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Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

13-Oct-11 22:39

We know that MFC does not have Good UI controls. I am searching for a UI library either free or paid library(paid should have few days trial license so that I can test the performance).

My application is a Trading application so UI library must be fast and stable(No memory leaks). There will be immediate text updates, chart updates(LineCharts, bar, graphs), market-watch updates which show prices of shares and other details whith change of twice, thrice or sometimes 10times in a second.

Let me know if any other details are needed.

Thanks,
Rahul Kulshreshtha

_AnsHUMAN_ 13-Oct-11 23:45

_AnsHUMAN_

13-Oct-11 23:45

I would prefer Qt Library[^]

You talk about Being HUMAN. I have it in my name
AnsHUMAN

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

App_14-Oct-11 0:42

App_

14-Oct-11 0:42

Yes QtGui on Linux.

I's so easy to learn , like so:

#include <QtGui>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    QLabel label("Hello, world!");
    label.show();
    return app.exec();
}

more here

Why even use windows? Wall street trading systems all use Red Hat/SUSE.
Windows is mostly relegated to the back office, Windows typically has larger latency times than that of Linux.

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

rahul.kulshreshtha14-Oct-11 7:17

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

14-Oct-11 7:17

My application is already ready for windows platforms, now I am tweaking the things and changing UI to catch more peoples. So I am bound to windows and Visual Studio Wink | ;)

rahul.kulshreshtha14-Oct-11 7:14

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

14-Oct-11 7:14

I had a little experience with QT, but I don't know if it has UI controls which I need. Can you suggest a website for that?

_AnsHUMAN_ 16-Oct-11 18:51

_AnsHUMAN_

16-Oct-11 18:51

Well! The link I shared had some forward links to the examples for using the Qt Lib.

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AnsHUMAN

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

Maximilien14-Oct-11 1:05

Maximilien

14-Oct-11 1:05

rahul.kulshreshtha wrote:
know that MFC does not have Good UI controls.

I don't know this. why do you believe it is so ?

In my experience, most "generic" 3rd party UI kit turn out to be more pain than necessary and become hell to support after a few years.

I find that MFC (with the new-ish improvements) will satisfy 95% of our development need; the rest of our need will be filled by specialized controls (most of the time home-made)

Watched code never compiles.

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

Stefan_Lang14-Oct-11 6:25

Stefan_Lang

14-Oct-11 6:25

In the time I worked with MFC I gathered a lot of painful memories stemming from bad documentation*, undefined behaviour, and applications silently breaking upon OS updates. I happily haven't been actively working with it for years now, but the API is still horrible and anything but what a clean, modern OO API should be. Who in his right mind would design an OO interface that requires you to fiddle apart some obscure parameter into several parts? (LPARAM anyone?)

I've been working with XT Toolkit Pro and it's a much more modern and consistent API. It does offer better UI components too, but of course that's an IMHO.

True, nothing prevents you to keep using an outdated GUI API if it fulfills your needs. The question is if it still fulfills your client's needs! Besides, I doubt that MS will continue to put any more work into MFC once W8 and Metro are out. So if you're starting on a new project aimed at more than just your personal needs, using MFC is certainly not the best way to go.

* P.S.: I have to admit that the MFC online documentation has quite improved, though I find the process of retrieveing a specific bit of information from MSDN a lot more time consuming than it used to be in the days of .hlp files.

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

rahul.kulshreshtha14-Oct-11 7:20

Re: third party ui controls for MFC

14-Oct-11 7:20

Thanks, I will check out XT toolkit also

Software_Developer14-Oct-11 1:44

Software_Developer

14-Oct-11 1:44

Hi Rahul

Here are ome suggestions for you from Codeproject:
High-speed Charting Control for MFC , CBarChart is a simple MFC control for MFC, A 2D data visualisation class for MFC, Scientific charting control for MFC:

Some suggestions that cost money:
Xtreme ToolkitPro for MFC for MFC , Xtreme Chart Pro for MFC , TeeChart Pro for MFC , iocomp

Re: third party ui controls for MFC

rahul.kulshreshtha14-Oct-11 7:09

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

14-Oct-11 7:09

Thanks I will check out these.

Rolf Kristensen14-Oct-11 9:54

Rolf Kristensen

14-Oct-11 9:54

Implement the GUI in .NET that can communicate with whatever backend.

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

rahul.kulshreshtha20-Oct-11 20:04

Re: Suggest a third party library for MFC applications

20-Oct-11 20:04

Thanks all for answering,
After going through the suggestions suggested by all of you. I shortlisted 3 libraries which I can use.

1. BCG UI library
2. CodeJock's XtToolkit Pro
3. Prof-UIs

But still one component is missing, I am also looking for a Grid in which cells can be formatted as "Conditional Formating -> Data bars" similar to excel 2007

I want something similar to this

Example 1
Example 2

Thanks,
Rahul

rahul.kulshreshtha30-Oct-11 20:51

30-Oct-11 20:51

For the grid which have conditional formatting; I chose Ultimate Grid.

File Locations on Win 7

softwaremonkey13-Oct-11 10:55

13-Oct-11 10:55

Hi,

Not sure if this question belongs here but I wondered if there is a location on the disk where I can gaurantee that I can always write a file to under Windows 7. In the good old days of XP I could use C:\ but thats a no-no (I guess it was under XP but hey!).

Thanks

Tony Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

André Kraak13-Oct-11 11:08

André Kraak

13-Oct-11 11:08

You could use the C:\Users\Public\Documents folder for this.
All users on a Windows 7 machine should have access to it.

0100000101101110011001000111001011101001

_AnsHUMAN_ 13-Oct-11 20:21

_AnsHUMAN_

13-Oct-11 20:21

C:\Users\username\AppData could be just the place you are looking for.

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AnsHUMAN

«_Superman_»13-Oct-11 22:03

«_Superman_»

13-Oct-11 22:03

AppData it is.
Get the path to this folder using the API SHGetSpecialFolderPath with CSIDL_APPDATA as the nFolder parameter.

«_Superman_»
I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.

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softwaremonkey13-Oct-11 22:50

13-Oct-11 22:50

Thanks guys that's great Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Snorri Kristjansson14-Oct-11 1:27

Snorri Kristjansson

14-Oct-11 1:27

Hi,

Probably the best bet is to use [CommonApplicationData] folder (C:\ProgramData), one problem though - it's a hidden folder so users will have a problem finding it if they need to.

Anyway...
I was researching this same topic a few weeks ago. I thought I might share a few links to info regarding this subject:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjacks/archive/2008/02/05/where-should-i-write-program-data-instead-of-program-files.aspx[^]

http://www.perceler.com/articles1.php?art=specfolder1[^]

http://codefromthe70s.org/vistatutorial.aspx[^]

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=282955[^]

Allow write/modify access to CommonApplicationData[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905330.aspx[^]

softwaremonkey14-Oct-11 10:13

14-Oct-11 10:13

Thanks for info and the links. It has made me realise that I should not take the lazy way out and need to do things properly.

Good to see I am not on my own though Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

jkirkerx14-Oct-11 7:49

jkirkerx

14-Oct-11 7:49

I ran into that too last week on Windows 7,

I ended up using Windows\Temp for now

I tried Documents Setting\account\Application Data\My Folder

but ran into issues with the long names, and file not found when pointing to config files I put in it.

softwaremonkey14-Oct-11 10:21