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Hello,

I want the cells in my CExtGridWnd to have widths so that they exactly fit in the grid’s area. I tried to use GetClientRect to find out the area width but this does not give the correct size. It seems that I alway have to distract 64 from this size whether the scrollbars are show or not.

What is the proper way to retrieve the grid area?

Thanks,

Bart.

The Prof-UIS grids controls support the proportional resizing feature for both columns and rows. We will explain you how to use this feature for columns of the CExtGridWnd control. First of all, you should disable horizontal scrolling in your grid control. This means you should use the __ESIS_STH_NONE style in invocation of the SiwModifyStyle() method - not an any other __ESIS_STH_*** style. Second, you should apply the __EGBS_BSE_EX_PROPORTIONAL_COLUMN_WIDTHS style with invocation of the method. The proportional column widths are stored in the top header cells. You should invoke the CExtGridCell::ExtentPercentSet() method of header cells at top to specify how the cells should be resized proportionally. The columns still support minimal/current/maximal widths in pixels. These widths can be set using the CExtGridCell::ExtentSet() method. So, you can set some initial widths in pixels. If all the minimal/current/maximal widths are equal, then column is not resized proportionally and it cannot be resized by user.

Thanks for your response. This already works very nice but I’d like it to be a little bit nicer ;)

I would like to resize colums as the data in the grid changes. All columns have to be as wide so the contents fit. The last column must stretch the free space.

I made an "UpdateColumnWidths" method which is called as soon as the data in the grid is updated. I messed around a bit with "BestFitColumn" but I did not manage to get it right.

So, what can I do to get this done?

Also, I noticed that "BestFitColumn" sometimes goes wrong when all rows in a column contains one character. 

Hello Prof-UIS,

i created a grid (instance of CExtPPVW<CExtGridWnd>) with a vertical scrollbar by adding a CExtScrollBar member to the grid class and overriding the GetScrollBarCtrl(int nBar) method. Everything works fine so far. If the rows need more space than visible then the scrollbar appears. But now i would like to have the scrollbar always visible, even if there are less rows visible than required. In that case the scrollbar should be disabled. How can this be achieved?

Thanks in advance & regards,

Chris

Thank you again for the good support!

Regards,

Chris

Hello Prof-UIS,

is there a way to limit the minimum width and height of a CExtControlBar instance? I would like to prevent the user resizing some of my control bars to dimensions smaller than their content.

Regards,

Chris

Thank you, that was exactly what i needed.

Regards,

Chris

Hi,

I have a dialog, inherited from CExtResizableDialog, and have some controls on that dialog.

I have some dockable bar, created with CExtControlBar. Now these dockable bar docked on that dialog. Whenever this docked the controls, which are on a CExtResizableDialog are comes up. I mean those controls are highlighted when a Dockable bar docks.

What to do, so those controls are not comes up?

You can send us e-mail to the support mail box at this web site.

You wrote: "Now these dockable bar docked on that dialog"
We suppose you mean you created a resizable dialog as a child of a control bar because control bars cannot be created inside dialogs.

You wrote: "I mean those controls are highlighted when a Dockable bar docks"
The control bar does not highlight a dialog nor dialog controls. Could you provide us with a screenshot demonstrating how your dialog’s controls become highlighted?

Hello Prof-UIS,

the only method i found to set the text alignment of a field in a CExtStatusControlBar object is the SetPaneDrawTextFlags() method. But unfortunately it only supports the flags DT_LEFT, DT_RIGHT and DT_CENTER. What about vertical alignment? If i increase the height of the status bar the text gets aligned at the top. Espacially when using CExtZoomScrollBar we have to increase the height to avoid cutting of edges of that control. How can the vertical text alignment be added?

Regards,

Chris

Hello Prof-UIS,

thank you for your help. I didn’t use the flag DT_SINGLELINE. Now it works.

Regards,

Chris

Hello,

I want to create a table where the next row is selected when the down-arrow key is pressed during editing a cell. So I overrode the OnInplaceControlPreTranslateMessage method on my own cell derived from. CExtGridCellString.

Now when I hit the down-arrow editing is stoped but the editing cell stays selected.

