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Hello.

I want to change a status message displayed in this point.

In that case, should I use the following commands?

LRESULT CMainFrame::WindowProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

{

 LRESULT lResultX;

 LRESULT lResult;

 bool    blRet;

 switch( message )

 {

 case WM_SETMESSAGESTRING:

  Status Message....

  return 0;

 default:

  break;

 }

 lResult = CMuMdiFrame::WindowProc( message , wParam, lParam);

I want to prevent the user collapsing a Pane in a CSGExtPageNavigatorWnd Page. I’ve looked through all the CExtPageNavigatorWnd::ITEM_PANE_INFO and CExtPageNavigatorWnd::PAGE_ITEM_INFO etc. functions and can’t find a way to do this. How can I accomplish this?

Thanks,

Neville, http://www.surfulater.com

Further to my last request I want to start with certain Panes Expanded and others Collapsed. How can I do that?

Thanks,

Neville, http://www.surfulater.com

You can do this either with CExtPageNavigatorWnd::ItemPaneExpand() or with CExtPageNavigatorWnd::ITEM_PANE_INFO::Expand().

The file menu in a ribbon bar is kind of ugly and inconvenient (not your fault if just copied from MS).

For example, submenus have their entries starting at the top rather than starting at the level of the submenu selected.  Consider the Unlock menu below.  The user must move the mouse down to the item, then back up to the top to select one of its sub-items.  It’s kind of cumbersome compared with a traditional menu.  Is there an alternative you can suggest?

Also, the right part of the menu is usually just a large mostly empty space.  I’m not sure why it’s so big.  Can it be adjusted?

And finally, we handle our MRU list (most-recently used) differet from the standard way, and display something more than just the file name.  Is there a way I can change the MRU list shown on the right to contain my own items?

Thanks,

Rob.

I’m facing a big problem trying to include the RibbonNodeFile in the Formula Grid Sample. I tried everything including copying the example from RibbonBars, but it didn’t work. I’m moving from CodeJock to Prof-UIS, but the help really didn’t help me.

Pelli

The FormulaGrid sample application demonstrates a simplified ribbon bar layout without the ribbon file button (a.k.a. application button). Some applications do not require rich and big ribbon file menu and we just used the FormulaGrid sample application to demonstrate such ribbon bar layout. The CMyRibbonBar class in this sample application have the following implementations of the ribbon bar’s virtual methods:

 virtual bool Ribbon_FileButtonInit() { return false; }
      bool RibbonLayout_IsFrameIntegrationEnabled() const { return false; }

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Please compile and run the following modified version of the RibbonBar sample we have just created for you and take a look at the usage of the stat_MyCreateRibbonGalleryItem() function in it:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/RibbonBar-Custom-Draw-File-Button-Gallery.zip

In most cases ribbon galleries contain only big icons. The stat_MyCreateRibbonGalleryItem() function creates big icons displaying text like you need.

Is there a way to change the height of that gallery?  It seems to be a fixed height that isn’t set anywhere in the sample.  But as you can see in my original screenshot, the menu is taller than the gallery, and when there’s enough stuff in the gallery to need a scroll bar it seems a shame not to make the most of the full menu height.

Ideally I’d just want to make it the same height as the menu.

Thanks,

Rob.

Here is how the size of a gallery control of the ribbon file menu is initialized in the constructor of the CExtRibbonNodeFile class:

   m_sizePopupGalleryControl = m_sizePopupGalleryControlMin =
                        m_sizePopupGalleryControlMax = CSize( 350, 330 );

CExtRibbonNodeFile * CMainFrame::_InitRibbon_FileMenu()
{
CExtRibbonNodeFile * pRibbonNodeFile = new CExtRibbonNodeFile;


            pRibbonNodeFile->m_sizePopupGalleryControl
                        = pRibbonNodeFile->m_sizePopupGalleryControlMin
                        = pRibbonNodeFile->m_sizePopupGalleryControlMax
                        = CSize( 350, 500 );


            pRibbonNodeFile->CmdKeyTipSet( new CExtCustomizeCmdKeyTip( __EXT_MFC_SAFE_TCHAR( _T(’F’) ) ), false );
            pRibbonNodeFile->m_keyTipOptionsButton.KeyCodeAdd( DWORD(’T’) );
            pRibbonNodeFile->m_keyTipExitButton.KeyCodeAdd( DWORD(’X’) );
. . .

