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Hi is there a way (I’m sure there is) to change the default color in the background.

I guess you use the AppWorkspace default color.

I want to change the color that is used an "empty" TabMdi -> I mean I don’t want to use the system color AppWorkspace.

What you propose changes the background color in the tab selector.

hi

as the title says..

Does GUI persistence manage CExtSplitterWnd sizes (width / height persistence of all child views) ?
If not, have you some ready-made code which does it ?

thx for the info !

Louis, you may try the SSplitter control found in CodeProject.com. It supports registry saving/loading and other features.

My application icon that should come when I press "ALT + TAB" has gone missing after integration with Prof-UIS. It shows only a default "White Rectangle" icon that shows for default ".exe" files. Can you tell me the reason and what needs to be done inorder to avoid this?

PLease reply ASAP.

Dear ProfUIS Support Team,

We want to use a dialog with the PaintManager of Office 2007, which can change in size and also change to fullscreen when necessary, but without using background style of CExtResizableDialog. Therefore we have used CExtNCW<CDialog>.

It works fine with the changes in size, but when changing to fullscreen always shows the header title and frameborder, despite being forced to be disabled.

If we use simple CDialog all works correctly, also in fullscreen, but we don?t see the Office 2007 style.

To switch CDialog to fullscreen we use:
CRect rc;
::GetWindowRect(::GetDesktopWindow(), &rc);
::SetWindowLong(m_hWnd, GWL_STYLE, 0);
::SetWindowPos(m_hWnd, wndTopMost, rc.left, rc.top, rc.Width(), rc.Height(), SWP_FRAMECHANGED|SWP_SHOWWINDOW);
RedrawWindow(NULL, NULL, RDW_INVALIDATE|RDW_UPDATENOW|RDW_ERASE|RDW_ERASENOW|RDW_NOFRAME);

Hi!

There’s a window layout problem when changing the paintmanager in a ribbon application. To reproduce: start the RibbonBar example, select the XP theme, exit the example, start it again, select an Office 2007 theme. As the result the window gets "double" top border and the window close/size buttons are not clickable. It doesn’t happen if the app initially starts with an Office 2007 theme.

Reproduced with 2.81 and 2.82beta

Thanks for the quick reply. Your fix works.

hi,

is there any sample for creating context menus on the fly (Without using any Resources)?

As simple as:
______
| Item1 | (Item1 was clicked)
| -------- |
| Item2 | (Item2 was clicked)
| Item3 | (Item3 was clicked)
|_____|


Thanks

RM

I have CView derived class that needs to be destroyed at the end shutdown of my application . Here is the destructor.

CSaIsPresentationView::~CSaIsPresentationView()
{
CView::PostNcDestroy();
    delete this;
}

But in debug mode, it does not give a clean shutdown and goes to a virtual hang, with the stack pointing at the destructor. multiple times.

Can you suggest a way out. Obviously this started to happen after integration with Prof-UIS

The Invalid Argument Exception problem is not the first problem. At least we are sure that delete this; cannot be invoked in the destructor of any class.

The issue is still not resolved. If I remove the "delete this", a CInvalid Arguement Exception" is thrown while closing my application.
Please reply urgently

You should remove both CView::PostNcDestroy and delete this from your destructor. So your destructor should be empty.

Dear Support,

I need to display a combo-box cell with each item in a defined color. When an item is selected, (In-Place is finished) the text displayed should also be in the color of the selected item.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Ron.

Please contact via email so we can provide you with a link to the latest source code.

Right now, I am using the theme "Office2007 R3 Obsidian" at my application.

But under this theme, CExtPropertyGridTipBar is not readable because its text is black and its background is very dark gray..

Can you give me some tips to change color of either text or background in CExtPropertyGridTipBar ?

Thanks.

Do Park

We changed the text color to white in the CExtPropertyGridTipBar control bar in the Office 2007 Black theme . Please update the following method

void CExtPropertyGridTipBar::DoPaint( CDC * pDC )
{
	ASSERT_VALID( this );
	ASSERT_VALID( pDC );
CExtPaintManager * pPM = PmBridge_GetPM();
CRect rcClient;
	GetClientRect( &rcClient );
CExtMemoryDC dc( pDC, &rcClient );
	if(		(! pPM->GetCb2DbTransparentMode( this ) )
		||	(! pPM->PaintDockerBkgnd(
				true,
				dc,
				this
				)
			)
		)
		dc.FillSolidRect(
			&rcClient,
			pPM->GetColor(
				CExtPaintManager::CLR_3DFACE_OUT
				)
			);
CRect rcDraw = rcClient;
	rcDraw.top += m_nSeparatorHeight;
	if(		rcDraw.left >= rcDraw.right
		||	rcDraw.top >= rcDraw.bottom
		)
		return;
	pPM->PaintResizableBarChildNcAreaRect(
		dc,
		rcDraw,
		this
		);
	rcDraw.DeflateRect( 5, 3 );
	if(		rcDraw.left >= rcDraw.right
		||	rcDraw.top >= rcDraw.bottom
		)
		return;
CExtSafeString str = PropertyNameGet();
	if( str.IsEmpty() )
		return;
int nOldBkMode = dc.SetBkMode( TRANSPARENT );