What goes wrong?

bool CQuickLeaveCellString::OnInplaceControlPreTranslateMessage(

  MSG * pMsg,

  HWND hWndInplaceControl,

  CExtGridWnd & wndGrid,

  LONG nVisibleColNo,

  LONG nVisibleRowNo,

  LONG nColNo,

  LONG nRowNo,

  INT nColType,

  INT nRowType,

  const RECT & rcCellExtra,

  const RECT & rcCell,

  const RECT & rcInplaceControl)

{

  CExtGridInplaceEdit * pEdit = static_cast <CExtGridInplaceEdit*> (CWnd::FromHandle(hWndInplaceControl));

  ASSERT(pEdit != NULL);

  ASSERT_VALID(pEdit);

  if (pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN)

  {

    if (pMsg->wParam == VK_DOWN)

    {

        pEdit->DoEndEdit(true, VK_RETURN);

        CRect rect;

        wndGrid.GridCellRectsGet(nColNo, nRowNo + 1, nColType, nRowType, rect);

        wndGrid.SelectionSet(rect, true, true, true);

        return true;

    }

  }

  return __super::OnInplaceControlPreTranslateMessage(

    pMsg,

    hWndInplaceControl,

    wndGrid,

    nVisibleColNo,

    nVisibleRowNo,

    nColNo,

    nRowNo,

    nColType,

    nRowType,

    rcCellExtra,

    rcCell,

    rcInplaceControl);

}

You don’t need to code this feature. Please apply the __EGWS_BSE_WALK_VERT style or the __EGWS_BSE_WALK_VERT|__EGWS_BSE_WALK_VERT_NO_EDIT style set using the BseModifyStyle() method.

I changed my VC6 Src --> VC9 sp1 Src

In my .h:

class TestView : public CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView > > >, public InterfaceXXXX
{ 
	TestView( UINT nResourceID = 0 );
...
}

TestView::TestView ()
: CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView >  > >( nResourceID, (CWnd *)NULL ), InterfaceXXXX( (CObject *)this )
{
}

1>d:\Prof-UIS\283\Include\ExtTempl.h(1349) : error C2664: ’CExtAFV<CExtAFVBase>::CExtAFV(__EXT_MFC_SAFE_LPCTSTR,CWnd *)’ : 매개 변수 1을(를) ’UINT’에서 ’__EXT_MFC_SAFE_LPCTSTR’(으)로 변환할 수 없습니다.

1>        with

1>        [

1>            CExtAFVBase=CFormView

1>        ]

1>        정수 계열 형식에서 포인터 형식으로 변환하려면 reinterpret_cast, C 스타일 캐스트 또는 함수 스타일 캐스트가 필요합니다.

1>        d:\Prof-UIS\283\Include\ExtTempl.h(1336) : 클래스 템플릿 멤버 함수 ’CExtWA<CExtWABase>::CExtWA(UINT,UINT)’을(를) 컴파일하고 있습니다.

1>        with

1>        [

1>            CExtWABase=CExtAFV<CFormView>

1>        ]

1>        d:\Prof-UIS\283\Include\ExtTempl.h(238) : 컴파일 중인 클래스 템플릿 인스턴스화 ’CExtWA<CExtWABase>’에 대한 참조를 확인하십시오.

1>        with

1>        [

1>            CExtWABase=CExtAFV<CFormView>

1>        ]

1>        d:\test\TestView.h(13) : 컴파일 중인 클래스 템플릿 인스턴스화 ’CExtWS<CExtWSBase>’에 대한 참조를 확인하십시오.

1>        with

1>        [

1>            CExtWSBase=CExtWA<CExtAFV<CFormView>>

1>        ]

I am using 2.83 on VS2008 SP1

plz kill error.....

The CChildView class in the HelpNotes sample application is also derived from the CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView > > > template based class and it’s compiled OK by any Visual C++ version and for any platform:

class CChildView : public CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView > > >
{
      . . .
};

CChildView::CChildView()
      : CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView > > > ( CChildView::IDD, (CWnd*) NULL )
{
}

In my .h:

class TestView : public CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView > > >, public InterfaceXXXX
{ 
TestView( UINT nResourceID = 0 );
...
}

In my .cpp

TestView::TestView ( UINT nResourceID /* = 0 */ )
: CExtWS < CExtWA < CExtAFV < CFormView >  > >( nResourceID, (CWnd *)NULL ), InterfaceXXXX( (CObject *)this )
{
}

TestView::TestView( UINT nResourceID /* = 0 */ ) <-- Missing ˆˆ;; (In my.cpp)

1. No abstract virtual methods , InterfaceXXXX is normal class

2. Visual Studio 2008 9.0.30729.1 SP

3. No Freeware version. my company buy prof-uis 2.83

Hi,

How can I set an Image(Bitmap Image) as the background of a dialog?

