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Hello

I have a dialog based application.
I use the CExtResizableDialog as base class for my CMainDlg class.
But I have troubles with reloading Accelerators and Child Dialogs after I will switch language.
ToolBars and Menu I updated Ok, but then I calling some modal dialog after I change the language, always loading dialog which language has been set
at OnInitDialog() of main dialog.


void CMainDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
.....
switch(nId))
    {
    case 1033:
        g_ResourceManager->SetLangIdDesired( 1033 );
        break;
    case 1049:
        g_ResourceManager->SetLangIdDesired( 1049 );
        break;
    ...
    }
...
}
...
void CMainDlg::OnButton()
{
    CMyDlg dlg;
    dlg.DoModal();
}

How I can reload all resources(Accelerators,String Tables,etc ) for Dialog based application after language switching?

Hello,
I added string at resource of Your application "LanguageSwitcher"

ID_STRING_TEST
at both resource-Russian and English
and set for this ID different value at each "String Table"

So I add following code at Your application:

void CChildFormView::OnCustomLanguageSelected()
{
int nCurSel = m_comboLanguagePreference.GetCurSel();

    
    if( nCurSel >= 0 )
    {
        WORD nLangID = (WORD)
            m_comboLanguagePreference.GetItemData( nCurSel );
        g_ResourceManager->SetLangIdDesired( nLangID );
        HBITMAP hBitmap = GetLangBitmap( nLangID );
        m_staticActiveLanguage.SetBitmap( hBitmap );
        m_staticActiveLanguage.Invalidate();
    } // if( nCurSel >= 0 )
    ResetLocalizedResources();

    // Test
    CString str;
    str.LoadString(ID_STRING_TEST);
    
}

When I change current language from Russian to English and and vice versa the str always loaded value from Russian resourse.

Question:

How I can load string from resource depend on current language?

Hello.
I have loaded the new version of your product 2.27, and I have remark for you Prof-IUS Help exactly about class
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
class CExtCustomizeSite
Remarks
The CExtCustomizeSite class implements customization mechanism for toolbars and menus. The class also serves as an intermediate for drag-n-drop operations during customization.
Header
ExtCustomizeSite.h
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
I have not found a file ExtCustomizeSite.h. This class declared at ExtCustomize.h file
Perhaps this is your defect or I upload some corrupted version.
I also meets this problem of calling some method of this class for example:
CExtCustomizeSite::MenuInfoRemove();
VERIFY
CExtCustomizeSite::MenuInfoAdd(
this,
_T("Default"),
IDR_MENU1,
true

After the compil: a get an error:


: error C2653: ’CExtCustomizeSite’ : is not a class or namespace name

Although I make an include of ExtCustomize.h

I has just been upload new version 2.27
And I meets with problem:

I create toolbar on the dialog and set the transparent color :

    g_CmdManager->UpdateFromToolBar(

GetApp()->m_pszRegistryKey,
IDR_BAR1,
NULL,
NULL,
false,
true,
RGB(255,255,255));

When dialog is appeared the transparent color do not set. When I used 2.25 version of Prof-UIS all was OK.
Thank You.

Hi,

I would like to detect if my Prof_UIS application has run for the first time. If so, would like to set the initial size and positions of the controlbar, toolbar and menus. I am told that I have to use DockControlBarInnerOuter, DockControlBarLTRB and SetInitDesiredSizeFloating. I have not been able to make use of these functions accurately. Would appreciate if you could guide me through this with a sample code.

I call SetInitDesiredSizeFloating right after creating the controlbar, but it is not working. Besides, I don’t know if I have to create my own mechanism to detect the first-time application launch or there already is a way to find out from the registry entries cereated by Prof_UIS.

Appreciate your help.

Saroj

Sorry about that last post, i don’t know what happened to the rest of my message.  Anyways,  I was wondering if there was a control in the prof-uis library that would act as a static docksite for floating windows, similar to CExtControlBar windows that tab inside each other.  In the application I am developing, i wish to have a control as the main view that is simply a place to tab windows that will either be floating on the desktop, or tabbed in that view.  Is there such support in prof-uis?  Any help would be appreciated,

Thank you

Typically the frame window-based application contains a set of toolbars and resizable control bars that are floating or docked to frame edges. The central part of the frame window is occupied with the view window in case of SDI applications or with the MDI client area window in case of MDI applications. So, the frame window usually is a pop-up window and all other windows inside the frame are its child windows (the windows inside resizable control bars, toolbar buttons, dialog bars, view windows, status bar panes, and etc.). Of course, you can create the frame window as a child. For instance, you may create the child frame inside the central part of the main frame window (i.e., to replace the view window with the child frame). You may also create the frame window as a child of a resizable control bar that, in its turn, is a child of the main frame window. All these tricks are absolutely possible and limited only by imagination. There is no ready-to-use child frame control in Prof-UIS because we suppose the child frame is not of much use. But it can be used in some cases, for example as an ActiveX control with the dockable control bars. In almost all other cases, it’s not a good idea to deal with the child frame window.

