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I would be grateful.
Thank you,
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I just built your program from the code in your previous message. I had to add a couple of minor things in the .rc file because of changes in the Win32 libraries. After building the code it runs successfully; i.e. it shows the main dialog with an empty ListView.
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Can you please tell me where these adjustments were? So I can take a look at me? Teach me how to fix that problems, where to look. Because it can be from the dialog resource to not load properly the DialogBox and not to go to the Dialog procedure from that reason.
Where can be the problem on me? ( I am using VS 2010 and I did't had problems with it until now).
Thank you,
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I do not think they will help since they are just there to simulate what is provided by VS2010. However you can add them to the beginning of the .rc file to see what happens:
#include <winresrc.h>
#define APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#define LBX_NOINTEGRAL_HEIGHT LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT
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Hmmm....
When I am creating a new empty project, when I choose to add a new .rc file, in this .rc file it's added automatically some code in that file, I was glad to see that, BUT!!!  , it's appears that somewhere here was some problems or I wasn't pay attention on something, now I have copied exactly the content of the .rc file provided with the book, and now when I run the project, it's appearing an empty dialog box, it is emty, without the ListWiew, but it's a great start.
I will put tomorrow the content of the file from the book because I am very tired now, and for shure we will see the
critical diferences and for shure I will learn from that.
Whoa, I am so glad, we will find and figure out what the clue is, thank you Richard for your patience.
Thank you,
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Comed back with the differences:
Automated .rc file produced by VC with code introduced by me in bad position:
#include "resource.h"
#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#include "afxres.h"
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
LANGUAGE 9, 1
#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
IDI_DIRWALK ICON DISCARDABLE "DirWalk.Ico"
<---*******THIS BOLDED TEXT IS IN THE APSTUDIO_INVOKED DEFINITION
<---***** it shouln not be here
<---***** THIS WAS THE FATAL ERROR
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V
IDD_DIRWALK DIALOG DISCARDABLE 10, 18, 250, 250
STYLE WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | WS_POPUP|
WS_VISIBLE| WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | WS_THICKFRAME | DS_MODALFRAME
CAPTION "Directory Walk"
FONT 8, "System"
BEGIN
LISTBOX IDC_TREE,0,0,0,0,NOT LBS_NOTIFY |
LBX_NOINTEGRAL_HEIGHT | NOT WS_BORDER |
WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL | WS_GROUP |
WS_TABSTOP
END
1 TEXTINCLUDE
BEGIN
"resource.h\0"
END
2 TEXTINCLUDE
BEGIN
"#include ""afxres.h""\r\n"
"\0"
END
3 TEXTINCLUDE
BEGIN
"\r\n"
"\0"
END
#endif // APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#endif // English (United States) resources
#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#endif // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED
So, the dialog definition was placed wrong, inside the APSTUDIO definition and for this reason the DialogBox were failing.
That was the super thing that was busted my brains and others time.
And that LBX_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT generated from VC must transformed in LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT, as you were saying Richard
I almost forgot, this is the code from the book:
#include "Resource.h"
#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#include "afxres.h"
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
#ifdef _WIN32
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
#pragma code_page(1252)
#endif // _WIN32
IDI_DIRWALK ICON DISCARDABLE "DirWalk.Ico"
IDD_DIRWALK DIALOG DISCARDABLE 10, 18, 250, 250
STYLE WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | WS_POPUP |
WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | WS_THICKFRAME
CAPTION "Directory Walk"
FONT 8, "System"
BEGIN
LISTBOX IDC_TREE,0,0,0,0,NOT LBS_NOTIFY |
LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | NOT WS_BORDER |
WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL | WS_GROUP |
WS_TABSTOP
END
#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
1 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"Resource.h\0"
END
2 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"#include ""afxres.h""\r\n"
"\0"
END
3 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
"\r\n"
"\0"
END
#endif // APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#endif // U.S. English Resources
#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
#endif // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED
Remains still the listbox, that is't displayed yet, I don't still know why but now I have hope.
Thank you,
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I just added your corrected .rc file to the project I have and it builds correctly. And when I run it, it shows the (empty) ListBox as expected.
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I have now modified the Dlg_OnInitDialog function as below and the ListBox gets populated with file and directory names.
