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How can I prevent the close box ’X’ from being displayed? I also want to disable tearing a controlbar from it’s dock site to float it. I still want the control bar to be retractable and keep the pin icon.

CExtReportGridWnd will cause an app to crash when its destructor is called under the following conditions:

CExtReportGridColumns are registered, CExtReportGridItems are registered.
NO CExtReportGridColumns are active.

An simple workaround is to make a column active in the destructor. Just letting you know in case others experience it.

I need to keep background color white and all other controls have to follow current Prof-UIS theme. How to make it?

I put this call into class constructor but it does not work with CExtResizablePropertPage, only works with CExtResizbleDialog. Any details where to put it?

I can’t find any info in ProfUIS samples and help file

I am checking the LanguageSwitcher now
How to make StringTable of Resource in VS2005 to support multi-language by easy way ?

I check the rc file in LanguageSwitcher, I dont know how to split different language by easy way. By hand ? Seem not to be a smart way.

When making a call to MenuInfoAdd in the ProfStudio example, the accelarator text vanishes from the menu items and shortcuts no longer work. Is there anything wrong that I am doing?

I just added the line below to the sample to reproduce the issue.

    VERIFY(
        CExtCustomizeSite::MenuInfoAdd(
            this,
            _T("Document"),
            IDR_PROFSTUDIOTYPE,
            true
            )
        );

Thanks

Yes but this problem occurs with specific build settings of the Prof UIS dll as mentioned in an earlier post.

There is an article Prof-UIS Customization Subsystem that can be a good starting point for getting started with how to use customize features. Did you read it?

I get a crash with the StyleEditor sample when MenuInfoLoadAccelTable is invoked. Could you please confirm if this an issue with customization? I am using a MBCS build of Prof UIS dll.

I send the modified StyleEditor sample by mail to reproduce the issue.

Thank you for the project. We reproduced the problem. But we are not sure that the problem has to do with Prof-UIS. If you search for new ACCEL in ../Prof-UIS/Src/ExtCustomize.cpp, you will find 3 lines like as follows:

LPACCEL pAccelArray = new ACCEL[ nCount ];

Were you able to reproduce this issue?

Actually not. To resolve this issue, would you modify the project settings so it crashes and send this project to us so we can figure out what’s wrong?

I cleared the registry and still getting the crash. Could you modify the StyleEditor sample with the settings I mentioned above and try it out?

You may need to clear up the registry state of your application to let the accelerators be loaded correctly instead of loading the previous saved state.

I built MBCS Debug build of Prof UIS DLL with the Struct Member alignment set to "1 byte" and calling convention as "__stdcall".
These are the settings I need for my application. I confirmed that the crash doesnt happen with the MBCS build with default settings.
Could you please look at the issue and confirm?

There should not be any problem with a custom structure alignment applied to the Prof-UIS code. Just make sure the same byte alignment is used in Prof-UIS as in your application.

When I insert a row into a grouped CExtReportGridCtrl, that group expands after I call UpdateSortOrder.

1. How can I keep the node from expanding?
2. How can I detect if the node is already expanded?
3. If I expand the node and have not called the sort update, does the expanding code go ahead and update the sort order?

The CExtReportGridWnd class is derived from CExtTreeGridWnd which implements a tree grid. So you can use CExtTreeGridWnd::Item***() methods based on HTREEITEM row handles for browsing the tree row. In the case of report grid control, the row’s HTREEITEM handle is a pointer to a report grid item (CExtReportGridItem*). The leaf rows without child items are the report grid items you registered in the report grid. All other non-leaf tree rows are built by the report grid dynamically. This allows you to detect the exact location of each row in the report grid window. Unfortunately you cannot insert a new item without without rebuilding the sort/group order completely. This feature is in our to-do list and we will implement this soon.

Thanks for the response that does explain some other questions I have.

My real concern is that when I insert an item int a collapsed group, it expands. I cannot have my application acting in this way.

I’m sure I can come up with a work around if this is the intended behavior.

Can a CExtSplitterWnd manage a CExtTabPageContainer (CExtTabPageContainerOneNoteWnd) ?
I try to create a project based on PageNavigator sample and TabbedBars sample.

m_wndSplitter.CreateView(
        0, 1,
        RUNTIME_CLASS( CTabView ),
        CSize(0, 200),
        pContext        
        );

where CTabView is a CExtTabPageContainerOneNoteWnd class:

class CTabView : public CExtWRB < CExtTabPageContainerOneNoteWnd >
{
// Construction
public:
    DECLARE_DYNAMIC( CTabView );
    CTabView ();
    ...
}

Can you give me some pointers on how to accomplish this?

There is a lot of flicker when moving the floated toolbar over the docked toolbars and menubar. Is this a known issue? If yes, when is it likely to be addressed?

Doesnt really help. Still see a lot of flicker.

