Re: The new Office2007 Ribbonbar - Are there pushlike checkboxes for it? - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

molesworth6-Aug-09 7:04

6-Aug-09 7:04

MrMcIntyre wrote:
It isnt a virtual world like Second Life as advanced than that, I mean just like World of Kaneva on that sort of edge no higher than that.

I hadn't come across Kaneva before, but it looks just about as complex as Second Life, and with higher quality graphics. Developing something like that is definitely going to be a pretty big job.

MrMcIntyre wrote:
As I said previously I am still looking for anyone who is interested, and that this project can be finished progressivly and I have planned out this project carefully step by step.

You'll definitely need to put together a fairly big team to do this, even using middleware. You're going to need coders, artists, designers, audio people, networking specialists... The list is pretty long. There are a few online boards where you can ask for people interested in collaborative work, although there are always more people with ideas needing teams than there are people interested in joining them.

I notice that Kaneva have made their engine freely available for non-commercial use (here) so it might be a good idea to check it out and see if you can use it to get your basic system up and running.

And in case you think I'm being too negative, have a look at what my company's currently working on. OK, maybe a bit more complex, and a bit bigger in scale, but in many ways a very similar exercise. You'd be staggered if I told you (that's if I was allowed to tell you) how many people are in the team and how long it's been in development...

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Re: New Project

MrMcIntyre6-Aug-09 9:03

MrMcIntyre

6-Aug-09 9:03

See if I don't create a virtual world but redesign the project into being more game based in some ways but still allow players to upload music, videos, photos, ect to the game, would you able to help me as I think you are the best person to work with and I had a look at your website and was stunned at the work you do.

Thanks

Andrew McIntyre

Re: New Project

molesworth6-Aug-09 11:14

molesworth

6-Aug-09 11:14

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately my company has strict rules about what we can work on as "outside projects" and something like this certainly wouldn't be allowed. I doubt I'd have the time to put into it anyway, as I prefer to spend most of my non-work time in non-programming activities.

Hopefully the links I've posted in previous messages will be of some use to you, and I'd recommend trying e.g. XNA to get a feel for the process of building a game.

re RTW and APB, well, it is pretty amazing, but I'm not actually on that project. I'm working on the game that's coming after APB - which will be even more amazing - obviously Smile | :)

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Re: New Project

MrMcIntyre7-Aug-09 0:30

MrMcIntyre

7-Aug-09 0:30

Do you know anyone who could help me with this project who either has an e-mail address or a website that I can contact and ask ect.

Andrew McIntyre

Re: New Project

molesworth7-Aug-09 4:41

molesworth

7-Aug-09 4:41

Pretty much all my contacts are in the games business as well, so would probably be in the same position and unable to help you.

There are some online boards and lists where you can put up a message asking if anyone's interested in your idea, one of the more likely possibilities being GameDev.Net. Actually, GameDev.Net is a pretty good resource for learning about all aspects of game development as well, so you can probably pick up quite a lot of useful information by browsing through the articles and tutorials there.

Anyway, good luck with the project, and I hope you can get a few people interested.

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View with Larger Dimension

Madhu_Rani5-Aug-09 2:45

Madhu_Rani

5-Aug-09 2:45

I have an SDI based application, and is uploading a bitmap having dimension 1280*1280... The size of client area is less and the bitmap size is large... It only uploads the portion of bitmap that fits into the client area.

So how I may increase the client area, so that scroll bar horizontal/vertical appears and bitmap loaded properly. I changed the structure CREATESTRUCT in PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)

but it did not work.

any idea? THANKS

The new Office2007 Ribbonbar - Are there pushlike checkboxes for it?

sashoalm5-Aug-09 2:01

sashoalm

5-Aug-09 2:01

I need a control for the new ribbon bar that looks like a button but behaves like a checkbox (i.e. a pushlike checkbox). In VC6 I could do that with the BS_AUTOCHECKBOX|BS_PUSHLIKE styles, but I can't find a ribbon button with the same behavior, and the new CMFCRibbonButton and CMFCRibbonCheckBox aren't real windows (they don't have hwnds), so I can't just add the styles.

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Re: The new Office2007 Ribbonbar - Are there pushlike checkboxes for it?

sashoalm5-Aug-09 4:39

sashoalm

5-Aug-09 4:39

Nevermind, I found a way to simulate that behavior with ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI.

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Re: The new Office2007 Ribbonbar - Are there pushlike checkboxes for it?

AksharRoop11-Jun-10 3:13

AksharRoop

11-Jun-10 3:13

I would like to simulate the same, can you please help?

disabling finish button on property sheet wizard

si_695-Aug-09 0:04

si_69

5-Aug-09 0:04

Hi
Can anyone tell me how i can disable the finish button on a property sheet wizard ?

on my property page i initally define the buttons like

BOOL CPage::OnSetActive()
{
	CWizard* pParent = (CWizard*)GetParent();
	ASSERT_KINDOF(CWizard, pParent);
	pParent->SetWizardButtons(PSWIZB_BACK | PSWIZB_FINISH);

	return CPropertyPage::OnSetActive();
}

I then want to disable the finish button until a certain task has completed

i.e

void CPage::OnBnClickedBstart()
{
   GetDlgItem(ID_WIZFINISH)->EnableWindow(FALSE);
   DoSomething();
GetDlgItem(ID_WIZFINISH)->EnableWindow(TRUE);
 
