C / C++ / MFC

9-Jul-03 3:15

Why must they uninstall the whole application just to get an updated EXE? Just have them shut down the application prior to running the setup program.

Initialize a List Box

Jay Hova9-Jul-03 2:46

9-Jul-03 2:46

Hi,

Still trying to get used to programming, and still need a little help. I asked a few questions yesterday about a texteditor, but since have changed my approach.

I wanted to know how to initialize a List Box to have text in it everytime the dialog starts up. Is this possible? If it is, is there a way to space out the text that I want to appear? I want it to look like this if possible:

Team1     Team 2    Team 3    Team 4

Thanks in advance!

Jay Hova9-Jul-03 2:52

9-Jul-03 2:52

Silly me....I got the text to come up.;P

Can anyone help with the formatting though?

Thanks again

keegan9-Jul-03 3:11

keegan

9-Jul-03 3:11

what do you mean by 'formatting?' if youre trying to get strings into a listbox, you can use

My_List_Box.AddString("hello");

if you mean turning off alphabetical sorting of the contents of the listbox, in the resource editor, witht he listbox selected, look in the properties window and set the 'Sort' value to False (or off, depending).

is that what you mean?

*.*

David Crow9-Jul-03 3:13

9-Jul-03 3:13

How you want the data formatted will govern whether you want/need to use a list box, list control, or a grid control.

Although it's possible to make a list box look like it has columns, it remains a one-column control that uses tab stops to separate the columns.

Jay Hova9-Jul-03 3:55

9-Jul-03 3:55

Sorry for not being clear...

I would like to have the words spaced out in the line of text. Just so that it is easier to read. I want it so that I do not have to manually hit the space bar between the words that i am gonna enter. Some of the information going on the lines are spaced further in that another like in the chart below.

Ideally I want my dialog box to look exactly like this:

           Team 1      Team 2      Team 3      Team 4
Game 1       80          69
Game 2                               79          70
Game 3       55                      73 
Game 4                   73                      82

Player #22 from Team 3 is the MVP of the tournament.  
He lead the team in points, rebounds, assists and steals.  
He also led the tournament in points (33.2), assists (8.9), and steals (3.2)

I thought about using a list control, but i couldn't get the last 3 sentences to appear across the columns.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

David Crow9-Jul-03 4:02

9-Jul-03 4:02

Use an edit control with a fixed-space font.

Jay Hova9-Jul-03 6:31

9-Jul-03 6:31

Hi,

I am really new to programming, and do not fully understand how to do this. (The fix spaced font)
Can you possible give more details on how to do this? Will this get my "table" to look exactly how i want it?

Thanks again. Sorry for being slow with this. Mechanical Engineers are not the best programmers! Poke tongue | ;-P

David Crow9-Jul-03 8:16

9-Jul-03 8:16

Just as an example, if you had a dialog box with an edit control, you could put the following in the dialog's OnInitDialog() method:

m_font.CreateStockObject(ANSI_FIXED_FONT);<br />
m_edit.SetFont(&m_font);

Now you just format each line that is added to the edit control.

Mustafa Demirhan9-Jul-03 12:48

Mustafa Demirhan

9-Jul-03 12:48

Use CListCtrl instead of CListBox. With the List Control, you can create columns. In your case, you need to create 4 columns and add the data to each column individually...

Mustafa Demirhan
http://www.macroangel.com
Sonork ID 100.9935:zoltrix

<nobr>They say I'm lazy but it takes all my time

Jay Hova10-Jul-03 0:53

dialog menu & update_command_ui

10-Jul-03 0:53

Hi,

I tried doing that, but is there a way for me to insert the 3 sentences that follow the chart and span them over the columns. I was originally using the list control, but could not find a way to do that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Fonts and Colors

The_Server9-Jul-03 2:36

The_Server

9-Jul-03 2:36

Hi all (again)
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I have a Win32 application ... (Not using MFC)
and my dialog I have a button control (IDC_MY_BUTTON)
and I need to change the color of its text...

Please Help..

BTW:
I change the buttons font using WM_SETFONT,
everything OK, but I cant change the font to "Comic Sans MS"

10q all

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The Server Rose | [Rose]

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Re: Fonts and Colors

56789012349-Jul-03 3:46

5678901234

9-Jul-03 3:46

Handle WM_CTLCOLORBTN message in button's parent. Make required changes in DC passed in message parameter.

