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Hello Mark,
I have a strange problem after subclassing the controls on the dialog. As you know we can view the caption of the control in Spy++ that comes with Visual Studio.
One of the control is a button and its caption is "&A", & is for shortcut. Before subclassing i could see the whole caption when i select this control in Spy++ and after subclassing i am able to see only "&". I am able to see the correct caption in the Properties of the button. So i am not sure where its going wrong?
Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance,
Hari krishna
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the color of text in an edit control when it is disabled; such that the light grey (disabled) is black instead.
Let's just say I have an edit control ('IDC_EDIT1').
CFont font; //in header
font.CreatePointFont(280, "Arial Bold");
CWnd *pWnd = ((CWnd*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1);
pWnd->EnableWindow(FALSE); //disables window
//now I'd like to change the color of the text so it stays black.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What about making the edit control read-only instead of disabling it?
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Hrm, actually that a good idea; but, I don't know how to do that, either.
I searched the web a little and found ES_READONLY.
Further reading landed me EM_SETREADONLY.
As I understand it, I need to call SendMessage to the window (editcontrol)
I tried:
pWnd->SendMessage(EM_SETREADONLY);
and
pWnd->SendMessage(ES_READONLY);
But neither work - I am still able to edit the contents.
What am I missing?
thanks.
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Like2Byte wrote: I tried:
pWnd->SendMessage(EM_SETREADONLY);
Try:
pWnd->SendMessage(EM_SETREADONLY, (WPARAM)TRUE);
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Ah, geez. 
I'm going to go put my head in the sand. Gimme 10 minutes.
Sincerely, thanks for the help!
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Like2Byte wrote: I'm going to go put my head in the sand.
Haha - that's the hard way to code! 
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Mark Salsbery wrote: that's the hard way to code!
No, that's the new age way to code. Having your head in the sand, or other equally dark places, is fine as long as you keep typing!
led mike
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Hi
I have a basic question about classic message loop of Win32 programs.
while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
if (!TranslateAccelerator(msg.hwnd, hAccelTable, &msg))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
}
Why doesn't this message loop take all processor time?
I also increment the priority level:
SetThreadPriority(GetCurrentThread(), THREAD_PRIORITY_HIGHEST);
In another MFC application i created a new thread with infinite loop( I mean in function there is only "infinite while loop", as classic win32 message loop) and also set priority to THREAD_PRIORITY_HIGHEST. That loop blocked all other threads. But why doesn't win32 message loop block other threads?
Thanks.
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sawerr wrote: Why doesn't this message loop take all processor time?
Because GetMessage() blocks until a message is available in the queue.
If you want it to spin and consume nearly all of the CPU time for a core,
use PeekMessage() instead of GetMessage().
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Mark Salsbery wrote: Because GetMessage() blocks until a message is available in the queue.
Is this something like that:
GetMessage()
{
while(true)
{
if(queue == EMPTY)
Sleep(100);
}
}
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We all would hope the Windows kernel is event driven, and not polling all the time.
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OK, but how can its pseudo-code be?
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Hi,
GetMessage() {
if(queue == EMPTY) {
queue.AddWaiter(currentThread);
SwitchToForemostReadyThread();
}
return queue.RemoveMsg();
}
PutMessage(Message msg) {
queue.AddMsg(msg);
if(queue.HasWaitersWithHigherPriority(myPriority)) {
Thread thread=queue.RemoveWaiter();
SwitchToThread(thread);
}
}
Not a single busy-wait or polling loop!
The heart in the matter is the SwitchTo...Thread() methods save the current thread
state on its stack, and load another thread's state from its stack, effectively
performing a "thread switch".
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sawerr wrote: Is this something like that
No, not at all.
Within GetMessage(), there's something like
GetMessage(...)
{
WaitForSingleObject(QueuedMessageEvent)
return message to caller
}
If the event isn't signalled when GetMessage() is called,
WaitForSingleObject() puts the thread in a "wait state", a state
where the thread is almost completely suspended - it uses VERY little
CPU time.
Using Sleep as you've shown is extremely inefficient.
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Hi I am new to mfc vc++,
In my application i want to have the uneditable combobox via code...
I dont want to use the dropdown list as a solution,
Please suggest me any other alternatives for this....
Thanks in advance
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hariakuthota wrote: I dont want to use the dropdown list as a solution,
Why?
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-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
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I dont want to use the dropdownlist because in my application based on the combobox selection another combo box has to be populated with the first combobox seleted item.
EX: if i click "alphabets"
i have to set the other combobox to this value,
and i am not able to use the m_combobox2.setwindowtext() and also
SetDlgItemText(idc_combobox2,"string");
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Try using SelectString instead of trying to set the text area directly.
Judy
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tried but thats not working properly...
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Possible you've to try better.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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As CPallini implies, the function does work correctly. You've done something wrong.
What does "it doesn't work" mean - with no code, we can't guess. Does the string you're trying to set exist in the second combo box?
Judy
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I dont want to use the dropdownlist because in my application based on the combobox selection another combo box has to be populated with the first combobox seleted item.
EX: if i click "alphabets"
i have to set the other combobox to this value,
and i am not able to use the m_combobox2.setwindowtext() and also
SetDlgItemText(idc_combobox2,"string"); if i use the dropdownlist
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Hi i am new to the concepts of mfc..
in my application i want to change the backgroung color of the button through ctlcolor for that i am ticking the option owner draw for the button.when i try to run the application i am getting abort error..
can anybody please suggest me the reason for this???
Thanks in advance...
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