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I have an existing MFC project which has some very old code in it. When I updated to visual studio 2008 I found some things didn’t work anymore. I need to upgrade becuase I want access to some of the stuff in the new MFC Library. I figure this would be a great time to replace some of the non-functioning code with Prof-UIS code as well.

I don’t have a lot of C++ or MFC experience so this may be a problem. I do have a lot of programming experince so I’m not a complete newby.

I wanted to replace a treelist with a tabedcombobox. To start I thought I would just try adding tabedpages. I’m finding this very difficult. The sample code is not well documented and I’m having trouble understanding the code and how I might integrate it into my app. I tried adding 2 files to my project. CExtTabPageContainerWnd.cpp / .h. I didn’t change any code and tried to compile.

This is the error I got which I can’t even see how it relates to the code.

C:\Program Files\FOSS Software Inc\Prof-UIS\Include\ExtPopupMenuWnd.h(112) : error C2504: ’CEvent’ : base class undefined

if you need a example how to deal with this 

i have a Example which allows you to change it within minutes if you have

-> Tab sheets are Dialogbased

-> All your calls  inside the tabs are with a pointer..

let me know if you need id..

Cheers

Hello,

That helps a bit. i’m sure I have everything installed ok. The install took a couple of hours building libraries.

I want to replace the Tabed Pages part of my code since it actually stopped working when I ported from VS2005 to VS2008. Do I need to create the MainFrame Window using the Prof-UIS libs or can I add in the Tabed Pages part to my existing code? I am using SDI.

Also, is there any documentation that would better explain the Tabed Pages and how to implement it?

Thanks for you help...

You should create a CExtTabPageContanerWnd window (or any other derived from it) instead of the main SDI view window. The CExtTabPageContanerWnd window should be created using the AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST standard MFC dialog control identifier. Then create your page windows as children of the CExtTabPageContanerWnd and register them as tab pages using the CExtTabPageContanerWnd::PageInsert() method. For instance, the TabbedBars application use the CExtTabPageContainerOneNoteWnd window as a child view window and creates 3 dialog pages inside it.

Good Day,

In my property grid, when using a CExtGridCellCheckBox or a CExtGridCellButton-derived object the following occurs.

If i select the property value name of the checkbox (or button) i.e. the cell that contains the value name, and then press a character in the keyboard the program crashes!

How can i avoid that?

PS. Other types of cells, including Bool,Num,Combobox. do not cause the program to crash.

Thanx in advance,

Stakon

I implemented the code above. It seem exactly the sam as the original code in 2.85. My applications still crashes when I type any key and a checkbox cell is selected.

Could request the source code update by email?

We found the same issue related to the CExtGridCellCheckBox and CExtGridCellButton classes. Please drop us an e-mail to the support mail box at this web site so we will provide you with the source code update.

Please find the CExtGridCellBool::OnParseText() method in the .../Prof-UIS/Src/ExtGridWnd.cpp file and update the source code for this method from our previous answer in this forum thread. This will fix the reported issue with the CExtGridCellBool class. We were unable to reproduce the same problem with the CExtGridCellCheckBox and CExtGridCellButton classes using the PropertyGrid sample. So, we need more details about the last two classes.

Thank you for reporting this bug. Here is the fix:

HRESULT CExtGridCellBool::OnParseText( __EXT_MFC_SAFE_LPCTSTR sText ) const
{
      ASSERT_VALID( this );
      ASSERT( sText != NULL );
      if( sText == NULL )
            return E_INVALIDARG;
      if(         m_sLabelTrue.CompareNoCase( sText ) == 0
            ||    m_sLabelFalse.CompareNoCase( sText ) == 0
            )
            return S_OK;
      if(         m_sLabelTrue.GetLength() > 0
            &&    m_sLabelFalse.GetLength() > 0
            &&    _tcslen( sText ) > 0
            )
      {
            TCHAR chrTrue  = (TCHAR)_totlower( m_sLabelTrue[ 0 ] );
            TCHAR chrFalse = (TCHAR)_totlower( m_sLabelFalse[ 0 ] );
            TCHAR chrCheck = (TCHAR)_totlower( sText[ 0 ] );
            if( chrTrue != chrFalse )
            {
                  if( chrCheck == chrTrue )
                        return S_OK;
                  if( chrCheck == chrFalse )
                        return S_OK;
                  if(         chrTrue != _T(’0’)
                        &&    chrFalse !=  _T(’0’)
                        &&    chrTrue != _T(’1’)
                        &&    chrFalse !=  _T(’1’)
                        &&    ( chrCheck !=  _T(’0’) || chrCheck !=  _T(’1’) )
                        )
                        return S_OK;
            }
      }
      return E_FAIL;
}

