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Hi,

Is it possible to use advanced tooltips, like those available for ribbon bars, on normal toolbars or tabbed toolbars?

If so, how?

Thanks,

Rob.

In one particular CExtPropertyGridCtrl I have, I don’t want to allow the user to sort it.  I want to display only the Categorized view.  I would like to either:

(A) Remove the categorized/sorting toolbar buttons entirely;

(B) Gray out the Alphabetical sort button (or both buttons); or

(C) Have the Alphabetical sort button do nothing.

I remember reading in another Support thread that the CExtPropertyGridCtrl by default creates two CExtPropertyGridWnd’s: One for Categorized, and one for Sorted.  Would the solution to my dilemma be having it create only the CExtPropertyGridWnd for the Categorized view, and not create the CExtPropertyGridWnd for the Sorted view at all?  If so, how do I accomplish this feat?

Again, as I have to do almost every week, I need to check what of my bug reported you partially ignored, which ones you completly ignored, and nudge you again and again...

Wouldn’t it be easier for all of us if you just reply to bug reports, and fix them?

We are here Ron and continuing answering your questions. Nothing is lost.

Hi,

It seems that two rows of pixels at the top of menus are not drawn properly, looks like ther are missing:

The MS Office menus can have different look on different Windows versions or after different updates. We suspect this is a result of some system parameters change or simply a new feature of MS Office software update. Could you please also show us a second screen shot demonstrating how menu should look like? Do we need only move the menu item one pixel upper and closer to menu bar’s button?

Dear support team,

e.g. 3 control bars are grouped together. I can know any one of them by CExtControlBar::IsFloating() method. But do I know if they are grouped together like below?

| . . . . . . . |
| . . . . . . . |
--------------
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
--------------

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Chun Pong

Hi,

CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true; locks all control bars in my application. How do i pin or fix individual control bars or make selectively some of the tool bars (or controls bars) non dockable and some of them dockable,

Some times when i make the non-dockable by CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true; even the title bar in the dialog become non dockable in the sense the cross button (close button on top right corner ) also vanishes to make the dialog non-dockable.

Thanks,

Ranga

I want to paint custum background graphics or image in CExtResiablePropertySheet, CExtResiablePropertyPage and CExtResiableDialog.

I tried to do this at draw OnPaint , OnEraseBackground and OnCtlColor....etc...

But my paint method did not show, Only I can view CExt.... Theme background....

How to do this ? please help me

Hi

I have implemented prof-ui advanced tool bar for the user interface of my application. There are atleast 2 tool bars within each of the interface. I had actually wanted to fix (non-dockable type) the tool bars and have done so by using following line of code 

  CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true;

When i am logged in as administrator in my system the application’s user interface has these two tool bars fixed  as expected by the above line of code.It also does not permit the user to rearrange the toolbars (as expected). 

When i am logged in as the normal user in the system the two tool bars move up and down whenever I click on the interface. Though I am not able to move/dock physically the two tool bars using the grippers, the two tool bars move up and down of its own whenever i click on the user interface

The tool bar docking behaves differently when loged in administrator mode and normal user mode in the system .

Regards,

Howard

Our further testing shows the same behaviour in administartor or normal user mode. Sorry for the confusion on this condition (admin/normal user)

The behaviour is I have two seperate tool bars in a user interface (primary tool bar appears on the top and secondary appears below in the second row - this requirement).

After applying  CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true;

the tool bars are physically non-dockable by the user as expected but when i close and open the user interface the primary and seconday tool bars appear  in the same row. The primary tool bar is for the text and the secondary tool bar is for the graphix. When i click on the graphix pane within the user interface the secondary tool bar (that of graphix) comes back to the second row below the primary tool bar.

So the behaviour is on opening the interface the primary and secondary tool bar appears on the same row and when clicked inside the interface the secondary tool bar moves down. However the tool bars are physically non dockable by the user

Thanks

We guess you should lock all the bars using the CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars = true; code but you should invoke it earlier initialization step. Please note Prof-UIS does not save/restore the CExtControlBar::g_bLockAllBars flag value. If you are able to change control bar position using mouse, then this flag is false.

Hello.

I want to change a title of CExtControlBar.

Please teach a command.

Trying to compile ProfUISDLL, MBCS Debug I get the following compiler error:

ExtTabbedToolControlBar.cpp

..\Include\ExtCmdIcon.h(580) : error C2177: constant too big

i.e the line it complains about is:

double percentH = 0.0,

In VS 2005 that is. Haven’t verified the same problem with other VS-versions. Also I’m talking about ProfUIS 2.83.