If you only need tabs in the view area of your SDI project, you may use tab page container control similar to that used in the SimpleGrids sample application. If some tabs should be detachable, then it may be reasonable to put these pages into the resizable panels. Anyway, if you provide us with more details on the requirements to the GUI design you need (either by e-mail or here), we will advice you on how to do this in the most appropriate way.

A layout like the SimpleGrids sample application is exactly what I’m looking for.  The only difference being that as well as having the views tabbed in the main view, i’d like to be able to float them and dock them again in the tabbed view  (using a dragging mechanism preferably).  I’d use resizable panels, but i’d like for the main view to always be the tabbed view.  I’ve thought about simply implemented a menu feature or something to the same effect to "detach" the window from the tabbed views, and by doing so, throwing it into a CExtControlBar at runtime in a floating position, but that seemed like more of a workaround than a solution.

Any more suggestions?

Now it is completely clear what you need. Currently Prof-UIS supports detachable tabs only for resizable control bar windows. The tabs in main views may be implemented either by means of the MDI interface or by using the tab page container as a view window in case of the SDI interface. But in both cases these tab containers does not support the tab detaching to make the corresponding windows floating. This feature is in our TO-DO list.

That is great, I look forward to the time when that feature is implemented.  I am interested to know if this feature has a possibility of being implemented by June-July 2005?

Hello.

I created a ListCtrl at resource editor on the dialog form.
After I did add it to the container CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd as

VERIFY( m_wndTabPageContainerFlat.PageInsert( &m_ListCtrlEdit, _T("ListCtr") ) );

but I meets with problem:
I did add an Event Handler for CListCtrl:

Message Map:
....
ON_NOTIFY(NM_DBLCLK, IDC_LIST, OnDblClick)
...

void CMyDialog::OnDblClick(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult)
{
}
But when I do double click on Item at ListCtrl. I do not get in OnDblClick(...).
What I should to do for resolve this problem?I do not want to create my CListCtrl dynamicly.

Hello.

I used CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd as a base class for custom control.
My TabPageContainer contain more one Tab.
I need to make some initialize of controls inside container before appearing of form when I did click at tab on the TabPageContainer.

What method of CExtTabPageContainerFlatWnd I need to redefine or make something else?

Hi,

how can I set  how the captions are display for docked contral bars. For example: By default, if docked to the left of the frame window and in auto-hide mode the caption is displayed in a tab using a top-down oriented font. How can the font be changed to bottom-up? If two control bar are docked inside each other the captions are shown in tabs located at the bottom of the docked group. How to display the tabs at the top of the group?

I believe I have seen this in the examples or somewhere in the forum, but I not sure. At least, I cannot remember exactly where.

Could you please give me a hint?

Thanks, Ulrich     

Hi Tech Support,

It sounds silly to ask this question but I am struggling with this. I wanted to add key board functionality in my code (which is derived from DrwaCLI sample code) so that when F1 or F2 is pressed, I could do certain things within my code.

I had tried processing OnChar() or WM_CHAR messahge in my MainFrame.cpp or in any other view, I never get this message ? ANy idea why such a simple thing is not working with my application ?? Same thing happened when I tried to add keyboard processing in your DrawCLI sample code. Looks like the problem exists in both.

Your help is highly appreciated.

Saroj

Please tell me how to set radio marks on my menu items (like on Windows Explorer when choosing between thumbnails, list, icons, etc view in the View menu.

Hello.

I have some trouble with CExtControlBar.

I create a two MDI Projects using Prof-UIS 2.25.1, I used (Prof-UIS ) App wizard for this.
All option for each project I leave by default.
At One app I used a CView as base class for View and CFormView at another.
I created Resizable Bar at each application at Child window (CChildFrame).