I tried with Picture Control, but with this other controls on dialog goes behind the Image.  I also write a function to set background image, but it works only with CDialog. As i inherit my dialog class from CExtResizableDlg, it does not working.

So, is there any other method to set background image when dialog class is inherit from CExtResizableDig?

How do you paint your bitmap image? If you are using the CExtBitmap class, please switch to the CExtBitmapCache class. Do not load bitmap from resources each time when it should be painted. Add some CExtBitmapCache property into your dialog class and load your bitmap only once when the dialog is initialized.

Hi,

No i am not loading bitmap image from resource each time, i am loading it only for once.

Also, as you told i switched to CExtBitMapCache, but there is no difference. I am still facing the problem.

For painting image i am using ::Draw() function.

Please try to compare your application with the TabbedBars sample. This sample application also draws bitmap based backgrounds inside resizable bars.

The image painting is a quite fast operation. Did you try to create a version of your dockable dialog without background image painting? Is it really faster?

Hi,

Yes, i tried it without background image and it is quite faster. But when i implement it for background image, the docking of dialog become too slow because of that background image painting.

The feature you are looking for is demonstrated in the TabbedBars sample. The view window is a One Note tab page container with 3 colored tabs. The last tab page is the dialog which allows you to configure the inherited background painting in scope of main frame window and one note tab page container window. We discussed this in these threads:
http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/faq/miscellaneous.aspx#how-to-paint-a-custom-background-consistent-between-the-windows-in-my-application
http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/general-forum/custom-background-colour-for-cextresizabledialog-54409.aspx
http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/general-forum/how-to-change-background-color-of-a-modeless-dialog-box-64189.aspx
http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/general-forum/handling-wm_paint-message-for-cextresizabledialog-61578.aspx

Hi,

I’m trying to create a virtual grid with the virtual scrolling mode enable where:

- a cell background color will flash when its contents displayed a specific string value;

OR/AND

- the cell string value is replaced with a bitmap

The data that drive these is dynamic.

I looked at the AdoRecorsetView project. But it does not give examples when the virtual scrolling mode is enable for the following:

- edition of cells that are  visible on the virtual grid

- refresh specific cells when its data from the data provider changed

- programmatically navigate through the visible cell to change its contents (ie getRow, get Column in virtual scrolling mode)

Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi,

I am new to profiUIs285freeware;

1) I have been trying to handle any changes made in edit control (m_wndDockedCtrlEdit) of the SDIDOCVIEW sample. In MFC for an edit box which is placed on a form view I would simply handle the EN_CHANGE message by using the class wizard to generate the handler function, but I couldn’t do the same thing here.

2) Besides, where can I find documentation on the methods of the e.g. CExtEdit class. To change its conent I used the "SetWindowText" function which was called from CMainframe::OnCreate. But what about the other methods.

Pls help me on the issues.

Regards,

We modified the SDIDOCVIEW sample for you. The CMyEdit class is what you need. Here is the source code:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/tmp/SDIDOCVIEW-modified-for-Ali-Reza.zip

The CExtEdit control is an extended version of the CEdit control from MFC. The CExtEdit control supports a themed context menu and a themed window border displayed on mouse hover. The CExtEdit control does not have any other special features. So, its documentation is short. If the edit control is created inside a CExtControlBar control bar window, then you should use message reflection for handling the EN_CHANGE notification in your CExtEdit-derived class. You should insert an entry into the message map of your CExtEdit-derived class:

 ON_CONTROL_REFLECT( EN_CHANGE, OnChange )

void CYourEditClassNameHere::OnChange()
{
      . . .
}

Hi all.

I have a CExtContolbar that is floating in the application. Now if I click on the "X" button to close/hide the control bar, the application will not respond any more, the control bar also keep floating, not hidden. Then if click on the application item in the task bar with the right mousebutton, the application will respond again and the control bar will dissappear.

