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CMainFrame::OnSysCommand() is not called when Skinned UI Theme in use. ex. Obsidian. This appears to be because CExtNCW::WindowProc() doesn’t call _BTNCW::WindowProc() because NcFrameImpl_IsSupported() returns true when Obsidian etc. is in use.

This prevents me capturing click on Minimize button et.all.

Is there a work-around for this? And will it be fixed in a future release?

Thanks,

Neville http://www.surfulater.com

Hi,

I would like the tab control to not appear unless I have more then one tab, like it’s done in FireFox. Is this possible?

Another option we consider is to implement the ’New Tab’ option in IE7/8 - is this possible?

Thanks,

Ron.

Hi,

i have a database with some PNG image into and want to you this image as RibbonButton. The class CExtSkinButton can only load PNG file form the resource or a file, but i receive the data from the database into a buffer. So i need a function in CExtSkinButton to load the PNG from the memory. How can i do this?

Thanks

Ulrich

Hi support,

As soon as you have time could you please respond to my issues:

http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/support-forum/prevent-pane-being-collapsed-in-a-csgextpagenavigatorwnd-page-62317.aspx#@lt;/p>

Thanks,

Neville

Please answer pending questions.

Thanks.

Sorry for the delay. The feature you requested, sorting a tree grid when clicking on its header cells, is implemented:

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

Can I get the source-code for it as well?

The sorting does not work in this sample application.... clicking the column header and also the icon and selecting the sort A-Z Z-A does not do anything. Please check...

Hello.

I want to make the page of the tab hide.

Or is it necessary to remake a tab every time?

Thanks,

I am attempting to make a CExtControlBar and its child semi transparent.  Here is my code:

    // Set the status window transparent

    if (m_wndECBStatus.ModifyStyleEx(0, WS_EX_LAYERED | WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, 0) == 0)

    {

        TRACE("Failed to ModifyStyleEx on the Status Window! ERROR(%u)\n", GetLastError());

    }



    if (m_wndECBStatus.SetLayeredWindowAttributes(0, 0, LWA_ALPHA) == 0)

    {

    TRACE("Failed to SetLayeredWindowAttributes on Status Window! ERROR(%u)\n", GetLastError());

    }

The call to SetLayeredWindowAttributes always fails with error code 87.  The documentation says that 87 means invalid parameter.  The only thing that I can find as far as a reason why is that the control bar is being created with the WS_CHILD attribute.  I have read that a window needs the WS_OVERLAPPED or WS_POPUP attribute and will not work with WS_CHILD windows.

I have tried the WS_OVERLAPPED attribute but it still does not work.    I have also tried WS_POPUP however it trips an ASSERT in the Create function of CWnd (I think).

Do you have any suggestions as to how I may make this work?

Thanks in advance,

 Chris F.

Actually a floating control bar is made up of three windows:

1) The floating mini frame window (also known as a floating palette window). It is a CExtMiniDockFrameWnd window in the case of Prof-UIS. It is a CMiniDockFrameWnd window in the case of MFC. Both are kind of CFrameWnd. So, invoking control bar’s GetParentFrame() method returns a pointer to the main frame for docked control bars and a pointer to the floating palette frame for floating control bars.

2) The child of the floating palette frame window is dock bar window (CDockBar). It completely covers client area of its parent floating palette window.

3) The dock bar’s child is control bar which is switched into floating state.

Such construction is required because parent window of re-dockable control bar is always dock bar window both in MFC and Prof-UIS. You should make the floating palette frame window layered - not the control bar window. You should use your own CExtControlBar-derived class which implements the CExtControlBar::OnCreateFloatingFrame() virtual method. Your implementation of this virtual method should be similar to original but it should make the floating palette frame window layered with required transparency level.

Hello.

http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/support-forum/cextgridcellnumber-question-62178.aspx#62352

It looks like you are using screen coordinates somewhere where client coordinates should be used instead.

Hello.

I cannot understand a revision point.

Please revise a sample.

Give my best regards.

We checked the following test project:

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

And it works. Tooltips are displayed at correct screen places. Here is the compiled version of this project:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/TestGridCellValidation-BIN.zip

Please check it.

Dear Support,

I have a need for the same feature - I see that when I change the text, the balloon flickers heavily - can this be fixed? It is very hard on the eye like this...

Thanks,

Ron.

Hello.

The application does not work definitely.

A tool tip is displayed in the improper place.

We do not believe in magic. Could you please let us connect to your computer and debug this test project? If yes, then please drop us an e-mail with information about how and when should we connect?

Hello.

I want to display the character string of the list of combos in right justify.