// CChildFrame message handlers

int CChildFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    if (CMDIChildWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
        return -1;

    
    
    if(    !m_wndResizableBar.Create(
            _T("Bar1"),
            this,
            ID_VIEW_CHILDFRAME_BAR_FILTER
            )
            
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create Bar1\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

    if( !m_wndInBarDlg.Create(
            IDD_IN_BAR_DLG_DOC,
            &m_wndResizableBar
            )
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndInBarDlg\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }


    m_wndInBarDlg.ShowSizeGrip( FALSE );
        
    

    if( !CExtControlBar::FrameEnableDocking(this) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }

#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_TAB_CONTROLBARS)
    if( !CExtControlBar::FrameInjectAutoHideAreas(this) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }
#endif // (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_TAB_CONTROLBARS)

    m_wndResizableBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
    m_wndResizableBar.DockControlBar( AFX_IDW_DOCKBAR_LEFT, 1,this,false );
return 0;
}


The problem consists in following: in the second application arise problem with representation
of Resizable Bar. After the panel was latent. I move the cursor to the Bar area, but Bar does not leave back.
In the First Application all works perfectly.

Dear Sir,

There might be two bugs in CExtBarColorButton, when using them in a toolbar ni a child frame window :

1. When using the icon CExtBarColorButton::e_def_icon_type_t::__DIT_CHAR, we obtain a black box instead of a colored "A" char. However, when the button is disabled, the gray "A" char is correctly displayed.

2. When using the icon CExtBarColorButton::e_def_icon_type_t::__DIT_FRAME, there are "dirty" pixels around the frame. This has been noticed on a Windows 98 SE system (correct with Windows 2000 and XP).

An image describing the problems can be found at http://chrguibert.free.fr/Image4.png.

Best Regards,

Christophe Guibert

Hi,

I would like to use BITMAP for the CExtButtons on my CExtControlBar (which contains dialog box). I know it is very easy to load the ICONS using the following lines of code...but not sure if there is a similar function for Bitmaps.

m_BtnStartLive.SetIcon(ID_SCPPV_NEXT);

where ID_SCPPV_NEXT is ID for the icon.

Thanks,

Saroj

Also please note that the following lines of code does not work in my application:

Hello.

I try to create Resizable control Bar inside Child window of MDI Application(Doc/View Architecture)
My child window is CFormView.
I saw this at Your sample-MDI_InnerOuterBars.
I did override CChildFrame::OnCreate and no entry in this function while run the application.

How I can create a Resizable control Bar inside Child window?

Any dockable control bar window, regardless whether it is based on the MFC CControlBar class, or on the Prof-UIS CExtControlBar, is designed to interact with a frame window (e.g., CFrameWnd, CMDIFrameWnd, or CMDIChildWnd). It is always linked to its frame window. You cannot insert a dockable control bar into a window that is not based on CFrameWnd, like a dialog or view. Your main MDI frame window contains the MDI client area window, which is usually dark grey. It serves as a container for MDI child frames (CMDIChildWnd). These child frames are containers for their view windows and may have their own control bars. We suppose you have initialized the control bar in the CChildFrame::OnCreate method correctly and this method should be called when a child frame is created. It may not be called if you have manually removed the ON_WM_CREATE macro from the message map of the CChildFrame class. So, to clarify the problem we need to take a look at your source code. You may send it to us via e-mail.

Hello.
I did check my code... Sorry, I realy forgot to add to the code OnCreate in Message Map.

I successful created a Bar. But I seems with following problem:
My Resizable Control Bar contain a dialog inside but when application start the Bar is empty.


Child window where I create a Resizable Control Bar is derived from CFormView.
I did override some function like

BOOL CDocListView::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
    if (WM_KEYFIRST <= pMsg->message && pMsg->message<= WM_KEYLAST)
    {
        if (m_hAccel && ::TranslateAccelerator(m_hWnd, m_hAccel, pMsg))
            return TRUE;
    }

    return CFormView::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}
and

void CDocListView::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy)
{
    CFormView::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);
    if(bInitComplete == TRUE)
    {
        
        GetClientRect(&rect);
        rect.left = rect.left+250;
        m_ListCtrl.MoveWindow(&rect);
    }
}

And CChildFrame class code.


int CChildFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    if (CMDIChildWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
        return -1;

    
    
    if(    !m_wndResizableBar.Create(
            _T("Panel"),
            this,
            ID_VIEW_CHILDFRAME_BAR_FILTER
            )
            
