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Get Client Area Excluding Scroll Bar

6-Jul-12 4:09

I want to setup a default value if the string contain non haxa characters ...

Re: Format INT_MAX

David Crow6-Jul-12 4:41

David Crow

6-Jul-12 4:41

I realize that, but since you are not actually doing any formatting, why not just use:

m_sHex = _T("FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF");

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AmbiguousName5-Jul-12 19:30

AmbiguousName

5-Jul-12 19:30

hello guys... I am trying to get the client area of my CListCtrl which shows vertical scroll bar when needed. The View is set to Report. Now, to prevent horizontal scrollbar, I am setting the width my column manually like this.

LVCOLUMN col;
CListCtrl->GetClientArea(&Rect1);
col.cx = (Rect1.right - Rect1.left) - 20;

But I want to set the width of my column based on something like this

CListCtrl->GetClientArea(&Rect1);
GetClientArea(ScrollBar of CListCtrl) // what to do to get client area of scroll bar?

LVCOLUMN col;
col.cx = (Rect1.right - Rect1.left) - Width of Vertical ScrollBar; // see?

But I don't have a clue how to get width of this built-in scrollbar OR how to get width of CListCtrl exluding ScrollBar? Thanks for any pointers.

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Re: Get Client Area Excluding Scroll Bar

Jochen Arndt5-Jul-12 21:32

Jochen Arndt

5-Jul-12 21:32

GetClientRect() (not GetClientArea) returns the client area of the list control. The area of optional scroll bars is not included in the returned rectangle. So GetClientRect() returns different rectangles when scroll bars are present or not.

The size of the vertical scroll bar can be determined using GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVSCROLL). You may use this value upon list initialization (with empty list when no vertical scroll bar is shown) to preserve space for the scroll bar.

One instance of object

_Flaviu5-Jul-12 7:17

5-Jul-12 7:17

How can I provide one instance only for an object ? And here I'm not refer to CMyWinApp (one instance of an application), but a custom object ? It's an interview question ... Smile | :)

David Crow5-Jul-12 7:22

David Crow

5-Jul-12 7:22

Hint: singleton.

fat_boy5-Jul-12 8:13

5-Jul-12 8:13

Create a static count in the object and increment it in the constructor?

_Flaviu5-Jul-12 20:07

5-Jul-12 20:07

Ok, and when second instance is about to be executed, how can I stop it then ?

fat_boy5-Jul-12 21:26

5-Jul-12 21:26

Use a get instance static member func to do that.

Stefan_Lang5-Jul-12 22:35

Stefan_Lang

5-Jul-12 22:35

In header file:

C++

class myUniqueClass {
private:
   myUniqueClass();                        // default constructor is private!
   myUniqueClass(const myUniqueClass&);    // copy constructor is private, too!
   static myUniqueClass* myUniqueInstance;
public:
   static myUniqueClass* getInstance();
   // put the real functionality below
   // ...
};

In cpp file:

C++

myUniqueClass* myUniqueClass::myUniqueInstance = 0;
myUniqueClass::getInstance() {
   if (myUniqueInstance == 0) {
      myUniqueInstance = new myUniqueClass;
   }
   return myUniqueInstance;
}

Explanation:
The two private constructors prevent the uncontrolled creation of a new instance, or the copying of the one, valid instance. The getInstance function creates the one instance if necessary: as a member function it can use the private constructor.

_Flaviu5-Jul-12 23:08

5-Jul-12 23:08

And when I want to work with this object, I write :

C++

myUniqueClass* pUniqueClass = myUniqueClass::GetInstance();

I'm right ? And what is happen when object goes out of scope ? I have memory leak ?

Stefan, I thank you very much !!

modified 6-Jul-12 6:38am.

fat_boy6-Jul-12 0:14

6-Jul-12 0:14

Of course there is nothing to stop someone totally ignoring the GetInstance func and just creating their own, so it depends on your question, do you want to *force* users to have only one instance.

_Flaviu6-Jul-12 0:39

6-Jul-12 0:39

I think that is impossible to create a new instance of myUniqueClass because have private constructor ...

fat_boy6-Jul-12 1:31

6-Jul-12 1:31

Good point. Smile | :)

Stefan_Lang6-Jul-12 5:33

Stefan_Lang

6-Jul-12 5:33

Correct. getInstance is used to access the single object.

You are correct that the code above produces a memory leak. The problem is that the only way to avoid it is to create and destroy it from another singleton! In a windows application, you could implement that in your WinApp class. In a console program you could do it in main().

Also, as Luc Pattyn mentioned in his response, my code can not prevent the creation of a second instance in multithreaded code: the creation of the instance (and the preceeding test of the pointer) has to be locked. However that is only a problem until the first instance is created, so you can solve this by creating the instance at the start of the program in main() or your WinApp class.

Luc Pattyn6-Jul-12 0:47

Luc Pattyn

6-Jul-12 0:47

And what about thread safety? If you're unlucky two threads calling getInstance() at the same time may cause two objects being created. There are many ways to create a Singleton pattern, lots of the attempts are just wrong, only a few are correct without showing too much of a performance hit. Look at several articles on the subject here at CP, or elsewhere.

Smile | :)

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fat_boy6-Jul-12 1:30

6-Jul-12 1:30

Yep, of course it needs lock protecting.