Process Status

Majid Shahabfar9-Jul-03 2:13

Majid Shahabfar

9-Jul-03 2:13

Hi,
I'm looking for a function to return the status of a process.
status such as Running or Not Responding.
Thank u in advance.

Re: Process Status

valikac9-Jul-03 5:44

valikac

9-Jul-03 5:44

One solution is WaitForSingleObject().

Kuphryn

Re: Process Status

Mike Dimmick9-Jul-03 6:38

Mike Dimmick

9-Jul-03 6:38

GetExitCodeProcess() returns the process's exit code, or STILL_ACTIVE if the process is running.

As for getting 'running' or 'not responding' in the sense of the Applications tab of Task Manager (in Windows NT), I think Task Manager has some kind of hook to be able to tell this. You could try using SendMessageTimeout() to send a message to the top-level window - if it responds within the timeout, it's responding. I'd suggest using either WM_NULL or a guaranteed-unique registered message from RegisterWindowMessage() - perhaps a string representation of a GUID?

--
Mike Dimmick

Steve L.9-Jul-03 1:59

Steve L.

9-Jul-03 1:59

I've added a menu to a dialog application and am trying to grey out some parts of the menu. However, the call to my UPDATE_COMMAND_UI function is not called until after the the menu has been clicked. I'm guessing I have to do something different since it is a dialog app, but I don't know what and can't seem to find it. How can I do this?

Thanks in advanced

Re: dialog menu & update_command_ui

Scozturk9-Jul-03 3:20

Scozturk

9-Jul-03 3:20

Hi!
This code may help you!It has everything about changing dynamically menu items:
void CExampleView::OnUpdateEditInsertolecontrol(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
// TODO: Add your command update UI handler code here

// Specific for the example
pCmdUI->Enable(m_pControl == NULL);
}

void CExampleView::OnEditInsertolecontrol()
{
// TODO: Add your command handler code here
COCBrowserDoc* pDoc = GetDocument();
ASSERT_VALID(pDoc);

// Your code ...

// Change menu item (Insert OLE Object -> Delete OLE Object)
CMenu *menu;

// 'Edit' is the second submenu (index = 1)
menu = AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->GetMenu()->GetSubMenu(1);
menu->ModifyMenu(ID_EDIT_INSERTOLECONTROL, MF_BYCOMMAND, ID_EDIT_DELETEOLECONTROL, "&Delete OLE Control");

}

void CExampleView::OnUpdateEditDeleteolecontrol(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
// TODO: Add your command update UI handler code here

// Specific for the example
pCmdUI->Enable(m_pControl!= NULL);
}

void CExampleView::OnEditDeleteolecontrol()
{
// TODO: Add your command handler code here

// Your code ...

// Change menu item (Delete OLE Object -> Insert OLE Object )
CMenu *menu;

menu = AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->GetMenu()->GetSubMenu(1);
menu->ModifyMenu(ID_EDIT_DELETEOLECONTROL, MF_BYCOMMAND, ID_EDIT_INSERTOLECONTROL, "&Insert OLE Control...");
}

I didn't write it myself I got it from this website http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/people/Past/fuentes/Mfc/mfc.html

Well... I am a beginner ...

GDI+ Memory leak

sdanu9-Jul-03 1:23

sdanu

9-Jul-03 1:23

I am facing problem with GDI+ bitmap memory deallocation.
delete of the the bitmap doesn't release the memory it gets accumulated and it doesn't free up the memory until i close my application.

And i end up in virtual memory problem since it eats up all the memory and crashes my application.

Please suggest a scenario where in i can delete my bitmap pointers memory and run my applicaiton without any problem.

Thanks in Advance.

Rage9-Jul-03 1:58

Rage

9-Jul-03 1:58

No. You can intercept them, so as to redirect them to your app, but you can't do anything to the message itself.

~RaGE();

Ryan Binns9-Jul-03 2:22

Ryan Binns

9-Jul-03 2:22

Rage wrote:
but you can't do anything to the message itself.

Almost. a WH_GETMESSAGE hook can modify the message, but not delete it.

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Ryan Binns9-Jul-03 2:28

Ryan Binns

9-Jul-03 2:28

A WH_MSGFILTER hook can delete messages as well as modify them.

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"