Hi,

I would like to display an edit button in a grid cell only when the cell is hovered - is this possible?

Thanks

Ron.

Here is a small test project which demonstrates the grid cell buttons like you need:

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

You can find a number of grids with hovered buttons in the SimpleGrids sample. Please let us know if there is any that you are looking for?

Dear Support,

I tried to get into the code there, but it’s very hard to understand what is going on there...

Can you please give me some guidelines as to how to do the following:

I have a cell, that when hovered I want to display a button in it, when not hovered, it should not display that button.

Thanks,

Ron.

OK - great - saw it in the simple grids. Will try it out.

What I mean is that the button is displayed only when hovered over the cell. Is this possible?

There is a set of __EGWS_BSE_BUTTONS_IN_*** styles which should be used with CExtGridWnd::BseModifyStyle() / CExtGridWnd::BseGetStyle() methods. You should apply only the __EGWS_BSE_BUTTONS_IN_HOVERED_CELL style.

Dear Support,

After comparing with your test application, I found I was missing a lot of stuff.., for the futrue users, this is what you need to add to the grid/tree objects:

    m_tree.BseModifyStyle(__EGWS_BSE_BUTTONS_IN_HOVERED_CELL, __EGWS_BSE_BUTTONS_PERSISTENT);
    m_tree.HoverEventsSet();
    m_tree.HoverHighlightSet( true, false, false, false, false, false );

Thanks for you rhelp.

Hello.

I made a ribbon node with __ECTN_TBB_SEPARATED_DROPDOWN and a big button.

The indication point of the line is displayed than a title in the upper part.

In this case I think that it should be displayed in the bottom of the title.

Hello.

I ask for your answer.

Hello.

I made a tool menu with __ECTN_TBB_SEPARATED_DROPDOWN.

The application does Assert of a menu in the following conditions when I touch it.

1, I choose tool menu.

2, I touch it in MenuA.

3, The application does Assert.

Thank you for reporting this issue. To fix it, please update the source code for the following method:

LRESULT CALLBACK CExtPopupMenuSite::_HookMouseProc(
      int nCode,      // hook code
      WPARAM wParam,  // message identifier
      LPARAM lParam   // mouse coordinates
      )
{
      __PROF_UIS_MANAGE_STATE;
      if( nCode != HC_ACTION )
            return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
MOUSEHOOKSTRUCT * lpMS = (MOUSEHOOKSTRUCT*)lParam;
      ASSERT( lpMS != NULL );
      if( CExtPopupMenuWnd::TEAROFFNOTIFICATON::g_pCurrentTEAROFFNOTIFICATON != NULL )
      {
            switch( wParam )
            {
            case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
            {
                  CPoint pt( lpMS->pt );
                  if(   CExtPopupMenuWnd::TEAROFFNOTIFICATON::g_pCurrentTEAROFFNOTIFICATON->_OnMouseMove( (UINT)wParam, pt ) )
                        return 1;
            }
            break;
            case WM_MOUSEWHEEL:
            {
                  if(   CExtPopupMenuWnd::TEAROFFNOTIFICATON::g_pCurrentTEAROFFNOTIFICATON->_OnMouseWheel( wParam, lParam ) )
                        return 1;
            }
            break;
            case WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_NCMBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_RBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_MBUTTONDOWN:
            case WM_NCLBUTTONUP:
            case WM_NCRBUTTONUP:
            case WM_NCMBUTTONUP:
            case WM_LBUTTONUP:
            case WM_RBUTTONUP:
            case WM_MBUTTONUP:
            {
                  CPoint ptSrc( lpMS->pt );
                  if(   CExtPopupMenuWnd::TEAROFFNOTIFICATON::g_pCurrentTEAROFFNOTIFICATON->_OnMouseClick( (UINT)wParam, ptSrc ) )
                        return 1;
            }
            break;
            }
      }
      if( nCode == HC_ACTION && (! g_DefPopupMenuSite.IsEmpty() ) && (! g_DefPopupMenuSite.IsShutdownMode() ) )
      {
            CExtPopupMenuWnd * pWndCapture = g_DefPopupMenuSite.GetCapture();
            if( pWndCapture != NULL && ::IsWindow( pWndCapture->GetSafeHwnd() ) )
            {
                  ASSERT_VALID( pWndCapture );
                  switch( wParam )
                  {
                  case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
                  {
                        CPoint pt( lpMS->pt );
                        pWndCapture->ScreenToClient( &pt );
                        bool bNoEat = false;
                        if(   pWndCapture->_OnMouseMove( (UINT)wParam, pt, bNoEat ) )
                        {
                              HWND hWnd = ::WindowFromPoint( lpMS->pt );
                              if( hWnd != NULL && ::GetWindowThreadProcessId( hWnd, NULL ) == ::GetCurrentThreadId() )
                              {
                                    INT nHT = (INT)::SendMessage( hWnd, WM_NCHITTEST, 0L, MAKELPARAM(lpMS->pt.x,lpMS->pt.y) );
                                    INT nMM = WM_MOUSEMOVE;
                                    if( nHT != HTCLIENT && nHT != HTMINBUTTON && nHT != HTMAXBUTTON
                                          && nHT != HTHELP && nHT != HTCLOSE && nHT != HTNOWHERE
                                          )
                                          nMM = WM_NCMOUSEMOVE;
                                    else
                                          nHT = HTCLIENT;
                                    ::SendMessage( hWnd, WM_SETCURSOR, (WPARAM)hWnd, MAKELPARAM(nHT,nMM) );
                              }
                              return 1;
                        }
                        if( bNoEat )
                              return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
                  }
                  break;
                  case WM_MOUSEWHEEL:
                  {
                        bool bNoEat = false;
                        if(   pWndCapture->_OnMouseWheel( wParam, lParam, bNoEat ) )
                              return 1;
                        if( bNoEat )
                              return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
                        return 1;
                  }
                  break;
                  case WM_NCLBUTTONDBLCLK:
                  case WM_NCRBUTTONDBLCLK:
                  case WM_NCMBUTTONDBLCLK:
                  case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK:
                  case WM_RBUTTONDBLCLK:
                  case WM_MBUTTONDBLCLK:
                        CExtBarButton::g_pTrackingMenuTBB = NULL;
                        // continue ...
                  case WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_NCMBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_RBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_MBUTTONDOWN:
                  case WM_NCLBUTTONUP:
                  case WM_NCRBUTTONUP:
                  case WM_NCMBUTTONUP:
                  case WM_LBUTTONUP:
                  case WM_RBUTTONUP:
                  case WM_MBUTTONUP:
                  {
                        HWND hWndFromPoint = WindowFromPoint( lpMS->pt );
                        if( hWndFromPoint != NULL )
                        {
                              LRESULT nHT = ::SendMessage( hWndFromPoint, WM_NCHITTEST, 0L, MAKELPARAM( lpMS->pt.x, lpMS->pt.y ) );
                              if(         ( nHT == HTSYSMENU || nHT == HTCAPTION )
                                    &&    wParam != WM_NCLBUTTONUP
                                    &&    ( ! g_PaintManager.m_DWM.IsCompositionEnabled() )
                                    )
                              {
                                    CWnd * pWndFromPointPermanent = CWnd::FromHandlePermanent( hWndFromPoint );
                                    if(         pWndFromPointPermanent == NULL
                                          ||    (! pWndFromPointPermanent->IsKindOf( RUNTIME_CLASS(CMiniFrameWnd) ) )
                                          )
                                    {
                                          pWndCapture->TrackFlagsSet( pWndCapture->TrackFlagsGet() | TPMX_NO_FADE_OUT_ANIMATION );
                                          CExtToolControlBar::_CloseTrackingMenus();
                                          CExtPopupMenuWnd::CancelMenuTracking();
                                          return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
                                    }
                              }
                        }
                        CPoint ptSrc( lpMS->pt );
                        pWndCapture->ScreenToClient( &ptSrc );
                        bool bNoEat = false;
                        HWND hWndCapture = pWndCapture->GetSafeHwnd();
                        ASSERT( hWndCapture != NULL && ::IsWindow(hWndCapture) );
                        if(   pWndCapture->_OnMouseClick( (UINT)wParam, ptSrc, bNoEat ) )
                              return 1;
                        if( bNoEat )
                              return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
                        if( ! (::IsWindow(hWndCapture)) )
                              return 1;
                        CPoint pt( lpMS->pt );
                        HWND hWndPT = ::WindowFromPoint( pt );
                        if( hWndPT != NULL )
                        {
                              CWnd * pWndPermanentPT = CWnd::FromHandlePermanent( hWndPT );
                              CExtPopupMenuWnd * pPopup = pWndCapture;
                              for( ; pPopup != NULL; pPopup = pPopup->m_pWndParentMenu )
                              {
                                    CPoint ptClient( pt );
                                    pPopup->ScreenToClient( &ptClient );
                                    if( pPopup->_PtInWndArea(ptClient) )
                                          return 1;
                                    CExtPopupMenuTipWnd & _tipWnd = pPopup->GetTip();
                                    HWND hWndTest = _tipWnd.GetSafeHwnd();
                                    if( hWndTest != NULL )
                                    {
                                          if( hWndTest == hWndPT || ::IsChild( hWndTest, hWndPT ) )
                                                return 1;
                                    }
                                    if(         pWndPermanentPT != NULL
                                          &&    ::IsChild( pPopup->m_hWnd, hWndPT )
                                          &&    pWndPermanentPT->IsKindOf( RUNTIME_CLASS(CScrollBar) )
                                          )
                                          return 1;
                              }
                        }
                        CExtPopupMenuWnd * pPopup = CExtPopupMenuSite::g_DefPopupMenuSite.GetInstance();
                        if( pPopup != NULL )
                        {
                              ASSERT_VALID( pPopup );
                              ASSERT( ::IsWindow(pPopup->GetSafeHwnd()) );
                              pPopup->_CancelingSet();
                              pPopup->_OnCancelMode();
                              bool bEatEvent = false;
                              if( wParam != WM_LBUTTONDOWN && wParam != WM_RBUTTONDOWN && wParam != WM_MBUTTONDOWN )
                                    bEatEvent = true;
                              if( ! bEatEvent )
                              {
                                    if( ! ::IsWindow( hWndPT ) )
                                          bEatEvent = true;
                              }
                              if( bEatEvent )
                              {
                                    if( CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_bEatNcAreaClicks )
                                          return 1;
                              }
                        }
                  }
                  break;
                  }
            }
            else
                  return 1;
      }
      return ::CallNextHookEx( g_DefPopupMenuSite.m_hMouseHook, nCode, wParam, lParam );
}