Hey, this looks great, just what I needed.

Thanks,

Rob.

We assume the ribbon’s file menu is a very specific UI part. It has approximately the same size in all the applications of Office 2007 and contains approximately the same set of items. We hope it’s not our fault because the ribbon UI have not been invented by us.

First of all, the ribbon file button is a ribbon gallery. All ribbon gallery buttons display a popup menu with gallery control at top and, optionally, a set of menu items at bottom. All ribbon galleries are resizable in both directions or in vertical direction only. But the ribbon file button is an exception. Unlike other galleries, it has a specific skinned look, menu items on the left side, a gallery control on the right side, optional two buttons at bottom or one of these buttons (Options and/or Exit), popup sub menus of the menu level next to the top ribbon file gallery level also have a specific look and position, which is designed to cover gallery control. But the ribbon file gallery and other galleries use the same APIs and virtual methods. The gallery control inside ribbon file button does not contain MRU entries. It does contain what you have inserted. The CMyRibbonBar::OnRibbonGalleryInitContent() virtual method in the RibbonBar sample application initializes all the gallery controls you can come across within the ribbon bar including gallery control inside ribbon file menu. The ribbon file button is initialized at the end of this method. The ribbon gallery control (the CExtRibbonGalleryWnd class) is advanced version of Prof-UIS toolbox control (the CExtToolBoxWnd class). So, gallery items are toolbox items. You should simply initialize your MRU items as toolbox items. You should implement the CExtRibbonPage::OnRibbonGalleryItemSelEndOK() virtual method in your CExtRibbonBar-derived class to handle selection of the ribbon gallery items.

Ah thanks, I hadn’t realised the MRU list was filled in elsewhere.  I have my MRU list working the way I want now.

Weird that the MRU menu is handled differently from other submenus though, which otherwise look similar and appear in the same place.  I’d like to show items in the MRU list similar in style to those in the SaveAs list of the ribbon sample, that is, with a bold headline and non-bold text underneath.  For menus this is done using __ECTN_BOLD_IN_MENU and SetTextMenuExtended().  Since the MRU list is done as a gallery, how would I achieve the same effect?

Thanks,

Rob.

(1) Is it possible to have tool tips for ribbon bar tabs?  How would I do that?

(2) Is it possible to display an icon to the left of the text in ribbon bar tabs?  That is, an icon for each tab.

Thanks,

Rob.

I presume it’s not possible to put the ribbon bar vertically down the left or right side?  Any plans to allow something like that?

With most monitors being wide-screen these days, vertical real estate is a premium, so it’s a better use of space to have all controls down the sides.

Thanks,

Rob.

Hi,



When using the Office 2007 Obsidian theme, which is our prefered one, the area behind the quick access bar is almost black.  But our icons are designed for use on a light background and are really hard to make out.  The ribbon itself still has a light background, so designing icons that show up well on both is somewhat difficult.



I notice that when the window loses focus, it sometimes goes grey, and then the icons are clearly visible.  I would suggest that just for the QA area this lighter grey is always used (keeping dark grey for the rest of the title bar).  Is there a straight forward way for us to make this happen?



I say "sometimes goes grey" above because I’m noticing right now that the window title and QA stay very dark when the window loses focus, until another window is dragged over it and dragged off again, causing a redraw which draws in the lighter grey.  So it’s not redrawing properly when the window loses focus.  This is using your Office demo by the way, not my own code.  I’ve seen a lot of redraw issues using Prof-UIS, which worries me.

Dark background when window has focus, icons are hard to see:





Light background when window loses focus (if it redraws correctly), icons are easier to make out:

Rob.