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create Panel\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

    if( !m_wndInBarDlg.Create(
            IDD_IN_BAR_DLG_DOC,
            &m_wndResizableBar
            )
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndInBarDlg\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

    m_wndInBarDlg.ShowSizeGrip( FALSE );
    
    if( !CExtControlBar::FrameEnableDocking(this) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }
#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_TAB_CONTROLBARS)
    if( !CExtControlBar::FrameInjectAutoHideAreas(this) )
    {
        ASSERT( FALSE );
        return -1;
    }
#endif // (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_TAB_CONTROLBARS)

    m_wndResizableBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
    m_wndResizableBar.DockControlBar( AFX_IDW_DOCKBAR_LEFT, 1 );
    
    return 0;
}
BOOL CChildFrame::OnBarCheck(UINT nID)
{
    return CExtControlBar::DoFrameBarCheckCmd( this, nID, true );
}
void CChildFrame::OnUpdateControlBarMenu(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
    CExtControlBar::DoFrameBarCheckUpdate( this, pCmdUI, true );
}

Dear Sir,

Compiling current ProfUIS 2.26 libraries causes 5 compilation errors with Visual C++ 6.0 sp6 :

--------------------Configuration: profuislib - Win32 Static MBCS Debug--------------------
Compiling...
ExtCmdManager.cpp
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\transact.h(226) : error C2059: syntax error : ’constant’
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\transact.h(271) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ’;’ before ’}’
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\oledb.h(17149) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ’;’ before ’}’
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\oledb.h(17149) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ’;’ before ’}’
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\oledb.h(17149) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ’;’ before ’}’
   Prof-UIS is automatically linking with version.lib
      (Version info support)
Error executing cl.exe.

ProfUIS226smd.lib - 5 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Other builds (DLL, release...) give the same errors.

Note : An older 2.26 download (October 19th, without the latest patch) gives no error.

Could you give me a hint please ?

Best Regards,

Christophe Guibert

Dear Christophe,

We have carefully tested Prof-UIS 2.26 with Visual Studio 6.0 (VS 6.0, VS 6.0 SP5, and VS 6.0 SP6). Many of our users use Visual Studio 6.0 and Service Pack 6. Nobody reported this problem before. So, we assume the compilation error is caused by some other Visual Studio update like Platform SDK. If you have Platform SDK installed, let us know. Please also provided us with a list of include directories in your Visual Studio 6.0 (menu Tools/Options, Directories tab).

You are using Platform SDK which has been primarily created for Visual Studio .NET.

MFC 4.2, which is distributed with Visual Studio 6.0, was compiled with older Win32 header files. This fact explains the problem. We designed Prof-UIS to be compatible with all versions of Visual C++ and with all versions of Windows (starting from version 4.0 (95 or NT)). You probably noticed that all projects have the following preprocessor symbol definitions:

_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400
_WIN32_IE=0x0400

Hi,

I am trying to create a toobar with a Combobox and few buttons on it so that I could type in a Text on the combobox and the place/remove the text on my View when certain buttons on the same toolbar is clicked. I have been able to create the Combo box along with the buttons on the same toobar using the following lines of code. But the problem is that the Combobox is not fully visible and the toolbar is too small to fit all the buttons. I cannot make this bar longer and when I increase the size in Y-direction, I could see the other buttons but Combobox is clipped. Can you help me to get this problem solved ?

Thanks,

Saroj

Code used to create the toolbar:

CExtComboBox m_wndComboWebLoaction;

CExtToolControlBar  m_wndToolBarWeb;

BOOL CMainFrame::OnCreate(..)

{

:

CreateTextAnnotationToolBar();

m_wndToolBarWeb.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);

:

DockControlBar(&m_wndToolBarWeb);

:

}

BOOL CMainFrame::CreateTextAnnotationToolBar()

{

static const UINT arrWebTbBtns[] =

{

ID_ANNOTATION_DEFINE_TEXT,

ID_SEPARATOR,

ID_ANNOTATION_DEFINE_TEXT,

};

if( !m_wndToolBarWeb.Create(_T("Text Annotation Toolbar"), this, ID_VIEW_TEXT_ANNOTATION_TOOLBAR )

|| !m_wndToolBarWeb.SetButtons( arrWebTbBtns, sizeof(arrWebTbBtns)/sizeof(arrWebTbBtns[0]) )

)

{

TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndToolBarWeb\n");

return(FALSE); // fail to create

}

if( !m_wndComboWebLoaction.Create(

WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBS_DROPDOWN,

CRect(0,0, 300, 500),

&m_wndToolBarWeb,

ID_ANNOTATION_DEFINE_TEXT

)

)

{

TRACE0("Failed to create ID_WEB_URL\n");

return(FALSE); // fail to create

}

VERIFY(m_wndToolBarWeb.SetButtonCtrl(m_wndToolBarWeb.CommandToIndex(m_wndComboWebLoaction.GetDlgCtrlID()),&m_wndComboWebLoaction) );

m_wndComboWebLoaction.SetFont(CFont::FromHandle((HFONT)::GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT)) );

m_wndComboWebLoaction.SetItemHeight(-1, m_wndComboWebLoaction.GetItemHeight(-1) - 1 );

return(TRUE);

}

 

Hi,

Are these new samples (as shown on the web page) part of version 2.26 or they are only available with this Frame feature ? I am specially interested in DrawCLI sample application.

