Re: Toolbar Alignment - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Vaclav_24-Feb-14 9:26

24-Feb-14 9:26

I have a CMDIChildWnd derived frame – a static splitter - and would like to dynamically modify its menu.
I used Spy and MFC tracer to find out what messages are send when the mouse hovers over the menu item - WM_NCHITTEST with HTMENU parameter.
WindowProc should intercept the message, however the doc is not clear where the message goes, and I cannot see it in the frame.
Is there a way to use Spy or MFC trace to find where to process the “nonclient” message?
Any help is as always greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Vaclav

Answer
<b>To the main frame of the MFC app where OnNcHitTest can process it.
</b>

-- modified 25-Feb-14 12:17pm.

Re: Where is the WM_NCHITTEST send?

«_Superman_»24-Feb-14 15:47

«_Superman_»

24-Feb-14 15:47

The menu belongs to the frame.
So you need to create a handler for the WM_NCHITTEST message in the CMDIFrameWnd derived class.

The handler would look something like this -

LRESULT CMainFrame::OnNcHitTest(CPoint point)
{
	LRESULT result =  CMDIFrameWnd::OnNcHitTest(point);

	if (HTMENU == result)
	{
		AfxMessageBox(L"On the menu");
	}

	return result;
}

The thing to keep note is that the message box will popup whenever the mouse hovers anywhere on the menu bar and not only on the menu items.

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Re: Where is the WM_NCHITTEST send?

Vaclav_25-Feb-14 3:02

Vaclav_

25-Feb-14 3:02

Thanks for the reply.
I can detect the mouse hits, but only on the title bar of the splitter frame.
I may have problem with the adittional window whose function is to provide tab access to additional documents.
I am still not sure where the message goes from the frame menu.
I'll keep working on that, thanks for the suggestion, it really helps.
Cheers
Vaclav

Re: Where is the WM_NCHITTEST send?

Vaclav_25-Feb-14 5:32

Vaclav_

25-Feb-14 5:32

OK, I am making progress.
Using default MDI app I can see the WM_NCHITTEST being processed ( WindowProc) by main frame - the menus hits, and by the doc/view frame - the window title area.
I am getting message #867 (?) as hit in my frame menu and WindowsProc in splitter ( my frame) catching it but since it is not near WM_NCHITTEST it is not processed.
I need to find out about this rogue 867 message origin.

Re: Where is the WM_NCHITTEST send?

«_Superman_»25-Feb-14 17:44

«_Superman_»

25-Feb-14 17:44

The code that I posted earlier is working code on a default MDI application.
Here is some information on command routing in an MDI application - Command Routing Illustration[^]

The message #867(0x363) is an internal MFC message defined as -
#define WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI 0x0363

You can find this in the afxpriv.h header file.

Here is some information about internal MFC messages - MFC Defined Messages[^]

Here is an excerpt from the above link -
WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI
This message is sent in idle time to implement the idle-time update of update-command UI handlers.

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Re: Where is the WM_NCHITTEST send?

Vaclav_27-Feb-14 9:21

Vaclav_

27-Feb-14 9:21

Thanks for the update.
In retrospect - my "mistake" was not understanding how main frame non-client message gets back to windows message processing. After accessing the current active MDI frame I have a better understanding of things.
Of couse few "new" documents ( DirectShow graph) insterted during test and left in did not help.
Many thanks for your assistance, appreciate it.
Vaclav

Toolbar Alignment

akhil_sudheesh24-Feb-14 6:35

akhil_sudheesh

24-Feb-14 6:35

Hi, am new to coding and to mfc, am on an application development on mfc, the problem is in my toolbar alignment, i have 9 toolbars and i want to arrange as follows
T1-T2-T3-T4-T9
T5-T6-T7-T8
Am using VS2010 and already tried of "DockPaneLeftOf" but its not helping me whenever i rebuilt my project all toolbars is appearing in a single column. please help me out, am tired out of searching Cry | :((

Re: Toolbar Alignment

Maximilien24-Feb-14 6:57

Maximilien

24-Feb-14 6:57

Don't forget to remove the registry entry associated with your application.

The toolbar position might be written and read from the registry and position you try to setup in the code will be overridden by that.

Also, be careful at the order you call DockPaneLeftOf; I think that you need to order them from right to left:

C++

DockPaneLeftOf(&T4, &T9);
DockPaneLeftOf(T3, T4);
DockPaneLeftOf(T2, T3);
DockPaneLeftOf(T1, T2);

Good luck.

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Toolbar Alignment

akhil_sudheesh24-Feb-14 17:29

akhil_sudheesh

24-Feb-14 17:29

Thanks it works for the docking Smile | :)

, but multiple columns i cant achieve that Frown | :(

Does SetRows function do this job, then how to implement SetRows()

modified 25-Feb-14 2:19am.

Re: Toolbar Alignment

akhil_sudheesh7-Mar-14 1:00

akhil_sudheesh

7-Mar-14 1:00

thanks for the replay,i did the following and i got the order well but its still on a single row as some of the toolbar is not visible, how to end up in multiple rows

DockPane(&m_wndMenuBar);
 DockPane(&tb9);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb8, &tb9);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb4, &tb8);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&m_wndToolBar, &tb4);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb1, &m_wndToolBar);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb7, &tb1);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb6, &tb7);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb3, &tb6);
 DockPaneLeftOf(&tb2, &tb3);

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MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

Member 997815423-Feb-14 22:47

Member 9978154

23-Feb-14 22:47

i want to write my own MAKEFILE for our Internal Compiler,if anyone having source code..please help me

Re: MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

Richard MacCutchan23-Feb-14 23:02

Richard MacCutchan

23-Feb-14 23:02

Please read http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/2922875/HOW-TO-ASK-A-QUESTION.aspx[^]. If you want source code then try searching for it. There are many websites with detailed information about makefiles and how they work.

