statement and I still get the error! Confused | :confused:

Bram van Kampen5-Mar-08 16:45

Bram van Kampen

5-Mar-08 16:45

time_t mt;
time(&mt);
// I would use mt =time(NULL);
struct tm *now;
now = localtime(&mt);

tm is part of the tag Name Space. Not part of cpp as such, but still there
// Works in MSVS 5.00

Smile | :)

Bram van Kampen

nahitan12-Mar-08 7:02

12-Mar-08 7:02

Thanks a lot, worked perfectly!

Thanks thanks thanks,

Bram van Kampen5-Mar-08 16:52

Bram van Kampen

5-Mar-08 16:52

Thinking a bit further.

struct tm is part of the C-Runtime, not CPP. That's why you need to qualify tm as a structure tag. In other words, struct tm was declared as a structure tag under 'C' it has therefore no typedef value under cpp.

Regards Smile | :)

Bram van Kampen

about the listbox part of combobox

User 23822921-Mar-08 18:37

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1-Mar-08 18:37

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modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.

Koder29-Feb-08 7:58

Koder

29-Feb-08 7:58

Hi,

How does the listbox part of combobox appear beyond the parent's client area without being clipped whereas a hand made listbox,when moved near the edge of the parent's client area get clipped?

I mean, suppose the parent's client area is 300x300. If I move a combobox to 100,250 with dropdown height as 100 and click on it, it opens up. Now suppose I move a listbox of size 100x200 to 100,250. It is clipped.

What's the trick Confused | :confused:

? I guessed the combo's listbox is sibling of the combo's parent and has higher Z order....

I need this to work. F1.

Koder.

Mark Salsbery29-Feb-08 8:40

29-Feb-08 8:40

I would guess the combo box's list window is a child of the desktop window.

Mark

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

led mike29-Feb-08 9:56

29-Feb-08 9:56

Mark Salsbery wrote:
I would guess the combo box's list window is a child of the desktop window.

Well you can't actually get Spy++ on the drop down window ( at least I can't figure out how ) but putting on one that has the list displayed statically or on a rolled-up combobox does not show the desktop as an owner of the any of combobox windows.

led mike

Mark Salsbery29-Feb-08 10:12

29-Feb-08 10:12

I wouldn't expect or assume anything on a rolled-up combobox but what do you mean by
"the list displayed statically"?

Heck, now that I think about it more, it doesn't need to be a separate window...
The control code can just draw it on the screen (to a screen DC) Smile | :)

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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led mike29-Feb-08 10:46

29-Feb-08 10:46

Mark Salsbery wrote:
Heck, now that I think about it more, it doesn't need to be a separate window...
The control code can just draw it on the screen (to a screen DC)

Yeah that's what I was thinking, it's a common control so who knows what it's doing.

Mark Salsbery wrote:
but what do you mean by
"the list displayed statically"?

Well you can see one in the Notepad Font Dialog or do one in your own MFC dialog by setting the "Type" property to "Simple"

led mike

Mark Salsbery29-Feb-08 10:55

Re: about the listbox part of combobox [modified]

29-Feb-08 10:55

led mike wrote:
or do one in your own MFC dialog by setting the "Type" property to "Simple"

That doesn't draw outside the parent for me (on Vista/Common Controls V6).

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

led mike29-Feb-08 11:02

29-Feb-08 11:02

Mark Salsbery wrote:
That doesn't draw outside the parent for me

Did you lengthen it vertically in the designer after setting the property? And put data in it?

(XP Pro VS2005 ) What is the DLL so I can check the version?

Wow, what an idiot, "outside the parent", I was thinking the edit box part of the control not the parent window of the combobox.

Guess I picked a bad day to stop smoking crack. Have a great weekend Mark, i'm outa here! Beer | [beer]

Last modified: 18mins after originally posted --

led mike

Mark Salsbery29-Feb-08 11:20

29-Feb-08 11:20

led mike wrote:
Did you lengthen it vertically in the designer after setting the property? And put data in it?

Yes. And put it at the bottom of the dialog. If I resize the dialog by dragging the bottom edge down,
the items come into view.

led mike wrote:
(XP Pro VS2005 ) What is the DLL so I can check the version?

Beats me - which dll has the combobox implementation? Blush | :O

I just meant I was using the <assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0'...
manifest entry Smile | :)

Is this the daily "how does it work" session? hehe If more people would do that, there wouldn't be many posts here LOL

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

Mark Salsbery29-Feb-08 11:41

29-Feb-08 11:41

Hehe just saw your modified post.

led mike wrote:
Have a great weekend Mark, i'm outa here!

Thanks, man, you too! Beer | [beer]

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

bob169721-Mar-08 5:50

bob16972

1-Mar-08 5:50

From MSDN:

"Due to its size, the list box component of a drop-down combo box may need to extend beyond the client area of the combo box's parent window. Windows creates the list box as a child of the desktop window"

Mark Salsbery1-Mar-08 8:19

1-Mar-08 8:19

son of a gun! Smile | :)

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