Would you make a screenshot, highlight the area that is flickering and send it to us? It would allow us to help you more efficiently. Please note if you are using dialogs or form views, you can avoid flickering by turning on the Clip Children style for the dialog template in the resource editor.

I have a popup menu which is dynamically populated with menu items based on application context. In some cases there will not be any menu items for this popup menu. In this case I need to disable the popup menu. How would I go about doing this?

We’ve built Prof-UIS thousands of times on our development systems, and haven’t once had a problem, until today. We have one system where we’re getting a compiler error that implies that some MFC source is missing. Typically, I thought the source came from the VS 2005 installation, but these compiler errors imply that the compiler is looking for source within the Prof-UIS folder. Do you think you can help us figure out this problem?

Here are two screenshots that show you what the error is:

http://download.velocity11.com/dmatsumoto/profuishelp1.jpg
http://download.velocity11.com/dmatsumoto/profuishelp2.jpg

Thank you!

Hello guys, does anybody knows how to attach data to each CExtPropertyItem instance without inheriting the class. It derives from CObject and the shortcomming of CObject is that it has no "slot" for custom data (like SetWindowLong() API function). I just need to attach one interface pointer to every property item, but don’t know where! Please help!

Hi!!

If I can’t use such as the following methods,
I realized that the following codes work fine.
because I put some source codes generating dynamic popup menu items (started with 100 as below).
and I don’t know how many submenu items there will be so I can’t fix something stored in the registry.

g_CmdManager->SetBasicCommands
ProfileBarStateLoad

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// This works fine instead of the two lines above.
// This is only for a dynamic popup menu construction.

CExtCmdItem temp;
temp.m_nCmdID = 100;
g_CmdManager->CmdSetup(__PROF_UIS_PROJECT_CMD_PROFILE_NAME, temp);

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is there anything I need to consider if I want to use some codes above ?
or is there an alternative way ?

Many thanks in advance again.

Hi!!

If I got the following codes,
how to increase the width of a popup menu ?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LRESULT CChildFrame::OnExtMenuPrepare(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
CExtPopupMenuWnd::MsgPrepareMenuData_t * pData =
reinterpret_cast
< CExtPopupMenuWnd::MsgPrepareMenuData_t * >
( wParam );
ASSERT( pData != NULL );
CExtPopupMenuWnd * pPopup = pData->m_pPopup;
ASSERT( pPopup != NULL );


// Here...I can, of course, use pPopup (which points a popup menu)
// I want to increase and extend its width here...


Any comment would be very very welcome.
Thanks in advance.

You can insert one or more space characters at the beginning/end of a menu item. You can also add the left area to the menu as it is demonstrated in the ProfUIS_Controls sample. Please let us know more details about this? Why do you need a larger menu than that provided by the currently installed paint manager by default?

As it is a dynamic popup menu, I don’t know the length of some menu items.
If the length of a menu item is short enough, it is no problem.
But what-if it is long...
At the moment, around 10 characters can be shown.
The remaining characters are shown like dot dot dot (...) or nothing being shown.
So I just need to increase its width.

Thanks.

I tried to compile sample project with VS2005, but I didn’t get any message from vs2005
It was occured the unknown software exception by devenv.exe
I used Prof-UIS v 2.64 and VS2005 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
However, I could compile with VS6.0

How can I solve this problem?

Please, help me.

Because couldn’t compile ProfUISDLL project

Hi

From a ftp site, I acquired prof-uis0418.zip.

However, there was not print page appointment.

　But other bugs are revised.

　When does completion of Version that these functions are usable rightly seem to be?

The app ran fine under XP, but on Vista the Edit controls in a CExtResizableDialog show a strange behavior: The text becomes invisible when the mouse cursor crosses the control border. Is is still there, but it’s probably not redrawn... it might be related with the scrollbar, it only appears if a scrollbar is visible. If I select it with the mouse the selected line becomes visible again as it is redrawn. The behavior occurs after merely adding a control in the resource editor, without adding a variable to it.

Is there a chance that you can tell what could be the reason or how I could avoid this, or should I try to create a small app that reproduces the behavior?

Thanks,
Chris

(sorry - previous post was posted by mistake)

I noticed that the new version 3.70 fixed the problem, but not in every place.

I have a wizard:
CExtNCW<CWizard> dlg;
dlg.DoModal();

The wizard is a property sheet, it has a page:
class CWizard : public CExtResizablePropertySheet
{
// ...
CExtAPPG<CImportWizardSourcePage> m_sourcePage;
//...
};

The page is a property page, it has an edit control:
class CImportWizardSourcePage : public CExtResizablePropertyPage
{
//...
CExtEdit    m_editSourceEdit;
//...
}

This edit control has both sliders visible, and both autoscroll flags set. The text disappers if the mouse crosses the edit control border.
If I hide the sliders, the text remains there but it flickers if the mouse crosses the border.

Please advise what I could do to avoid this problem, I would like to release my software soon...

Thank you very much,
Chris

I noticed that the new version 3.70 fixed the problem, but not in every place.