}

i have also tried adding

CWnd *pWnd = GetDlgItem (ID_WIZFINISH);
    pWnd->EnableWindow(FALSE);

but get the same problem

Can anyone help at all

thanks

Simon

Re: disabling finish button on property sheet wizard

_AnsHUMAN_ 5-Aug-09 0:13

_AnsHUMAN_

5-Aug-09 0:13

use in SetWizardButtons- PSWIZB_DISABLEDFINISH

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Compiler error when defining enum for registry

sunny_vc4-Aug-09 23:53

sunny_vc

4-Aug-09 23:53

Hi,
I am using one of the registy class given in CP.
The keys are defined in .h file like:

enum Keys
	{
		classesRoot =  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
		currentUser =  HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
		localMachine = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
		currentConfig = HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG,
		users = HKEY_USERS,
		performanceData = HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA,	 
		dynData = HKEY_DYN_DATA						 
	};

When I compile this in VC6.0 it compiles with no errors.
But when I compile the same in visual studio 2003 it gives error like:" Constant expression is not intergral"
If i cast like: "classesRoot=(int)HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT", it throws warning such as "pointer truncation from HEKY to int".
How can I avoid the error.Please suggest.

Regards,
Sunil Kumar

Re: Compiler error when defining enum for registry

Code-o-mat5-Aug-09 0:09

Code-o-mat

5-Aug-09 0:09

Try converting to ULONG_PTR or maybe LONG_PTR instead of int, althorough making an enum out of HKEYs seems to be a tiny-bit ugly to me, but this might just be my personal taste. Good luck.

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Re: Compiler error when defining enum for registry

sunny_vc5-Aug-09 0:36

sunny_vc

5-Aug-09 0:36

Thanks mate. (LONG_PTR) works.

Regards,
Sunil Kumar

wcstombs is not working

Rakesh54-Aug-09 23:16

Rakesh5

4-Aug-09 23:16

hi all,

i am using wcstombs function to convert my const wchar* value to char*.... but its showing ?? marks instead of unicode characters..

i tried using widechartomultibyte like this... [(WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, Text, 0, Chartext, nSize, NULL, NULL); where int nSize =0;] but its also not converting the value....

can anyone help me where am i going wrong...

Thanks,
Rakesh.

Re: wcstombs is not working

n1pabs4-Aug-09 23:34

n1pabs

4-Aug-09 23:34

Which character set are you trying to convert from?

and a wchar is unicode char is ansi Smile | :)

Re: wcstombs is not working

Rakesh54-Aug-09 23:40

Rakesh5

4-Aug-09 23:40

unicode characters..

i use chinese,japanese,arabic,french..

thanks,
rakesh

Re: wcstombs is not working

Souldrift4-Aug-09 23:44

Souldrift

4-Aug-09 23:44

Hm, just looking at your code line and reading this in the documentation "If cchWideChar is set to 0, the function fails." I´d say use -1 as your cchWideChar (fourth parameter).

Souldrift

Re: wcstombs is not working

Rakesh54-Aug-09 23:50

Rakesh5

4-Aug-09 23:50

actually i tried with -1 first... it dint work..hence i tried with 0...

Thanks,
Rakesh

Re: wcstombs is not working

Souldrift4-Aug-09 23:51

Souldrift

4-Aug-09 23:51

Could you post your actual piece of code?

Re: wcstombs is not working

Rakesh55-Aug-09 0:04

Rakesh5

5-Aug-09 0:04

Hi,

This is my piece of code..

const WCHAR* pText = "hello";
char * pCharText;
WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1,(LPSTR) pCharText, nSize, NULL, NULL);

Thanks,
Rakesh.

Re: wcstombs is not working

Souldrift5-Aug-09 0:13

Souldrift

5-Aug-09 0:13

That cannot be all your code. What´s nSize? And pCharText wasn´t initialized -> this should be a runtime error.

Anyway, try this

int erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, NULL, 0, 0, 0); // first we ask for the memory needed
char* result = new char[erg];
erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, result, erg, 0, 0); // then we convert

Souldrift

Re: wcstombs is not working

Rakesh55-Aug-09 0:53

Rakesh5

5-Aug-09 0:53

Hi SoulDrift,

I tried your code..its still showing the same "??" marks rather japanese texts..

please tell me where am going wrong..

am giving the code once again for your perusal..

const WCHAR* = L"sss";

int erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, NULL, 0, 0, 0); // first we ask for the memory needed
char* charText = new char[erg];
erg = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, charText, erg, 0, 0); // then we convert

Thanks,
Rakesh

Re: wcstombs is not working

Souldrift5-Aug-09 2:13

Souldrift

5-Aug-09 2:13

Your const WCHAR* doesn`t have a label. Does your compiler not have a problem with that?

I tried your code

const WCHAR* pText = L"sss";

int erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, NULL, 0, 0, 0); // first we ask for the memory needed
char* charText = new char[erg];
erg = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pText, -1, charText, erg, 0, 0); // then we convert

I works very nicely.

Souldrift

Re: wcstombs is not working

CPallini4-Aug-09 23:55

CPallini

4-Aug-09 23:55

If the wide char character cannot be represented in the choosen codepage (in you case CP_ACP, i.e. The system default Windows ANSI codepage), then it is replaced by a default one, see WideCharToMultiByte documentation [^].
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