Good Day,

I am using many CExtGridCellComboBox objects in my PropertyGrid.

I wanted to find a way to prevent the user to enter his own text when the "text part" of the combobox is selected.

By using the SetEnumMode() method i thought this was accomplished, but this is half the truth.

The user cannot enter a new string, but if he presses a key which is the first letter of a string in the combobox, then that string is selected and an Apply() is invoked . This behavior is unwanted.

To make things worse, in the above scenario if there are more than one strings starting with the pressed key then one of them is selected, probably not the one intended to be used.

So what i am asking for is a way to prevent the user from using keys within the "text field" of the combobox.

Thanx in advance,

Stakon.

HI, supporters

I made a dialog inherited CExtResizableDialog.

I initialize controls status.(enable/ diable) but  when dialog are floating, setting control’s status are changed and mixed.

To solve the problem, I initialize controls again in Onpaint() function. But not solved.

Give a solution, please. 

Hallo,

I`m trying to use the CExtGridWnd Class to show a Grid with 2 Columns, 1 Header- and 1 Datarow. So I put a Custom Control with the Grid Class Code On my Form. My Code:

Header:

CExtGridWnd m_puisgrid_couriers;

DataExchange:

void CSelectCourier::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)
{
 CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX);
 DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_PUISGRID_COURIERS, m_puisgrid_couriers);
}

Initialisation:

void CSelectCourier::InitControls() {
 //*** Steuerelemente initialisieren ***
 //* Courier Grid *
 //Grid
 m_puisgrid_couriers.OuterRowCountTopSet( 1L, false );
 //Data Provider
 CExtGridDataProvider & m_puisgrid_data = m_puisgrid_couriers.OnGridQueryDataProvider();
 m_puisgrid_data.RowInsert(0,2);
 m_puisgrid_data.ColumnInsert(0,2);
 
 CExtGridCellHeader* celltop1 = (CExtGridCellHeader*)m_puisgrid_data.CellGet(
  0,
  0,
  RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtGridCellHeader)
 );
 CExtGridCellHeader* celltop2 = (CExtGridCellHeader*)m_puisgrid_data.CellGet(
  1,
  0,
  RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtGridCellHeader)
 );
 CExtGridCellRadioButton* cell1 = (CExtGridCellRadioButton*)m_puisgrid_data.CellGet(
  0,
  1,
  RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtGridCellRadioButton)
 );
 CExtGridCellString* cell2 = (CExtGridCellString*)m_puisgrid_data.CellGet(
  1,
  1,
  RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtGridCellString)
 );
 celltop1->TextSet("Header1");
 celltop2->TextSet("Header2");
 cell1->SetCheck(1);
 cell2->TextSet("12345");
}

But the result is:

What am I do wrong?

Here is the modified version of your project:

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

Here is what we changed:

1) We recoded the CProfUisGridDemoProjectDlg::InitControls() method. The direct access to the data provider inside the grid window is needed only for tricky tasks. We used grid control’s methods only.

2) We the CExtNCW < CExtResizableDialog > the base class of the CProfUisGridDemoProjectDlg and CAboutDlg classes. This makes the dialogs themed by Prof-UIS. Then we added the SetAutoSubclassChildControls(); line of code into the CProfUisGridDemoProjectDlg::CProfUisGridDemoProjectDlg constructor. All the un-subclassed dialog controls are now automatically themed by Prof-UIS. That is why the OK and Cancel buttons become themed.