The other similar case is to start the WinVNC.exe on the test machine, then start the application on the test machine and open the control bar, then connect via a remote appnection(vncviewer) to this test machine and try to close the control bar by clicking on the "X" button, then the application will always freeze, after changing to another running task and back to our application, the controlbar is not closed but the application is responding again.

Does anyone encounter these two problems? What is the reason? How to solve this problem? Waiting for your advise.

(Here the application is the software we develop)

Thanks.

Best regards

We are still unable to reproduce this issue with VNC, but we reproduced it with HardCopy. We have a preliminary fix for this issue. It works, but we need some additional time for testing it. This fix is very simple. Please open the ...\Prof-UIS\Src\ExtMiniDockFrameWnd.cpp file and replace all SendMessage( WM_NCPAINT ); lines of code with PostMessage( WM_NCPAINT );.

This problem also coocur with Prof-UIS samples which include controlbar. And we found out the reason is that, when we use VNC to connect a test computer, then if we click on the title of floating controlbar in the test computer, the application VNC will send the endless message which will be received by Prof-UIS, Only when we switch to other application or close the VNC, then the profuis will received the message LBUTTONDOWN and handle it. It seems that VNC has a hook which will get the mouse message and do not send the message out, that is why the prof-uis could not received the LBUTTONDOWN message and it reveived the endless message which is sent by VNC.

And this problem may also happen without VNC, if we start some application which has hook, then the floating CExtControlBar may also not be moved. Such as the software HardCopy.exe, if we open this software , then the floating CExtControlBar could not be moved.

Environment:

Prof-uis version:  270

Application        :   32 bit

System              : Windows XP

Visual Studio   : 2003

Hi.

I have five CExtContolbar that can be dock/undock/drag&drop in the application.

Sometimes CExtControlbar moving is not smooth or not moveing when i drag the Controlbar.

CPU occupied rate is very low.

wait your advice. thanks.

Hello,

Which method should I override if I want a notification when the selection of a CExtGridCellComboBox has changed? There must be something like On...Complete, right?

Thank you,

Bart.

The code was correct after all, even using DECLARE_DYNCREATE.

The problem was that Visual Studio decided not to break on the breakpoint :(

Here is my code. I put a breakpoint in OnPopupListBoxSelEndOK but it is never hit.

class CPackageCell : public CExtGridCellComboBox

{

  public:

    CPackageCell(CExtGridDataProvider* pDataProvider = NULL)

      : CExtGridCellComboBox(pDataProvider)

    {}

    DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CPackageCell)

   IMPLEMENT_ExtGridCell_Clone(CPackageCell, CExtGridCellComboBox);

    virtual bool OnPopupListBoxSelEndOK(CExtPopupInplaceListBox & wndListBox, CExtGridCell::TrackCellStateInfo_t & _tcsi)

    {

      return

__super::OnPopupListBoxSelEndOK(wndListBox, _tcsi);

   }

};

Did you try to rebuild your project?

> Did you try to rebuild your project?

No, but it works OK now.

Please use DECLARE_SERIAL instead of DECLARE_DYNCREATE.

hi.every one :

    I have  a program  using profuis.dll . today ,i

     change profuis.dll  from version 2.7.*  to 2.8.4 ,the UI(just  a dialog with some controls ) speed slows down too much.

   Please give me some advice!

  thanks !

Hi,

Is it possible to create Round(Circular) shape button? I would like to create acircular shape button just like as in Media player’s "Play" button

Hi,

I am using the following code for inserting ’Button’ cell on Grid Control.

**************************************************************************

    CExtGridCellButton * pCellButton =

        STATIC_DOWNCAST(

            CExtGridCellButton,

            m_wndGrid.GridCellGet( nColNo, 0L )

            );

    pCellButton->TextSet( _T("Details") );

    pCellButton->ModifyStyle( __EGCS_TA_HORZ_CENTER );

    pCellButton->IconIndexSet(0 );

**************************************************************************

How can I get the event on button click?