Dear Support,

My CExtPopupMenuWnd code is below:

HMENU oMenu;
 
{
 if((oMenu = LoadMenu(GlobalInstance,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_menuTpContextMenu)))!=NULL) //!Get the sub-menu.
CMenu menu;
menu.Attach(oMenu);
 //!Use the Prof-uis menu class.
CExtPopupMenuWnd* pPopup =
pPopup->UpdateFromMenu(GetParent()->m_hWnd, &menu,new CExtPopupMenuWnd;true, true, true);
 //!Use the name of TP A for the header of this context menu.
pPopup->MenuCaptionTextSet(strTpA.c_str());
 //!Put the name of TP B into the ’Transfer from’ and ’Transfer to’ commands.
string str = (boost::format(m_st.GetString( IDS_strTransferTo)) % strTpB).str();
pPopup->ItemSetPopupText(pPopup->ItemFindPosForCmdID(ID_TransferAtoB), str.c_str());
str = (boost::format(m_st.GetString( IDS_strTransferFrom)) % strTpB).str();
pPopup->ItemSetPopupText(pPopup->ItemFindPosForCmdID(ID_TransferBtoA), str.c_str());//!Show the menu
pPopup->TrackPopupMenu( TPM_CENTERALIGN | TPMX_NO_CMD_UI | TPMX_HIDE_KEYBOARD_ACCELERATORS, point.x, point.y);
 

Thanks,

Gil

Q1) I have a class derived from CExtResizableDialog which includes a Toolbar and Tree control. I want to change this to use CExtPageNavigatorWnd inside the CExtResizableDialog and have my Tree control as a Pane inside the CExtPageNavigatorWnd. I have this working but need to get the CExtPageNavigatorWnd to be the same size as as its parent  CExtResizableDialog and to resize when it resizes. How do I do this?

Q2) Can I use a Toolbar CSGExtToolControlBar as a CExtPageNavigatorWnd Pane?

Thanks,

Neville

You should create a CExtPageNavigatorWnd window as a child of the dialog window in the dialog’s OnInitDialog() method. Please invoke the dialog’s GetClientRect() and use the obtained rectangle when creating the page navigator control. Then add anchors to the just created page navigator control using the pYourDialog->AddAnchor( pWndPageNavigator->m_hWnd, __RDA_LT, __DRA_RB ); code. This code should be invoked immediately after the page navigator has been created and it will make the page navigator control automatically covering the entire dialog’s surface.

Yes, you can use a Prof-UIS toolbar as a child of any kind of window. It’s possible to make a toolbar having a multi row layout of buttons (so it looks like a palette window with a set of tools). But the CExtToolBoxWnd control demonstrated in the FormEditor sample is a better implementation of the palette control and it supports categories. The most often case of non-redockable toolbar usage is demonstrated in many resizable bars of the ProfStudio sample where a static toolbar is present at top of a dialog window created as a child of a resizable bar. The Solution Explorer and Class View bars contain such toolbars.

To place the Toolbar inside a CExtPageNavigatorWnd Pane I have created a CExtResizableDialog derived class and insert this in the pane. The RC entry is:

IDD_KnowledgeTreePageDLG DIALOG DISCARDABLE  0, 0, 101, 82

STYLE WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE

FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"

BEGIN

    CONTROL         "",IDR_KnowledgeTreeToolbar,"ProfUIS-ControlBar",0x2034,8,4,57,14

END

The Toolbar is displayed but the buttons are bank. If I hover over them the Status Bar displays the correct Tooltips. Clicking on a button does nothing. Looking at CExtBarButton::OnDeliverCmd(), g_CmdManager->CmdGetPtr() returns NULL. The name returned from g_CmdManager->ProfileNameFromWnd()  is " PageNavigator-132513112-2708-6032".

The ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI( ) functions are called for each Toolbar button. The ON_COMMAND_EX() functions are not called.

The same Toolbar worked perfectly inside the original CExtResizableDialog I used before embedding a CExtPageNavigatorWnd inside it.

Please make your child dialog, which is inside a page navigator, is using its own command manager’s profile. You should invoke the following code in the dialog’s OnInitDialog() virtual method:

static TCHAR g_strCommandProfileNameOfYourDialog[] = _T("MyDialogInisdePageNavigator");
            if( ! g_CmdManager->ProfileSetup( g_strCommandProfileNameOfYourDialog, m_hWnd ) )
            {
                        VERIFY( g_CmdManager->ProfileWndAdd( g_strCommandProfileNameOfYourDialog, m_hWnd ) );
            }

g_CmdManager->UpdateFromToolBar( g_strCommandProfileNameOfYourDialog, ID_YOUR_TOOLBAR_RESOURCE );

Thank you very much, that solved the Toolbar problem.