3) We changed the CExtGridWnd m_puisgrid; property of the CProfUisGridDemoProjectDlg class to CExtNSB < CExtGridWnd > m_puisgrid;. So, the grid is now using themed Prof-UIS scroll bars.

4) We added the following lines into the res/ProfUisGridDemoProject.rc2 file:

#if ( !(defined _AFXDLL && !defined __STATPROFUIS_WITH_DLLMFC__) )
      #include <Resources/Resource.rc>
#endif

Thank you! Works perfect...

I created a simple project with the problem.

Download Demo Project

Everything is OK. We assume the class name specified in the user control properties is ProfUIS-ScrollItemWindow. Please invoke the following lines of code finally at the end of grid initialization:

 m_puisgrid_couriers.OnSwUpdateScrollBars();
      m_puisgrid_couriers.OnSwDoRedraw();

I invoked the lines, but the result is the same. Maybe, the call of  InitControls() is of interest:

BOOL CSelectCourier::OnInitDialog() 
{
    CDialog::OnInitDialog();
   
    //Initialisierungen
    InitControls();

    return TRUE;   // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
				  // EXCEPTION: OCX Property Pages should return FALSE
}

We believe the problem has to do with something not yet discussed in this forum thread. Could you create a small test project reproducing the problem and send it to the support mail box at this web site?

Hello.

i’m developing the application using the prof-uis version 2.82

I need to some works while calling the system command such as MAXIMIZE, MINIMIZE, CLOSE.

So, How to get the system command event such as MAXIMIZE?

thank you in advance.

The following pseudo code inserts a custom control in a non customizable toolbar.  Is it possible to accomplish the same thing with a customizable toolbar (i.e. using CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode)?  If so, can you please provide some details.

CSomeCustomControl control;
 
CExtBarButton button;
button.CtrlSet(&control);
 
CExtToolControlBar toolBar;
toolBar.InsertSpecButton(button);

The version of Prof-UIS 2.8.0

Thank you,

Keith

It’s possible to insert buttons with attached windows to the customizable toolbars, but these attached windows will not appear when the user drops such toolbar buttons onto a menu and the several instances of your custom controls attached to toolbar buttons will not be synchronized by Prof-UIS automatically. The customizable toolbars and menus are better without windows attached to toolbar buttons. So, it would be interesting to discuss details of your task.

The customize site creates the toolbar button objects in the CExtCustomizeSite::OnCreateToolbarButton() virtual method. You can override this method if you need to use your own CExtBarButton-class instances. Then the customize site inserts the toolbar buttons into the toolbar control using the CExtToolControlBar::InsertSpecButton() virtual method. You can override this virtual method, invoke parent class method, create your custom control inside toolbar and attach it into inserted toolbar button.

These custom control buttons are very specific to the toolbar in question.  It would be ideal if we could prevent these commands from even appearing in the Customize dialog.  This would prevent the the user from being able to drop them into menus, or other toolbars.

It would also be ideal if the toolbar in question would not be customizable by the user (i.e. not possible to drop buttons onto it).  However, this is less of a problem.

I was able to get something working with OnCreateToolbarButton() as you suggested, however there seems to be a small problem.  The toolbar in question can have many different button configurations.  Some configurations contain custom control buttons, while some do not.  When chaging configuration, the toolbar is first clear.  It seems that clearing the toolbar is not properly destroying the attached window.  Here is a snipet of code that is used to clear the toolbar before repopulating it with another set of buttons:

CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode *activeNode = site.GetToolbarCmdNode(this, false);
if (activeNode != NULL)
    activeNode ->RemoveAllNodes();

The net result is that all the buttons are removed from the toolbar, however the attached windows are still visible.

Is this the proper way to clear a customizable toolbar?