Hello Prof-UIS,

i have problems creating a CExtShellComboBox and a CExtNCSB<CExtShellListCtrl> instance in my CExtWA<CExtControlBar> derived control bar. The following three problems occured:

1. Clicking inside the shell combobox leads to an assertion at extcombobox.cpp (line 234).


2. The shell combobox control ignores the rectangle specified in the create method.


3. Invoking the create method for the CExtNCSB<CExtShellListCtrl> instance leads to an assertion at wincore.cpp (line 329)

I’m stuck with this problems because the Prof-UIS Controls sample doesn’t seem to have them and there doesn’t seem to be a generall difference in how the sample creates the controls except for creating them in a resizable dialog.

Here is the source:

// Header file:

class CFileBrowser : public CExtWA<CExtControlBar>

{

    DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CFileBrowser)



public:

    CExtShellComboBox            m_wndShellCombo;

    CExtNCSB<CExtShellListCtrl>    m_wndShellList;



public:

    CFileBrowser();

    virtual ~CFileBrowser();

    virtual void OnUpdateCmdUI(CFrameWnd* pTarget, BOOL bDisableIfNoHndler);



protected:

    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

public:

    afx_msg int OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct);

};

// Source file:

IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CFileBrowser, CExtWA<CExtControlBar>)



CFileBrowser::CFileBrowser()

{

}



CFileBrowser::~CFileBrowser()

{

}



BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CFileBrowser, CExtWA<CExtControlBar>)

    ON_WM_CREATE()

 END_MESSAGE_MAP()



void CFileBrowser::OnUpdateCmdUI(CFrameWnd* /*pTarget*/, BOOL /*bDisableIfNoHndler*/)

{

}



int CFileBrowser::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)

{

    if( CExtWA<CExtControlBar>::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1 )

        return -1;



    m_wndShellCombo.Create(WS_VISIBLE|CBS_DROPDOWNLIST |

        CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED | CBS_HASSTRINGS |

        CBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP, CRect(10,10,100,100), this, IDC_SHELL_COMBO);

    m_wndShellCombo.FocusPath(_T("C:\\"));



    m_wndShellList.Create(LVS_REPORT | LVS_SHOWSELALWAYS | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP, CRect(10, 110, 100, 200), this, IDC_SHELL_LIST);

    m_wndShellList.SetExtendedStyle( LVS_EX_UNDERLINEHOT|LVS_EX_UNDERLINECOLD );

    m_wndShellList.ModifyStyle( 0, LVS_EDITLABELS );



    return 0;

}

Regards,

Chris

Hello Prof-UIS,

thanks for the help. Now that i have created a shell combo and a shell list control i would like to configure them to suit my needs but i do not know how. This is what i would like to achieve:

Shell combo:

The tree inside the combo should show lines and enable expansion and colapsing of nodes

Shell list:

I would like to choose which columns to show (e.g. only the filenames)

 How can this be achieved?

Thank you & regards,

Chris

You can use the source code of the CExtShellDialogFile class as the sample. This dialog has 4 shell controls:

 CExtNCSB < CExtShellListCtrl > m_wndShellList;
      CExtNCSB < CExtShellTreeCtrl > m_wndShellTree;
      CExtNCSB < CExtShellComboBox > m_comboLookIn;
      CExtShellExtensionsComboBox m_comboFileTypes;

 ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE( CExtShellListCtrl::g_nMsgShellLocationChanged, OnShellListLocationChanged )
      ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE( CExtShellComboBox::g_nMsgShellLocationChanged, OnShellComboLocationChanged )
      ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE( CExtTreeCtrl::g_nMsgTreeItemDelayedFocus, OnShellTreeDelayedItemFocus )
      ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE( CExtShellBase::g_nMsgShellItemExecute, OnShellItemExecute )

 m_wndShellTree.RefreshShellRoot();

 m_wndShellTree.FocusItem( m_wndShellTree.GetChildItem( TVI_ROOT ), true, false, true );

 HTREEITEM htiSelect = m_wndShellTree.GetFocusedItem();
      if( htiSelect != NULL )
      {
            CExtTreeCtrl::TREEITEMINFO_t & _TII = m_wndShellTree.TreeItemInfoGet( htiSelect );
            CExtShellItemData * pData = (CExtShellItemData*)_TII.m_lParam;
            ASSERT( pData != NULL );
            LPITEMIDLIST pidlSelect = (LPITEMIDLIST)pData->m_pidlAbsolute.GetPtr();
            ASSERT( pidlSelect != NULL );
            m_wndShellList.FocusPIDL( pidlSelect );
      }

 m_comboLookIn.DelayFocusPIDL( pidlSelect );