BOOL Dlg_OnInitDialog(HWND hwnd, HWND hwndFocus, LPARAM lParam)
{
RECT rc;
char szPath[MAX_PATH];
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, TRUE, (LPARAM)LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hwnd), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_DIRWALK)));
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, FALSE, (LPARAM)LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hwnd), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_DIRWALK)));
GetClientRect(hwnd, &rc);
SetWindowPos(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_TREE), NULL, 0, 0, rc.right, rc.bottom, SWP_NOZORDER);
strcpy(szPath, "< path to the directory to search >");
DlgDirList(hwnd, szPath, IDC_TREE, 0, DDL_DIRECTORY | DDL_READWRITE);
return(TRUE);
}
Note that the DlgDirList function needs to write into szPath so it must be created in the way I have shown.
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Yes,
My Listbox was empty and I was't observed that it was a Listbox.
Thank you, see you soon with new topics.
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I ran a further test and discovered that the resource compiler did not generate the correct output file. The resulting resource object was missing the dialog, so that was why your code immediately terminated. However, I cannot reproduce your environment as I do not have the old version of Visual Studio. So the corrections I made are to make use of the Visual Studio 2022 environment.
As I keep saying, stop wasting time with this out of date code (and book) and move on to the latest version of Visual Studio, and the associated documentation.
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Hi,
I am trying implementing this function:
BOOL Dlg_OnInitDialog (HWND hwnd, HWND hwndFocus, LPARAM lParam)
{
RECT rect;
chSETDLGICONS(hwnd, IDI_DIRWALK, IDI_DIRWALK);
return(TRUE);
}
But the compiler give me this error: error C2065: 'strucure' : undeclared identifier, suggesting me that
the error is at the chSETDLGICONS.
The chSETDLGICONS is defined as a macro in a .h file:
#define chINITSTRUCT(structure, fInitSize) \
(ZeroMemory(&(strucure), sizeof(structure)), \
fInitSize ? (*(int*) &(structure) = sizeof(structure)) : 0)
#define chSETDLGICONS(hwnd, idiLarge, idiSmall) \
{ \
OSVERSIONINFO VerInfo; \
chINITSTRUCT(VerInfo, TRUE); \
GetVersionEx(&VerInfo); \
if ((VerInfo.dwPlatformId == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) && \
(VerInfo.dwMajorVersion <=3 && \
VerInfo.dwMinorVersion <= 51)) \
{ \
SetClassLong(hwnd, GCL_HICON, (LONG) \
LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hwnd), \
MAKEINTRESOURCE(idiLarge))); \
} \
else \
{ \
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, TRUE, (LPARAM) \
LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hWnd), \
MAKEINTRESOURCE(idilarge))); \
SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SECTION, FALSE, (LPARAM) \
LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hwnd), \
MAKEINTRESOURCE(idiSmall))); \
} \
}
From what I am seeing, structure is an identifier used in chINITSTRUCT function that is used in chSETDLGICONS, and I don't know how to repair that error.
Please help me with this.
Thank you in advance.
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Small typo: strucure instead of structure in first argument to ZeroMemeory
Mircea
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Found it, found it,
coco243 wrote: #define chINITSTRUCT(structure, fInitSize) \
(ZeroMemory(&(strucure), sizeof(structure)), \
fInitSize ? (*(int*) &(structure) = sizeof(structure)) : 0)
I have eaten an "t" letter on second row.
But I have another errors, I will repost after I look over.
Thak you.
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Are you seriously targeting Windows versions prior to 3.5 ? 
All the fluff chSETDLGICONS goes through is completely useless. My advice would be to replace it with the last 2 SendMessage calls:
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, TRUE, (LPARAM) \
LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hWnd), \
MAKEINTRESOURCE(idilarge))); \
SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SECTION, FALSE, (LPARAM) \
LoadIcon(GetWindowInstance(hwnd), \
MAKEINTRESOURCE(idiSmall)));
Mircea
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Don't laugh about me I am learning WINAPI from an old book . ( I have understand it that is no sense
to check if windows is less than 3.5 )
Until now, I had to compile code that was written with WindProc procedure, but the author has now been found to shoot me
in the knee with message crackers ( now I am google it for them to understand them ).