Neville http://www.surfulater.com

Something like ItemSetParent?

Thanks,

Ron.

This is provided by the CExtTreeGridWnd::ItemCopyMove() method. It can either move tree brunches or clone them. There is also another CExtTreeGridWnd::ItemCopyMoveTest() method, which allows you to determine whether you can move a tree item or not. It’s not possible to change the parent item of a tree item to its child item.

In the past you said it’s in development - what is the status of this feature?

Thanks,

Ron.

We mean you can drop us an e-mail so we can provide you with the source code update.

I will e-mail...

Just to clarify - is this a new feature in 2.84?

You need the source code update before tree grid becomes sort-able in your projects.

What do you mean? does this work only in 2.84? When is 2.84 going to be releases?

At present we can only say that it’s implemented:

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

Dear Support,

I need to know if an item in a tree (a row) is visible or not. I see that the function ItemGetVisibleIndexOf can tell me if an item is collapsed or not, but I also need to know if it is within the visible part of the grid - if I have 200 rows, and only 20 are visible, I would to do some periodic checks vs the database only on these 20 items, and leave the other 180 rows to time when they are visible.

Thanks,

Ron.

This is provided by the CExtTreeGridWnd::ItemCopyMove() method. It can either move tree brunches or clone them. There is also another CExtTreeGridWnd::ItemCopyMoveTest() method, which allows you to determine whether you can move a tree item or not. It’s not possible to change the parent item of a tree item to its child item.

The CExtTreeGridWnd::ItemGetVisibleIndexOf() method returns a zero-based index of tree item in the entire available scrollable range of grid rows. The CExtScrollItemWnd::OnSiwGetVisibleRange() method returns ranges of visible columns and rows. The returned CRect::top and CRect::bottom values specify zero-based row indices of the first and last visible grid rows.

I have a CExtTreeGridWnd-derived class that is horizontally scrollable. I would like to fix the position of the first 3 columns such that they do not scroll when the horizontally scrollbar slider is changed. Is this possible? How is it accomplished?

Thanks,

Gil

hi

How can I programmatically resize a CExtRibbonNode object, which style is __ECTN_TBB_TEXT_FIELD ?

 ( I use it in a tool group for which normal and large ILV are removed)

How can I programmatically change its font ?

Hello.

The environment is 6.0 vc++.

When one DLL has 1700 source codes.

Build is slow. ( The compiler uses pch. )

debug start takes time.

Please teach a good solution.

Dear support,

When I drag a docked control bar, there are some cases the whole application will be hold for a period, say, 1-2 mins. During this, I cannot control anything about the application. Is it a known-bug at the library?

Regards,

Chun Pong

Dear Sirs,

We have some problems with class derived from CExtNCW <CMDIFrameWnd>:

class CMainFrame : public CExtNCW <CMDIFrameWnd>

When we move windows toolbar from it’s default position and dock it to the left or top screen edge and then maximize application window, we can see that this window is not fully maximized as shown in pictures:

The gap between window and screen edge has the same width as windows toolbar.

This problem occured with following prof-UIS versions:

2.83

2.84 (ExtNcFrame-updated-files-284.zip)

2.84 v2 (ExtNcFrame-updated-files-284-Version-2.zip)

Do you know how to solve it?

Thanks a lot, e-mail sent.

Best regards,

Pawel Kalinowski

We have just sent our reply by email.

Thanks a lot!