Thanks,

saroj

All samples listed on the Samples page except for ThemeColorizer are are already available in Prof-UIS 2.26. The new ThemeColorizer sample is implemented with Prof-UIS 2.27, which we plan to release next week.

Hi,

I have latest Prof_UI V2.26 installed in my computer. I downloaded both V2.26 and the patch and re-installed it again just in case I am missing any of the new files. I still get the old style sample applications. For example, in your sample window on the web site, the DrawCLI application has got Text along with the Line Icon. In my sample application, I just get the line Icon as I used to have earlier. AM I missing something ? I would like to modify my application so that it would look same as in your sample application on the web.

Saroj

Hello.

I created MDI application.

I want to use one menu (IDR_MAINFRAME) for all type of opened (created) documents. I change name of each menu item as :
void CMainFrame::OnCreate(....)
{
....
CExtBarButton * pExtButton = NULL;
CExtCmdItem * pCmdItem = NULL;.
pExtButton = m_wndMenuBar.GetButton(0);
nIDTmp = pExtButton->GetCmdID();
pCmdItem = g_CmdManager->CmdGetPtr(g_CmdManager->ProfileNameFromWnd(m_wndMenuBar.GetSafeHwnd()),nIDTmp);
            pCmdItem->m_sToolbarText = "Item One";

return 0;
}

When I create a new document (window) the menu is changing to IDR_... menu of document, I deleted all menu from resource except IDR_MAINFRAME. All looks like Ok. But when I try to maximize the child window, all Items at topmenu is changing name to default how they defined at resource.

How I can to solve this problem?

I use Doc/View architecture.

The problem is, that after I have renamed the name of items of the menu(main menu) in a method CMainFrame:: OnCreate at maximize of child window there is a change of the name of all items of the menu (main) on initial (as they are defined in resources)


Example : Menu is defined as:
     File | Edit | View |
    Open
    New
    ....
I change name "File"to "Item One"
    Item One | Edit | View |
    Open
    New
    ....
When I maximize child window names "Item One" was change to File.
How to redraw menubar or do something else that so that after change of the size(maximize/ minimize) of child window was kept "Item One"?

Dear Olga,

To implement a single menu line for all types of MDI windows/documents is not difficult. First of all, please make sure that you have removed all document menu resources like IDR_somethingTYPE. You need only the IDR_MAINFRAME resource. Of course, you may create any other menu resources like context menus.

A. If your app is NOT based on the document/view architecture, you should use the following code in the CYourApp::InitInstance method:

HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetResourceHandle();
m_hMDIMenu  =
   ::LoadMenu( hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME) );
m_hMDIAccel =
   ::LoadAccelerators( hInst, 
    MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME) 
   ); 

void CYourApp::OnFileNew() 
{
CMainFrame * pFrame =
   STATIC_DOWNCAST( CMainFrame, m_pMainWnd );
   pFrame->CreateNewChild(
      RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame),
      IDR_MAINFRAME,
      m_hMDIMenu,
      m_hMDIAccel
   );
}

VERIFY(
   g_CmdManager->UpdateFromMenu(
     pApp->m_pszProfileName,
     IDR_MDITYPE
     )
); 

CMultiDocTemplate * pDocTemplate =
   new CMultiDocTemplate(
      IDR_MAINFRAME,
      RUNTIME_CLASS(CYourDoc),
      RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame),
      RUNTIME_CLASS(CYourView)
      );
AddDocTemplate( pDocTemplate ); 

I use Doc/View architecture.

The problem is, that after I have renamed the name of items of the menu(main menu) in a method CMainFrame:: OnCreate at maximize of child window there is a change of the name of all items of the menu (main) on initial (as they are defined in resources)


Example : Menu is defined as:
     File | Edit | View |
    Open
    New
    ....
I change name "File"to "Item One"
    Item One | Edit | View |
    Open
    New
    ....
When I maximize child window names "Item One" was change to File.
How to redraw menubar or do something else that so that after change of the size(maximize/ minimize) of child window was kept "Item One"?