It is possible only if you create a CExtGridCellComboBox-derived class and override the CExtGridCellComboBox::OnPopupListBoxItemDraw() virtual method in it. This method is used to draw each item in a combo box. Just copy the original method code and change the text aligning flag (DT_LEFT to DT_RIGHT).

Hi,

I’m trying to compile this scripting example, but have some problems with that.

First I can not register the ProfUIS226md.dll and ProfAuto226md.dll

Getting RegSvr32 error: LoadLibrary(...)failed - The specified module can not be found.  

And during the linkage I get:

1>Linking...

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual bool __thiscall CExtCustomizeSite::GetToolbarCustomizeInfo(class CExtToolControlBar *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode * *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode * *,class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > *,bool *)" (?GetToolbarCustomizeInfo@CExtCustomizeSite@@UAE_NPAVCExtToolControlBar@@PAPAVCExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode@@1PAV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@PA_N@Z)

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > __thiscall CExtCustomizeSite::OnFormatCmdAccelText(class CExtCustomizeSite::CCmdKeyInfo const &)" (?OnFormatCmdAccelText@CExtCustomizeSite@@UAE?AV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@ABVCCmdKeyInfo@1@@Z)

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual void __thiscall CAutoCustomizeSite::OnTextFieldInplaceTextGet(class CExtBarTextFieldButton const *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode const *,class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > &)" (?OnTextFieldInplaceTextGet@CAutoCustomizeSite@@UAEXPBVCExtBarTextFieldButton@@PBVCExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode@@AAV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@@Z)

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual void __thiscall CAutoCustomizeSite::OnTextFieldInplaceTextSet(class CExtBarTextFieldButton *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode *,class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > &,char const *)" (?OnTextFieldInplaceTextSet@CAutoCustomizeSite@@UAEXPAVCExtBarTextFieldButton@@PAVCExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode@@AAV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@PBD@Z)

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual bool __thiscall CExtCustomizeSite::OnColorItemGetBtnTextDefault(class CExtBarColorButton *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode *,class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > &)" (?OnColorItemGetBtnTextDefault@CExtCustomizeSite@@UAE_NPAVCExtBarColorButton@@PAVCExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode@@AAV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@@Z)

1>MainFrm.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual bool __thiscall CExtCustomizeSite::OnColorItemGetBtnTextCustom(class CExtBarColorButton *,class CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode *,class ATL::CStringT<char,class StrTraitMFC_DLL<char,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<char> > > &)" (?OnColorItemGetBtnTextCustom@CExtCustomizeSite@@UAE_NPAVCExtBarColorButton@@PAVCExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode@@AAV?$CStringT@DV?$StrTraitMFC_DLL@DV?$ChTraitsCRT@D@ATL@@@@@ATL@@@Z)

1>.\Debug/ProfUISTestScripting.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 6 unresolved externals

- Could you pleace tell me what is wrong, or fix the example to current version ProfUis283.

Thanks in advance.

Dear Support,

I have a CExtButton object that displays an icon only. That is, no text. The problem is when this button has the focus, the focus rectangle is not displayed. If text is added to this button, the focus rectangle is shown (around the text) as expected. How, when the button is icon only, can I get the focus rectangle to display? I have another bitmap that should be used when the button has the focus, but I do not know to which CExtButton member variable this icon should be assigned.

Thanks,

Gil

Hi

The following statement seems not to be working in the V2.83:

     m_treeGrid.ItemEnsureExpanded(hTreeItem, true);

If I replace it with the following, everything works well:

    if (!m_treeGrid.ItemIsExpanded(hTreeItem))

    {

      m_treeGrid.ItemExpand(hTreeItem, TVE_EXPAND, true);

    }

These code snippets should be equivalent, right?

To me it seems to be a bug, or then I do not understand the ItemEnsureExpanded propperly.

Regards - Peter

It’s not uncommon to have two controls in the interface which lead to the same command, however Prof-UIS wants to give them all the same label, which is not always appropriate.



For example, my main menu may have "Tools->Render->Options" whereas elsewhere the same item may be accessible via a small menu that opens off a toolbar button, and there the item may be labelled "Render Options".  The point being that the label is different for those two items (the label for the first item just being "Options").



We have quite a few examples like this in our interface.  But when I change the label on one item, Prof-UIS changes the other too.  OK, if I tell it to change the label for a specific command ID that would make sense, but when I set the label for a given menu item, it should not change others with the same ID.  And if I load a new menu, it should not change existing menu labels where IDs match.



Same applies to toolbar buttons too, where icons and text are both forced to be the same where IDs match.