Hello Prof-UIS,

thank you for your help. Synchronizing data between those controls works now, but i still have the following two problems:

1. The shell list control is in report mode (LVS_REPORT) and displays the columns Name, Size, Type and so on. But i want to display only the Name column. I tried removing unneeded columns with DeleteColumn() but that causes an assertion. The same happens if i call GetHeaderCtrl().DeleteItem().

2. If i click into the shell combo box it shows me a tree without lines and without + and - symbols for expanding and collapsing the items. I would like to have a normal tree control in the shell combo box like the one used in CExtShellTreeCtrl so that the user can walk through the whole filesystem inside the shell combo box. That tree should of course show only folders. If he than selects a folder he should see its contents in the shell list control. So actually i just need to turn the tree inside the combo box to one that is expandable and collapsable with the + and - symbols. How can this be achieved?

Regards,

Chris

BTW: Answering support querries even on weekends shure deserves commendation! Great job!

The CExtShellListCtrl class has the following locally defined enumeration:

 enum e_shell_list_column_type_t
      {
            __ESLCT_NAME = -1,
            __ESLCT_SIZE = -2,
            __ESLCT_TYPE = -3,
            __ESLCT_DATE_MODIFIED = -4,
            __ESLCT_DATE_CREATED = -5,
            __ESLCT_DATE_ACCESSED = -6,
            __ESLCT_ATTRIBUTES = -7,
            __ESLCT_CUSTOM_TYPE = 0,
      };

 CArray < INT, INT > m_arrColumnTypes;

 m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_NAME) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_SIZE) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_TYPE) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_DATE_MODIFIED) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_DATE_CREATED) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_DATE_ACCESSED) );
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_ATTRIBUTES) );

 m_arrColumnTypes.RemoveAll();
      m_arrColumnTypes.Add( INT(__ESLCT_NAME) );

Hello Prof-UIS,

thank you for the detailed help. Now i got the shell list control exactly like i need it.

Are there any chances the shell combo box will be able to contain a full tree control like mentioned before? If yes, when could that feature be expected to be available? Would it then be possible to get it without waiting for the next official update of Prof-UIS?

Thanks & regards,

Chris

Hello,

I want to modify the skin for a software we are building with prof-uis. I understand the general process of modifying the aqua.xml file and the image bank that comes with it to get what we want.

Im a graphic designer, so I might not get the technical terms right... try to understand me :)

My first question would be: Are all the SkinItem that I can play with listed in the aqua.xml?

For example: I want to modify the look of the zone where we drop column header for grouping. I have found a SkinItem named "ReportGroupAreaItem", so I tried to add a SkinItem named "ReportGroupArea". It seemed logical to me, but it did not "picked up". So my guess is either I got the SkinItem name wrong or this zone did not get a SkinItem name at all.

My second question is: I wouldn’t want to flood this forum with every SkinItem I am looking for... So would there be a way for me to identify the "pieces" of the interface and what SkinItem name it has? A sort of Inspect CSS feature like in Firebug?

I have read on other thread that you do not/cannot have a skin editor, but this would help a lot so we do not have to work in the dark and might be easier to make than a skin editor?

Finally, Could you add the Grid in the skinable sample? It would greatly help visualize a more complete results of the effect of a skin.

Thank you!

We made the skinning subsystem improvements in the latest Prof-UIS 2.87 pre-release version. The serial version history numbers of the latest Prof-UIS versions are: 2.84, 2.85, 2.87. All these versions are very friendly to each other. You can compile your apps with any of them and it will be 100% compatible with newer and older versions. We can provide you with the 2.87 download if you drop us an e-mail to the support mail box at this web site.

Out of curiosity, are you able to tell me when the official release is planned to be released? If it is anytime soon, I think we would prefer to use an official release. Thank you

We hope to release Prof-UIS 2.87 this month.