Re: MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

jschell24-Feb-14 8:14

jschell

24-Feb-14 8:14

Member 9978154 wrote:
i want to write my own MAKEFILE for our Internal Compiler,if anyone having source code..

A make file might be consider source. A make file would be consumed by the "make" utility. You can look for examples of make files.

If you want to write your own "make" application (not make file) then that would be a different source. However in that case I question why you think you would need to modify make itself. Have you looked a the documentation and understood it? If yes then what feature do you think is missing for your internal compiler?

Re: MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

Member 997815424-Feb-14 23:05

Member 9978154

24-Feb-14 23:05

Thanx for your advice.But as we are developing our own debugger,so i want to develop my own makefile.
I want some source code...please suggest me

Re: MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

jschell26-Feb-14 8:51

jschell

26-Feb-14 8:51

Member 9978154 wrote:
But as we are developing our own debugger,so i want to develop my own makefile.

The former has nothing to do with the latter.

Member 9978154 wrote:
I want some source code...please suggest me

You can find open source for the make application.

Still no idea what you think you are going to get from it.

Re: MAKEFILE SOURCE CODE IN C LANGUAGE

C^hris L^osinger25-Feb-14 1:39

C^hris L^osinger

25-Feb-14 1:39

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/[^]

source code is available.

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How to embed webbrowser control in the MFC DLL

ilovevb23-Feb-14 12:50

ilovevb

23-Feb-14 12:50

How to embed webbrowser control in the MFC DLL?

Download this page by the MFC DLL and extract data.

thanks.

Re: How to embed webbrowser control in the MFC DLL

SoMad23-Feb-14 13:12

SoMad

23-Feb-14 13:12

I think you are talking about using the Internet Explorer based CDHtmlDialog[^] (MSDN sample[^]) or something like SimpleBrowser[^].
If you don't want to use Internet Explorer, look into Webkit[^] - I have not tried this out myself, so I am not sure how easy it is to use.

[EDIT]
Here is another useful CodeProject article: IWebBrowser2 Wrapper Class[^]
[/EDIT]

Soren Madsen

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Re: How to embed webbrowser control in the MFC DLL

ilovevb24-Feb-14 0:22

ilovevb

24-Feb-14 0:22

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Tooltips Won't Display

BarryPearlman23-Feb-14 5:46

BarryPearlman

23-Feb-14 5:46

The application (CFrameWndEx) creates a dialog box (CDialogEx) with future ambitions of adding CMFCTooltipCtrl etc. I am trying to just get CTooltipCtrl to work first. In the dialog class I have:

.h -

CToolTipCtrl* p_TTCtrl;

.ccp -

<pre lang="cs">p_TTCtrl = new CToolTipCtrl;
ASSERT(p_TTCtrl->Create(this));

CWnd* p_Wnd = this->GetDlgItem(IDCTL_Pref_CB_Exit);

VERIFY(p_TTCtrl->AddTool(p_Wnd, IDCTL_Pref_CB_Exit, NULL, 0));
p_TTCtrl->Activate(TRUE);</pre>

When I run the debugger, there are no ASSERT or Verify errors. If I hover over IDCtrl_Pref_CB which is a checkbox created from the .rc file, nothing happens.

Can someone please point out what I am missing or have wrong.

Thanks,

Barry

Re: Tooltips Won't Display

Richard Andrew x6423-Feb-14 10:53

Richard Andrew x64

23-Feb-14 10:53

Did you add the text for the tooltip? UpdateTipText()[^]

EDIT:

Nevermind, I didn't notice that the AddTool function already specifies the text.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

modified 23-Feb-14 17:04pm.

Re: Tooltips Won't Display

Vaclav_25-Feb-14 6:23

Vaclav_

25-Feb-14 6:23

In an ancient VC6.0 there is a "add C++ components " option which
does the grunt work of adding tooltip for you. I would guess that the latest VS has a similar tool.

Re: Tooltips Won't Display

BarryPearlman17-Jun-14 11:23

BarryPearlman

17-Jun-14 11:23

I found it. I was creating the CMFCTooltipCtrl class improperly.

Thanks for the effort,

Barry

How to shutdown my app gracefully at CMainFrame Initialization

sdancer7522-Feb-14 9:41

sdancer75

22-Feb-14 9:41

Maybe it sounds stupid, but how can i shutdown my app gracefully at CMainFrame Initialization ? I just want to do some system checks and if they fail, then immediately terminate the app before any window is created.

Any known methods like PostQuitMessage(0), PostMessage or OnClose etc fails because mainframe window is not created yet. Where to use exit code ?

PS: I dont want to use the InitInstance from my App.

Regards,

sdancer75

Re: How to shutdown my app gracefully at CMainFrame Initialization

«_Superman_»22-Feb-14 22:01

«_Superman_»

22-Feb-14 22:01

PostQuitMessage definitely works when called from the constructor of CMainFrame.

You can check the exit code using the function GetExitCodeProcess.
This can be used when invoking the application using the CreateProcess API, where it first waits for the program to terminate using the WaitForSingleObject function.

Otherwise you can get the exit code by checking the ERRORLEVEL variable when run from the command prompt or a batch file.
Here is more information on this - ERRORLEVEL is not %ERRORLEVEL%[^]

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Polymorphism in C

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