I have a Wizard Page with a CExtEdit:
class CImportWizardSourcePage : public CExtResizablePropertyPage

Thank you for your comments. Please open the CExtResizablePropertyPage::OnHookWndMsg method and replace the existing WM_ERASEBKGND case block with the following:

case WM_ERASEBKGND:
{
	ASSERT_VALID( this );

	// look through the message map to see 
	// if this message is handled by user
	const AFX_MSGMAP_ENTRY * lpEntry = 
		_FindMessageMapHandler(
			nMessage,
			0, 0
		);
	if( lpEntry != NULL )
	{
		// invoke the user defined message handler
		union 
		{
			AFX_PMSG pfn;
			BOOL (AFX_MSG_CALL CWnd::*pfn_bD)( CDC* );
		} mmf;
		mmf.pfn = lpEntry->pfn;
		LRESULT lResult = 
			(this->*mmf.pfn_bD)( CDC::FromHandle( ( HDC ) wParam ) );
		return lResult > 0L ? true : false;
	} // if( lpEntry != NULL )

	HDC hDC = reinterpret_cast < HDC > (wParam);
	ASSERT( hDC != NULL );
	HWND hWnd = ::WindowFromDC( hDC );
	if(		hWnd != NULL
		&&	hWnd != m_hWnd
		)
		return 
			CExtHookSink::OnHookWndMsg(
				lResult,
				hWndHooked,
				nMessage,
				wParam,
				lParam
				);

	if(		(GetStyle() & WS_CLIPCHILDREN) != 0
		&&	PmBridge_GetPM()->GetCb2DbTransparentMode(this)
		)
		return (!0L);

	// HDC hDC = reinterpret_cast < HDC > (wParam);
	// ASSERT( hDC != NULL );
	CExtPaintManager::stat_ExcludeChildAreas(
		hDC,
		GetSafeHwnd(),
		CExtPaintManager::stat_DefExcludeChildAreaCallback
		);

	return (!0L);

} // case WM_ERASEBKGND

Thanks for this reply.

Can you name a date when a fix is available?
Or better, can you tell me a workaround or how I can manually fix this?

I plan to deliver my application soon, and this is a critical issue...

Thanks,
Chris

Please open the CExtWS::WindowProc method and replace the if( message == WM_ERASEBKGND ) { ... } code snippet with the following:

if( message == WM_ERASEBKGND )
{
    ASSERT_VALID( this );

    // look through the message map to see 
    // if this message is handled by user
    const AFX_MSGMAP_ENTRY * lpEntry = 
        _FindMessageMapHandler(
            message,
            0, 0
        );
    if( lpEntry != NULL )
    {
        // invoke the user defined message handler
        union 
        {
            AFX_PMSG pfn;
            BOOL (AFX_MSG_CALL CWnd::*pfn_bD)( CDC* );
        } mmf;
        mmf.pfn = lpEntry->pfn;
        LRESULT lResult = 
            (this->*mmf.pfn_bD)( CDC::FromHandle( ( HDC ) wParam ) );
        return lResult;
    } // if( lpEntry != NULL )

    HDC hDC = reinterpret_cast < HDC > (wParam);
    ASSERT( hDC != NULL );
    HWND hWnd = ::WindowFromDC( hDC );
    if(        hWnd != NULL
        &&    hWnd != m_hWnd
        )
        return CExtWSBase::WindowProc( message, wParam, lParam );

    if(        (GetStyle() & WS_CLIPCHILDREN) != 0
        &&    PmBridge_GetPM()->GetCb2DbTransparentMode(this)
        )
        return (!0L);

    CExtPaintManager::stat_ExcludeChildAreas(
        hDC,
        GetSafeHwnd(),
        CExtPaintManager::stat_DefExcludeChildAreaCallback
        );

    return CExtWSBase::WindowProc( message, wParam, lParam );

} // if( message == WM_ERASEBKGND )

Hi,
I have a form with Control Group Box, Button, Radio Buton, etc. These are created dynamically. The Group Box overlaps the other controls. When I click within the group box area, then the control will be displayed. The problem might be due to the order of creation or the tab order set. Is there a way to send the group box to the back always?

Thanks

You should create a group boxe before you create any other controls in it. Alternatively, you can move the group boxe to the bottom Z-order using the SetWindowPos() API with HWND_BOTTOM parameter or CWnd::SetWindowPos() method with the &wndBottom parameter.

We have to run Sheet/Pages in Tab mode what works fine. Now we have to make position to the particular tab and we use:

sheet.SetActivePage( x ).

It shows target tab, but swithces to Wizard mode, but we do not have tabs any more. So, how can we come to tabs and position to the particular tab?

I see this in the BitmapEditor example, what does it do?

class CMainFrame
    : public CExtNCW < CFrameWnd >
...

I experimentally removed CExtNCW<>, and the app seemed to run the same, with no visual differences. I can’t find it in the docs.

Thanks