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Hello all,
I'm currently encountering a frustrating nuance (bug?) when trying to use comboboxes in MFC applications in visual studio. Basically I do this:
- go through the project wizard, create a dialog application, using MFC in a static library
- create a combobox in the dialog view (I set sort to true) note: i use the style 'drop list'
- add combobox as a control variable to the dialog
- create a simple button which calls InsertString or AddString on the just-created combobox variable.
- Run app (debug or release, doesn't seem to matter)
- Combobox after having InsertString and/or AddString called looks empty like this:
http://img248.echo.cx/img248/530/brokencombobox2yj.jpg
Notice it appears empty even after calling AddString. However, interestingly if i call SetCurSel(0) after AddString the entry in index 0 appears, but none of the other added entries do.
So I'm quite interested and frustrated to find out what is going on here. I downloaded the demo project from:
http://codeproject.com/combobox/combobox_tut.asp, opened it in MSVS 2003 .NET, converted it, compiled, and lauched. Suprise, the droplist displays correctly.
See:
http://img248.echo.cx/img248/7476/workingdroplist4uh.jpg
However, if i modify the dialog of the combobox tutorial, create a new combobox, and a button that adds entries to it, it does not display correctly as previously shown.
Note that I do have MSVS 2002 and 2003 installed on my dev machine. However I'm not using an managed code so there is nothing being cross-referenced. I also have a laptop with only a copy of MSVS 2002 and all of this appears to be identical on there. Additionally on my brothers computer, which only has 2003 on it, it is the same.
Can anyone provide some insight as to what I'm missing, or what is going on here? I've tried everything from messing with project settings to manually editing resource files.
Please!
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It looks from the first pic its a case of you not sizing the drop down list. Did you size it in the dialog editor?
 Pssst. You see that little light on your monitor? That's actually a government installed spy camera. Smile and wave to big brother!
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Not sure what you mean. I selected combobox from the form/dialog toolbar, and dragged a rectangle on the dialog in the dialog editor. Is that what you mean? Same way I create a button or any other control I would be using.
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Select the combobox in the resource editor and resize the height of the dropdown part.
/ravi
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Of the tens of thousands of MFC questions that I've seen since MFC was released in the early 90's, this has got to be the question I've seen posted most often.
You would think *someone* at MS would take note and make that interface a bit easier on such a trivial task 
Cheers,
Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group
"So look up ahead at times to come, despair is not for us. We have a world and more to see, while this remains behind." - James N. Rowe
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Worse yet, a project including an XP manifest will automatically size the drop list for you, giving the false impression that you've already sized the drop list manually in the dialog editor...
You're reminded quickly of the problem when you give the program to someone using a Win98/2K machine, at which point they think you're playing some type of dirty psychological trick on them because they can't select anything from any of the combo boxes.
Pssst. You see that little light on your monitor? That's actually a government installed spy camera. Smile and wave to big brother!
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Yes. This is part of what I was encountering. It just wasn't working on my work (win2k) machine. Grr!
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Good lord I was hoping it was something as simple as that. Its weird though, it was working fine for a while.
Sheesh, thanks!
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In what file is the display for a computer held?
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What exact information are you looking for? As far as I know, the only way to retrieve various display information is via the Win32 API.
For example, DeviceCaps is used to determine screen resolution, number of supported colors and so on where as EnumDisplaySettings is used to enumerate all display modes. Therefore, it really depends on exactly what you need.
Cheers,
Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group
"So look up ahead at times to come, despair is not for us. We have a world and more to see, while this remains behind." - James N. Rowe
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 how to crop an image in an application based on dialog? with thanks!(Cropping images)There is an image,which is 696*344, I want to put a box(200*150) on it, then i move the box to the right position with the mouse , at last,i can get a new image which is 200*150. Now I can't complete this , for help,With thanks.
thanks
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The obvious thing to do is to create a new bitmap and use BitBlt to copy just the bit you need. The box part is easy, just draw the box at the mouse position, and keep track of the position in OnMouseMove.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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I have a dialog box where I want to do some initialization.
With visual studio 6.0, the wizard allowed me to choose OnInitDialog.
This would put in all the proper code so my class would get the base class OnInitDialog and inside the function there was a call to CDialog::OnInitDialog.
What is the “proper” way to do this in vs7.0?
Am I supposed to manually look at the parameter list of the base function, duplicate the parameters and also duplicate the return type?
Obviously the wizard was much more convenient, but if I have to manually do it in vs7.0, then at least I want to know this is my fate.
Thanks,
Ilan
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1) Open the Properties pane for the dialog.
2) Click the Overrides button. (2 buttons right of the lightning bolt) OnInitDialog should be in the list
 Pssst. You see that little light on your monitor? That's actually a government installed spy camera. Smile and wave to big brother!
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Hi,
I'm working with Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 on Win98 and WinXP.
I have a problem with MFC CMonthCalCtrl. When I try get the current system tyme with GetCurSel this returns other date.
For example:
The CMonthCalCtrl is 2005 May 30 as current selected. But GetCurSel returns 2006 Jun 28. Why?
This problem is similar in both operative sistems.
some suggestion to solving this?
Ivan Cachicatari Blog[^]
www.latindevelopers.com
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I´m trying to change the default behavior of the tree control regarding images (selected/nonselected) to state expanded/collapsed. I´ve created a CImageList and called CTreeCtrl.SetImageList with TVSIL_STATE instead of TVSIL_NORMAL. That was all I could find in VC++/MFC documentation, what else should I do ?
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 It's been at least six (6) months since I last programed anything. I wanted to run background processes im application.Just wondering how I woould go about doing this.
Here is what I am trying to do.
I run my application and all you see is a progress bar.
Meanwhile, in the background my function run(), opens up an exisiting file on the computer somewhere and runs it. Also, it's supposed to run other applications well. Just trying to get back in the C++ lingo.
Thanks to all that might be able to help.
Mystic Valour
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You Must Create a Thread in Your Application And Do
BackGround Proccessing there. Worker Threads are suitable
for your Situation
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hy all!!!
I am completely new at MFC. How can i display an image (jpg or bmp) in a dialog in MFC? And then i have to change the image with another one (it's the same size) during runtime.
Thnx.
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in VC++.Net , CImage Class is so easy to use;
Try it!
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I’ve mad an application (or apart of an app) in C++ that I’d like to use in .NET C# Windows Application.
The thing I like to accomplish is to build some kind of component of my existing C++ app and expose some functions that I later can call from the C# app.
The application I like to encapsulate can be seen ass a window (MFC CWnd in ny case).
My fist question is if this is possible? If, then my second Q is How..?
I’ve made som COM and ActiveX programming so I’m not totally new in this topic, but I really don’t where to start.
I’m not expecting a total solution of my problem but Ideas where to start would be great.
Articles about this would be great. (Have not found any of them myself…)
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APe
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