This would be a good default, but is it really impossible to avoid for specific controls?



Thanks,

Rob.

Your task requires a different solution. You cannot use generated HMENU as is because customizable toolbars and menus are based on command tree nodes rather than on Win32 menu handles. You should code a small recursive function which creates command tree nodes with CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode objects created from the generated menu tree structure. The root of this command tree should be the one which corresponds to a toolbar button. If this node has child nodes, the toolbar button is a drop-down button. The child nodes will be used for creating a popup menu displayed by this toolbar button. This task requires knowing additional details because of:

1) The user can drag-n-drop and clone toolbar buttons and menu items:

2) Each toolbar has two command trees: initial and current. The current one describes displayed buttons and sub menus. The initial one is used for resetting the toolbar by re-creation of the current tree from the initial one.

There is an alternative and not complicated approach for displaying your dynamically constructed HMENU tree. You can use some command with known ID_MY_MARKER_COMMAND identifier in menus and handle the CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPrepareOneMenuLevel registered message which allows you to construct and/or modify each popup menu sub level between it will appear first time on the screen. Your handler method will search for the ID_MY_MARKER_COMMAND menu command item, remove it and insert menu items from your dynamically constructed HMENU tree into the same place. For instance, the DRAWCLI sample application have such marker items in menus where you can see the Recent File marker menu item in File menu and OLE VERBS GO HERE maker command in Edit menu of menu bar. This approach automatically solves all the issues related to cloned copies of the ID_MY_MARKER_COMMAND command in all the menus. You can use the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsertCommand() method for dynamic menu construction. You can assign icons to menu items which are not based in the command manager. You can get icons from the command manager using the CExtCmdManager::CmdGetIconPtr() method. This approach allows you to construct fully working menus identical to your your dynamically constructed HMENU tree.

I tried your idea of creating a tree of CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode.  But now my buttons don’t appear as drop-downs at all.

I’m calling CExtBarButton::SetBasicCmdNode() with the root of my CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode tree.  I have deleted the customization data (which we have in a file rather than the registry).  I’m also calling CExtBarButton::SetSeparatedDropDown() and CExtBarButton::SetAutoChangeID() and CExtCmdItem::StateSetSeparatedDD(), but none of these make a difference.  The button no longer has a drop-down.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob.

We think we can help you better if you describe your task as a list of several items so we can try to implement it in a test project or in any of our sample applications. Alternatively, you can send us your test or real project so we can check what’s wrong.

This forum makes it difficult to spot new posts, so I’m not sure if you saw my second reply yesterday:

==========================

I tried your idea of creating a tree of CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode.  But now my buttons don’t appear as drop-downs at all.

I’m calling CExtBarButton::SetBasicCmdNode() with the root of my CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode tree.  I have deleted the customization data (which we have in a file rather than the registry).  I’m also calling CExtBarButton::SetSeparatedDropDown() and CExtBarButton::SetAutoChangeID() and CExtCmdItem::StateSetSeparatedDD(), but none of these make a difference.  The button no longer has a drop-down.

Any ideas?

==========================

It seems like this method should be less convoluted than the other, but I can’t even get the button to show a drop-down.  What am I missing?  Is there a sample that uses this method?

Thanks,

Rob.

We think we can help you better if you describe your task as a list of several items so we can try to implement it in a test project or in any of our sample applications. Alternatively, you can send us your test or real project so we can check what’s wrong.

Thanks for the suggestion.  However we’d like our toolbar drop-down menus to be tear-offs, and it seems that the second technique you describe (using g_nMsgPrepareOneMenuLevel) might have problems with that.  Is that right?  Would the first technique work? (Create tree of CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode).

Thanks,

Rob.

No. We need to explain you some details about tear-off menus:

1) Tear-off menu can be connected to any CExtControlBar-based control bar - not only to CExtToolControlBar toolbar.

2) The CExtPopupMenuWnd should have the TPMX_TEAROFF flag (you can set it using the CExtPopupMenuWnd::TrackFlagsSet() method) and the CExtPopupMenuWnd::_IsTearOff() virtual method should return true value. In case of non-customizable menus you will need to use your own-derived class and implement this virtual method. This is convenient if your popup menus are created dynamically. You can insert your popup menu class instance as sub-menu into other popup menu using the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsertSpecPopup() method.

3) The window which handle is specified in the hWndCmdRecv parameter in invocation of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::LoadMenu(), CExtPopupMenuWnd::UpdateFromMenu() or CExtPopupMenuWnd::CreatePopupMenu() should handle the CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgTearOff registered message like the CExtCustomizeSite::OnHookWndMsg() method does. It should initialize the m_hWndTearOff property of data structure passed in message parameters with window handle of control bar window used in tear off effect tracking.