I hope to go with this code until the finish, because I have to handle and with those macro funcions now.
Aniway I am confident because I have your help.
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Honestly, I don't think it's that useful to learn Win32 API. World has moved over to other technologies in the last 20-25 years. Whatever books you find, they are old (not much money to be made by authors writing about a dead subject) and the skills you acquire they are not in high demand.
Mircea
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I am feeling too that I am not quite on the right path. I wanted to enter in the world of programming and I started to
learn C++. Then I said that C++ is a tool, and I realized that I have to do something with this tool and I have start
to learn WINAPI beacause I wanted to be capable to design some interfaces from scrap. This was the path that I choose to
walk through and I keept going, good or bad that was what I knew to do. Now I am at the finish of this WINAPI book and I am
planning to learn and some data bases.
I want to enter in the world of programming and to be able to work on my own, if you have advices for me I am more than
glad to count on them.
Thank you very much,
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coco243 wrote: if you have advices for me I am more than
glad to count on them.
Well, I am sorry to say that you have probably wasted your time learning the Windows API. Especially so if you now want to learn database programming. You really need to move into the .NET field if you expect to make a career in programming. .NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold[^] is an excellent introduction. Beyond that there are plenty of free tutorials online, for advanced C# and database programming. A word of warning: stay clear of youtube tutorials as they tend to be less than good quality.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Well, I am sorry to say that you have probably wasted your time learning the Windows API
I saw in that a possibility to learn making an user interface in my desire to make stand alone applications.
Richard MacCutchan wrote: Especially so if you now want to learn database programming
I don't necessary want to learn database programming but I consider that when you build applications you would need to use databases at some time.
Richard MacCutchan wrote: You really need to move into the .NET field if you expect to make a career in programming. .NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold[^] is an excellent introduction.
Thank you for the advice, and for the resource link.
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coco243 wrote: I saw in that a possibility to learn making an user interface in my desire to make stand alone applications.
Which is so much easier to do in .NET as the framework does all the detailed fiddling about, and leaves you to focus on the actual presentation and business logic.
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Thank you for your thoughts, I will end this WINAPI subject book because I have a few chapters until the end and I have to finish what I have started and I will start reading your sugested documentation about .NET because, honestly I don't have a clear image about what .NET it is and could de but I think that the fact that I had learned something about WINAPI apps will help me to beter understanding.
Thank you.
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If you learn something for the intention of making yourself an income, then the Win32 API is not the right choice in the year 2025. On the other hand ...
I learned Windows programming before there was a WIN32 API, it was way back in the 16-bit days of the "WIN16 API" (it was never called that). My primary learning was not an API, but event driven programming: Taking your data structures from one consistent state to another consistent state in well defined, atomic steps. Always leaving your data so that it can be properly used by anyone else the next time something happens. No loose ends, no garbage on the floor. Looking upon each event cycle similar to a database transaction. A great philosophy for building robust software.
Often, programmers show me code: 'See, I am doing event driven programming too - here is the switch case on the input value!' But even driven is so much more than a switch statement. What I see is a lot of other logic that is not at all related to the state and event, lots of loose ends, lots of garbage variables affecting the state without being treated as state data. The Windows model put a strong pressure on you to do 'clean' event driven coding.
Today, working in C#, I still think in event/state terms, taking data structures through well defined, finite processing steps from on consistent state to another. I didn't learn that from any book published this millennium. I didn't learn it from younger coworkers. I didn't learn it from browsing programming forums on the Internet. I learned it from the Windows API.
I am really happy to have that background when programming in the year 2022, with the tools of year 2022. Learning the Windows API / event driven programming was certainly no waste of time. It has great value for me, even today.
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Although I am not initiated in programming, I felt it when I started to learn C++ and MFC despite C#, that C++ is more closer to the hardware components, to the heart of the machine, I felt that with C++ I can put my hands and get dirty, and so on that with WINAPI I can comunicate more closer with WINDOWS system, through the windows API functions, I felt that those are the right and honest stpes to get started in programming, I felt that these are the basics that I have to know to start an healty way of programming. But my goal is as you expressed yourself " to make myself an income" and for that appears that I have to learn more tools to be able to deliver a stand alone product. I don't know if my path is the good one but I keep pushing until I will succed.
Thank you.
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