We are sorry for the delay with this answer. We implemented a skinned version of the group area part of the report grid control. Here is the ZIP file with the updated skins and compiled versions of the ReportGrid sample application which load the Black Diamond and Aqua skins initially:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/tmp/TestThemedReportGridGroupArea.zip

The new /Background/ReportGroupArea/Background XML item defines background image for the group area. It’s referred to the ...\BlackDiamond\Background\ReportGroupAreaBackground.png and ...\Aqua\Background\ReportGroupAreaBackground.png images in skin files. The /Grid/ReportEmptyMessageColor XML item defines text color of the message displayed in the group area when there are no columns dropped into it. We made the group area using colors which are somewhere between the default looking background and color of sea surface.

The ReportGrid sample project can be converted into skinnable by your developers. They just need to uncomment two groups of lines. One is in the StdAfx.h file:

//#if (!defined __PROF_SKIN_H)
//    #include <../ProfSkin/ProfSkin.h>
//#endif // (!defined __PROF_SKIN_H)

//                             CExtPaintManagerSkin * pPM = new CExtPaintManagerSkin;
//                            bool bLoaded = true;
//                            if( ! pPM->m_Skin.Load( _T("..\\..\\Skins\\XML\\Aqua.XML") ) )
//    //                      if( ! pPM->m_Skin.Load( _T("..\\..\\Skins\\XML\\BlackDiamond.xml") ) )
//                            {
//                                  bLoaded = false;
//                                  ::AfxMessageBox( _T("Failed to load initial skin.") );
//                                  delete pPM;
//                            }
//                            if( bLoaded )
//                                  g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager( pPM );

Is the version2.84 new enough to make the Group Area of the Report Grid skinnable? Because I have been told that we do not want to switch the version we are using to avoid regression issues with our softwares.

Thank you

Thank you for the quick answer. For now I would only need the code to be able to add the XML node to the Group Area of the Report Grid so I can modify its text style and its background.

Would it be possible to add skinning capabilities to the HelpNotes feature, ie to skin the box in which the RTF appears in? If yes, I would appreciate the code for that item too.

Thank you very much

The Prof-UIS skin is very similar to CSS in HTML. The XML file describes painting rules - not exactly defined look of each UI element. We used XML because it has tree like structure. Each UI element has its leaf node in XML. If this node does not contain enough information about how to paint an UI element then this information is searched in parent nodes. The CSS styles are using the same inheritance of one style from other. Most of UI components in Prof-UIS are skinned and have their nodes in XML skin. The ribbon bar, for instance, is not skinned yet. Some of UI elements does not have XML nodes yet and they painted using default skinned dialog window background. The group area of report grid control is such element. We can add the stand-alone skinning rule for it in the XML file and provide you company with the source code update.

We edited XML skins using Visual Studio .NET because it provides colorized XML editor with automatic text indent formatting and the Document Outline window displays tree structure of edited XML file. The Document Outline window helped us to identify what is where in the XML skin file. We can compile some of our grid samples and make them initially loading XML skin. This will let you to see how the grids are skinned. Please provide us with the full requirements list for this moment.

Hi,

There are some "AutoHide", "Close" and some other buttons on a window if it is created as a chield of CExtControlBar.

Now, as per my requirement i am not showing these buttons on a dockable window. But I want the effects of "AutoHide" button. Means when you click on "AutoHide" button the window is shown & when you click on it again the window is hide.

How to do that?

Thanks

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Hi,

How can i attach an an image in this post?

I would like to explain my problem through a bitmap image.

Hi,

How to disable dockable bar?

If the control bar is auto hidden, the auto hide tabs have one tab item for it. If you move mouse hovers this tab item, the auto-hidden bar appears on the screen. It’s not possible to disable this behavior because the user will not be able to guess why some tab items show auto hidden bars when some other tab items do not show bars.

Hi,

So is it possible to hde a perticular tab of dockable bar?

Can i hide/show the tabs?

Thanks

To hide a tab, you should hide the bar. I.e. you should put the bar into normal non-auto-hidden mode and then hide it.

You should not disable the CExtControlBar windows. They will work incorrectly. Please disable the window created as child of the CExtControlBar window. You can additionally override the following virtual method in your CExtControlBar-derived class:

 virtual void OnGetBarCaptionText(
            e_bar_caption_text_t eBCT,
            CExtSafeString & strCaptionText
            ) const;