I’m trying to track down the UI thread locking up on my application. Here’s a quick debug dump:

STACK_TEXT: 

0012f2ac 7c827d0b 7c83d236 0000031c 00000000 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

0012f2b0 7c83d236 0000031c 00000000 00000000 ntdll!NtWaitForSingleObject+0xc

0012f2ec 7c83d281 0000031c 00000004 00000001 ntdll!RtlpWaitOnCriticalSection+0x1a3

0012f30c 7c82f20c 7c8877a0 00000000 0012f408 ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection+0xa8

0012f340 7c82f336 00000000 00000000 0012f388 ntdll!LdrLockLoaderLock+0x133

0012f3bc 7c82f2a3 00000001 00000001 00000000 ntdll!LdrGetDllHandleEx+0x94

0012f3d8 77e65185 00000001 00000000 0012f440 ntdll!LdrGetDllHandle+0x18

0012f424 77e6528f 0012f440 0012f9dc 0012fa38 kernel32!GetModuleHandleForUnicodeString+0x20

0012f89c 77e65155 00000001 00000002 7ffdfc00 kernel32!BasepGetModuleHandleExW+0x17f

0012f8b4 77e64769 7ffdfc00 00000000 7822716b kernel32!GetModuleHandleW+0x29

0012f8c0 7822716b 781df614 0012f9fc 10010475 kernel32!GetModuleHandleA+0x2d

0012f8cc 10010475 00000000 0012f9dc 0012fa38 mfc80!CDC::GetLayout+0xe [f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\wingdi.cpp @ 698]

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ProfUIS282m!CExtMemoryDC::__InitMemoryDC+0xa5

I’m trying to remember exactly what I was doing with this but I believe I started up another UI thread in order to have a hovering "cancel" box above our main application with it’s own UI thread running normally. I’m going to keep digging on this, but has anyone seen anything like this before? The main problem is after the cancel box goes away the main application is simply locked up and has to be killed. This unfortunately only happens "every now and then." It’s obviously driving me insane. Any hints would be fabu.

Hello.

I want to make the movement of the focus impossibility to a specific cell.

Please teach a method.

We changed the source code of the CMyMlGrid::FocusSet() virtual method in your project:

CPoint CMyMlGrid::FocusSet(
            const POINT & ptNewFocus,
            bool bEnsureVisibleColumn, // = true
            bool bEnsureVisibleRow, // = true
            bool bResetSelectionToFocus, // = true
            bool bRedraw, // = true
            bool * p_bCanceled // = NULL
            )
{
    ASSERT_VALID( this );
CPoint ptNewFocus2;
            ptNewFocus2 = ptNewFocus;
            if( ptNewFocus2.y >= 5 )
                        ptNewFocus2.y = 4;
            return CExtGridWnd::FocusSet( ptNewFocus2, bEnsureVisibleColumn, bEnsureVisibleRow, bResetSelectionToFocus, bRedraw, p_bCanceled );
}

CRect & _SelectionAreaConvert( CRect & rcArea ) const;

 CRect & CMyMlGrid::_SelectionAreaConvert( CRect & rcArea ) const
{
    ASSERT_VALID( this );
            if( rcArea.top >= 5 )
                        rcArea.top = 4;
            if( rcArea.bottom >= 5 )
                        rcArea.bottom = 4;
            return rcArea;
}

You should override the CExtGridBaseWnd::FocusSet() virtual method in your CExtGridWnd ()-derived class.

CPoint CYourGridWnd::FocusSet(
            const POINT & ptNewFocus,
            bool bEnsureVisibleColumn, // = true
            bool bEnsureVisibleRow, // = true
            bool bResetSelectionToFocus, // = true
            bool bRedraw, // = true
            bool * p_bCanceled // = NULL
            )
{
            ASSERT_VALID( this );
CPoint ptOldFocus( FocusGet() );

bool bAllowFocusSetting = . . . // compute  whether focus can be set to the grid cell at the ptNewFocus location

            if( ! bAllowFocusSetting )
                        return ptOldFocus;
            return
                        PARENT_CLASS_OF_CYourGridWnd_CLASS::FocusSet(
                                    ptNewFocus,
                                    bEnsureVisibleColumn,
                                    bEnsureVisibleRow,
                                    bResetSelectionToFocus,
                                    bRedraw,
                                    p_bCanceled
                                    );
}

Hello.

There is the pattern that does not work well.

I ask for an answer.

SiwModifyStyle( __ESIS_STH_NONE....

http://ifreeta.dee.cc/20081018/SampleMuGridNewSample.lzh