Hello.

I ask for your answer.

How to reproduce this issue in our RibbonBar sample project? We suspect this issue depends on very specific menu initialization steps.

How can I set the background color of button cells in grids?

Thanks, Dave

Primary monitor is correct work.

But, the other monitor is incorrect.

Please refer to  " http://cid-9713ee4fadd1c95d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/%ea%b3%b5%ec%9a%a9/Prof-UIS/Movie080903|_001|_2645.wmv "

It looks like we fixed this issue. Thank you. Here is the source code update:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/CExtNCW-maximization-fix.zip

I would like to add a context menu for my tab container when the user right click on the tab control, and to know on which tab index he clicked.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Ron

This the simple dialog based project with the tab page container control created inside the main dialog window. It demonstrates how to handle right mouse clicks on the tab items of the tab control inside tab page container window. These right clicks can be optionally handled in the tab page container class, in the main dialog class (used as parent window of the tab page container window) or even in both classes including up and down left mouse button events. You can simply display context menu instead of message box displayed in our test project. The ::GetCursorPos() Win32 API should be used for retrieving mouse cursor position which is needed in parameters of the CExtPopupMenuWnd::TrackPopupMenu() method.

You can read about this in this thread.

Hi,

I added the following line to my CExtTabPageContainerWnd object so that it will have close buttons on all tabs:

m_tab.GetSafeTabWindow()->ModifyTabWndStyleEx(0, __ETWS_EX_CLOSE_ON_TABS);

This worked, and each tab have a close button, but clicking the close button does nothing...

Please fix, or give an alternative to activate this feature,

Thanks

Ron.

OK - thanks.

Hi,

I want to add a page at the end of a tab control, and to set a tooltip to it using PageTooltipTextSet.

The problem is that PageInsert does not return the index of the new added page, and none of the PageInsert function accept the tooltip string.

Can you please do one of the two:

1) Return the index of the page added instead of BOOL

or:

2) Add the tooltip parameter to the PageInsert function

Thanks,

Ron.

Hi,

I have a tree grid that if a cell is clicked I do operation X, and if the cell is double-clicked, I do operation Y.

The problem is that if I double click the cell, I first get a call to the function OnGbwAnalyzeCellMouseClickEvent with nRepCnt==1 and then another call with nRepCnt==2, so there is no way for me to handle this simple task.

Is there another way to distniguish between single & double click in grids?

Thanks,

Ron.

This is a common task. You should handle double-clicking as is. I.e. you should invoke your default double-clicking handling code directly from the OnGbwAnalyzeCellMouseClickEvent() method. The single click notification received by this method should be handled with a delay. So, if your method has received the single click event, then it should invoke the SetTimer( SOME_TIMER_ID, ::GetDoubleClickTime() + 1 , NULL ); code. Of course, you should handle the SOME_TIMER_ID timer event for handling single click event. Please do not forget to invoke the KillTimer( SOME_TIMER_ID ); code in the very beginning of both single and double click handling code.

Why is this so complicated? When you do the same for a normal control, you have two separate function that do not cross ON_WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK and ON_WM_LBUTTONDOWN/UP.