The custom controls can be attached to the toolbar buttons using the CExtToolControlBar::SetButtonCtrl() or CExtBarButton::CtrlSet() methods. Both methods have the bool bCtrlAutoDestroyed flag parameter which should be set to true if the attached control deletes itself in the overridden CWnd::PostNcDestroy() virtual method or class instance is not instantiated using the C++ new operator, and should be set to false otherwise. But there is one issue related to the un-destroyed windows and it should be fixed in the destructor of the CExtBarButton class:

CExtBarButton::~CExtBarButton()
{
CExtAnimationSite * pAcAS = AnimationClient_SiteGet();
            if( pAcAS != NULL )
                        pAcAS->AnimationSite_ClientRemove( this );
            _DestroyMenu();
            m_arrChildren.RemoveAll();
#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_CUSTOMIZE)
HDWP hPassiveModeDWP = NULL;
            OnKeyTipTrackingQuery( false, NULL, hPassiveModeDWP );
#endif // from (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_CUSTOMIZE)
            CtrlSet( NULL ); // destroy attached window
}

What is the purpose of TPMX_LEFTALIGN, TPMX_TOPALIGN etc. in CExtPopupMenuWnd::TrackPopupMenu. I cannot see any difference when using either of them?

I want the right margin of the menu to be at the given y coordinate.

Hello,

How can I get or compute the minimal height of the CExtReportGridWnd derived control in order to display all its content without need to use the scrollbars.
The use of RowCountGet() * DefaultRowHeightGet() does not work since rows have different height,

Thanks a lot.

I used CExtDynamicControlBar in dockable form.

Its hiding automatically.

Now I want to prevent resizing of this control bar.

For that what I have to do ?

The CExtFormulaGridWnd has nice copy/paste features. Is it also possible to use these in the CExtGridWnd?

Kind regards,

Bart.

Can anyone provide an example for filling  m_arrStaticStringValues in a CExtGridCellHeaderFilter. The documentations directs me to the FormulaGrid example but I cannot find the usage of this feature in the code. Neither can I find a filtering drop-down when I run the example.

Hello,

I want to place an image on dialog as a backgroud, What is the way to do that?

Hello,

I derived a window from CExtGridWnd and I want users to be able to either select a single cell or to select an entire row by clicking on the row header. So I thought I should modify the style like this:

SiwModifyStyle(

  __ESIS_STH_ITEM | __ESIS_STV_ITEM |  __EGBS_SFM_CELLS_H |

  __EGBS_SF_SELECT_OUTER_ROWS | __EGBS_NO_HIDE_SELECTION |

  __EGBS_GRIDLINES,

  0,

  false);

Strangely enough this alows to select multiple cells in a row but not selecting the entire row by clicking on the header. So I tried a lot of combinations with __EGBS_SFM_CELLS_H,  __EGBS_SFB_FULL_ROWS and __EGBS_SFB_CELLS but none of them does the trick.

Could anyone help?

Thanks.

Hi,

First, sorry for my english but i’m french...

I’m using Prof-UIS message boxes for the first time.

For this, I put the IMPLEMENT_CWinAPP_DoMessageBox; line of code into declaration of the CWinApp-derived class. This will replace all the ::AfxMessageBox() message boxes with Prof-UIS message boxes.

But all the text button are in english ("Yes" or "No") and not in french ("Oui" ou "Non").

Nevertheless, when i use Windows message boxes, the text button are in french.

How can i change the language of Prof-UIS message boxes?

Thank for your answers.

I’d like to add, that the translation is also incomplete for German resources.

ID_EXT_HEADER_FILTER_*

IDS_EXT_EMPTY_FOLDER_NAME_MSG_BOX_TEXT

IDS_EXT_OVERWRITE_THIS_FILE_MSG_BOX_TEXT

IDS_EX_MB_*

IDS_EXT_SHELL_LIST_VIEW_COLUMN_*

Thanks for correcting this!

We are working on this and the translated version will appear very soon. Thank you for your feedback.

We are sorry for incomplete French translation. There are two French resource files in the ...\Prof-UIS\Include\Resources\ folder and you can update the translation manually. The Resource_fra.rc file contains the LANGUAGE LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH translation of Prof-UIS resources. The Resource_frc.rc file contains the LANGUAGE LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN translation of Prof-UIS resources. You can open these files in any version of Visual Studio and translate the rest of string table resource which includes the message box related strings. Please note, you should save a copy of the ...\Prof-UIS\Include\Resources\resource.h file before translation and restore it after it. Of course, we will notify our translators but we are not sure these translations will be done quickly.