That’s all.

By default all toolbar buttons and menu items are based on CExtCmdItem command descriptions in the command manager. In the case of menus, it’s possible to initialize menu command items which are not based on command manager by using the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsertCommand() API instead of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsert () API or by specifying true in the bNoRefToCmdMngr parameter of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::LoadMenu() and CExtPopupMenuWnd::UpdateFromMenu() APIs. In case of customizable toolbars and menus you can specify unique toolbar/menu texts using the CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode::SetTextInToolbar() and CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode::SetTextInMenu() APIs.

Thanks for the tip, however I’m a bit lost.  The menus in question are created on the fly (in code, not from a resource) using plain old CMenu and AppendMenu() to add items.  Somewhere down the track I guess Prof-UIS gets itself involved somehow and changes my menu labels (if their IDs are also used elsewhere).



Are menu items subclasses as Prof-UIS classes at some point?  What call does that?  Is there a way to get the label set with CMenu::AppendMenu() to stick?  Or will I need to do something later after Prof-UIS has done its thing to turn them back?

Also, I have a similar problem with buttons on the ribbon bar.  Same command ID, but should show a different icon in different places.  If worse comes to worst, I can use different IDs, but I’m curious about whether it can be done with the same IDs (and using different IDs won’t be so easy for me with the menu problem).



Thanks,

Rob.

Hi,



Still waiting for feedback on this.



Currently we create a menu using CMenu::CreateMenu() & CMenu::CreatePopupMenu(), and add items using CMenu::AppendMenu().  We then attach the menu to a toolbar button using CExtToolControlBar::SetButtonMenu(buttonIndex, menu.Detach()).



So we don’t use Prof-UIS calls to create the menu, but the command manager still manages to change their labels, so I presume somewhere down the track Prof-UIS subclasses my menus from Prof-UIS classes.  Is this the case?  If so, what call does this?



It looks like maybe I can create the menu using Prof-UIS calls instead by creating a CExtPopupMenuWnd, then using ItemInsert() or ItemInsertCommand() to populate it.  Then how do I access an item after creating it in order to call CExtCustomizeCmdTreeNode::SetTextInMenu() as you suggest?  And how do I put the whole menu on a toolbar button?  SetButtonMenu() requires a HMENU.



Thanks,

Rob.

We are sorry for the delay with this reply. By default all the menu command items are based on CExtCmdItem command descriptions stored in a CExtCmdProfile command profile inside the CExtCmdManager command manager (the g_CmdManager global smart pointer variable). The CExtCmdItem object contains all the text properties of a command. The CExtCmdProfile command profile also contains the CExtCmdIcon icon objects which can be optionally assigned to commands. You are constructing menus dynamically. This approach is OK. But please ensure the dynamically constructed menu commands have command identifiers which are not intersected with statically defined menu commands in the menu resources of your projects. Prof-UIS uses the 29000 . . . 31000 range of identifiers for everything including menu commands, toolbar commands and any resource identifiers. It’s also not recommended to intersect with this range.

It’s also possible to use you dynamically constructed menus without changing dynamically generated identifiers of menu commands. The CExtPopupMenuWnd popup menu also supports menu command items which are not based on the command manager. Such menu command items should be inserted into popup menu using the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsertCommand() method (instead of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemInsert() method) or using the false value in the bNoRefToCmdMngr parameter of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::LoadMenu() and CExtPopupMenuWnd::UpdateFromMenu() methods.

When the user choose an option from the drop list, I need to open a dialog - the problem is that teh drop list is not closed yet. How do force close it?

Thanks,

Ron.

Thanks,

Ron.

Well... is there a way to do it?

Hi,

I have a combo-box that contains a list of sorted string, just like a normal combo, but after these strings I need to place a separation line, and the item ’Other...’ that needs to open a dialog box for chose other values.

Is there any way to do this in Prof-UIS?

Thanks,

Ron.

Each item in the combo box cell stores a user-defined value. You can specify it when adding new items with InsertString or AddString</code> methods or change it at runtime with the SetItemData method.

Then you should override the CExtGridCellComboBox::OnPopupListBoxSelEndOK virtual method and check if the user defined-value associated with selected item is equal to the value you assigned to the ‘Other..’ item. If yes, then show your dialog box.

Hello.

In Japanese edition Excel2007, I do hover of a button.

However, a status message is not displayed.

In MicroSoft-Ribbon and Prof-UIS-Ribbon, why are specifications different?

Give me an answer if not busy.