Hello,

I just upgraded from ProfUIS 2.84 to 2.85. However, I realized that my app .exe has increased in size of more than 3 mb (old exe size was 6.3 Mb, now it is 9.6 mb) without any changes done in my own code - the actual profuis lib file sizes when comparing to 2.84 are almost the same.

Can you please explan the reason for this? Since lib files in old and new are almost the same in size, why si there such a big increase in size if final exe? I know that you added a lot of new functionality, is it somehow possible for my exe to be around the size as in profuis 2.84? Or what approach do you recommend?

thanks,

krompo

the question 2 seems to be obvious, what I meant was if I can do all the exe size reducing parts in static versions as well or they are limited to only when I use profuis as a dll? or there is no difference, meaning what ever can be done in dll can be done as well when linking profuis statically?

when I switch to full version, I definetely need the possibility for my exe file to be max. the size as when building from profuis freeware (if smaller even better) but my final exe size should not be higher in full version as it is now in the freeware, so that is my concern.

If you are using Prof-UIS as a DLL, all the resources mentioned in our previous answer are kept as part of Prof-UIS DLL. So, all the resource size optimizations reduce the size of Prof-UIS DLL only.

If you are using Prof-UIS as a LIB, the Prof-UIS resources are inside the DLL or EXE module compiled by your project. They are included into the .rc2 file of your project. All the resource size optimizations in this case affect the size of your DLL or EXE compiled module.

Both freeware and full Prof-UIS versions have the same resources. The full version is more than two times rich with C++ components. So, the full version is larger than freeware. But, as we said, you can exclude everything unneeded and make the full Prof-UIS version is even smaller than freeware.

First of all we have new .../Prof-UIS/Include/ExtFormulaGridWnd.h and .../Prof-UIS/Src/ExtFormulaGridWnd.cpp source files containing enough large portion of source code. Second, we have new resources for the new geographic controls in the .../Prof-UIS/Include/Resources/ResGeoControls/ folder. These resources are included in the .../Prof-UIS/Include/Resources/resource.rc file:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Resources for geo controls

#include "ResGeoControls\\ResGeoControls.rc"

currently I am using the ProfUIS 2.85 freeware but in the near future I am going to purchase your full licence. I need to everything link statically (my app has MFC linked statically and I need statical linkage for ProfUIS as well, so that is my environment I need to follow).

1) does what you have just written apply to the freeware version as well?

2) if I buy the full version can I even more decrease the size of my final exe, maybe even less as in profuis 284? I mean are there any limits what can I comment out so that I get the smallest exe possible? ideal would be that only components I use will be put into my final exe, all other skiped out - is that possible?

krompo

Hello,

I would like to know if you plan to support in the near future themed property sheets/pages in the default mode (without the "Back" and "Next" buttons). I know prfuis supports wizard style property sheets but I am still missing themed property sheets which are needed for configuration and similar stuff (several tab pages within one dialog like window - you know what I mean). Can I expect that you will support it? Because that is the only final part in my app that is not themed and that does not look good.

thanks,

krompo

Currently I have all my settings implemented in MFC using CPropertySheet/CPropertyPage classes. I am just looking for the easiest and fastest way how to convert it to ProfUIS so I get my existing property pages themed by profuis. Do you think what you have just suggested is the best approach for my case or should I follow a different path?

thanks.

Here is the beta version:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/tmp/PropertySheetsBeta287.zip

Sir,

I am using CExtTabWhidbeyWnd class for creating the tabs. Tab names with single character are not visible on tab. Could you please help me in thi?

Thanks.

Please open the string resource table of the ProfStudio sample in the Visual Studio resource editor and find the IDR_PROFSTUDIOTYPE string in it. This string contains the following text:

\nProfStudio child window\nProfStudio child window

\n1\n1

We are currently using version 2.54. We have tried renaming IDR_PROFSTUDIOTYPE to single character string but it diddn’t work. Which version should we use in order to make single character string visible or is there any workaround?

Thanks

Hello !!

I have taken Edit control from MFC and then conveted it in to CExtEdit.

I want to change the font of it.

Please reply..

How can I add resizable bar in dialog based application ?