COLORREF clrText =
		pPM->QueryObjectTextColor(
			dc,
			true,
			false,
			false,
			false,
			(CObject*)this
			);
	if( clrText == COLORREF(-1L) )
		clrText =
			pPM->GetColor(
				COLOR_BTNTEXT,
				(CObject*)this
				);

COLORREF clrOldTextColor =
		dc.SetTextColor( clrText );
CFont * pOldFont =
		dc.SelectObject(
			&pPM->m_FontBold
			);
CRect rcMeasure( 0, 0, 0, 0 );
	dc.DrawText(
		LPCTSTR(str),
		str.GetLength(),
		&rcMeasure,
		DT_SINGLELINE|DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_END_ELLIPSIS|DT_CALCRECT
		);
	dc.DrawText(
		LPCTSTR(str),
		str.GetLength(),
		&rcDraw,
		DT_SINGLELINE|DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_END_ELLIPSIS
		);
	str = PropertyDescriptionGet();
	if( ! str.IsEmpty() )
	{
		rcDraw.top += rcMeasure.Height() + 3;
		if(		rcDraw.left < rcDraw.right
			&&	rcDraw.top < rcDraw.bottom
			)
		{
			dc.SelectObject( 
				&pPM->m_FontNormal
				);
			dc.DrawText(
				LPCTSTR(str),
				str.GetLength(),
				&rcDraw,
				DT_LEFT|DT_TOP|DT_WORDBREAK
				);
		}
	} // if( ! str.IsEmpty() )
	dc.SelectObject( pOldFont );
	dc.SetTextColor( clrOldTextColor );
	dc.SetBkMode( nOldBkMode );
}

Hello.

http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071114/image01.jpg

I incorporated PopupMenu in ToolBar.
With g_nMsgPopupDrawItem, I displayed the selection.

http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071114/image02.jpg

However, "owner draw" does not work well when I become OneMenuLevel.
I do not understand the cause that does not work.

http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071114/SampleMuToolBar2.lzh

Thank you

Hi,

I need to set a consistent font in my entire app.

How can I change the default font : in the Title Bar, TabControl and Menu ?

Regards,

Pierre

You can use the CWnd::SetFont() method for setting a font for the tab control. Please read How to set the font for a control?

This is working fine for the Menu etc

What is the CFont object I need to update to reflect the changes in the tabcontrol and mainframe title bar (still using MS San Serif ) ?

Hello,

In some of your themes (e.g. VS2005, Office2003) disabled menu and toolbar icons look reddish. This applies to the current Prof-UIS 2.81 version and did not appear in Prof-UIS 2.53, for example. How can I make sure that disabled icons always appear grey, regardless of the selected theme?

Thanks for your help and best regards,
Thomas

We can check our code that colorizes disabled icons. Would you send us a couple of screenshots that show the differences between Office and Prof-UIS icons?

We tried to make disabled icons looking as close to those in Microsoft applications as possible. Disabled icons in Office 2003 / Studio 2005 themes are created by converting original normal icons to mono/grayscale color icons and colorizing them. The colorization has different colors on Windows 2000 and different Windows XP desktop themes. It’s not possible to change the colorization algorithm in Prof-UIS 2.81 and earlier versions, but it’s possible to do this in 2.82 which to be released soon. Prof-UIS 2.82 has new virtual methods in paint manager classes for generating disabled icons.

Hello.

I want to install a checkmark or a Rad button in this PopupMenu
Please teach a way.

http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071113/image01.jpg

It is not completely clear what you want to show us on this screenshot but we can say that the checked (radio) state of the menu items is based on MFC’s command updating mechanism.

So to check/uncheck a menu item, you should add a command updating method for the command associated with the menu item to your window that is the target of the popup menu commands. This method can be generated by the Visual Studio automatically.

Here is the method declaration:

    afx_msg void OnUpdateMyCmd(CCmdUI* pCmdUI);

Here is the message map entry:

    ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI(ID_MY_CMD, OnUpdateMyCmd)

Here is the method body:

 void CMainFrame::OnUpdateMyCmd(CCmdUI* pCmdUI) 
{
    pCmdUI->SetCheck( 1 ); // check
    or
    pCmdUI->SetCheck( 0 ); // uncheck
}

We are sorry but it is not completely unclear what you mean. Would you rephrase your question or provide some screenshot?

Hi,

If we try to add button which is under dropdown menu in quick access bar then we can’t see that icon in quick access launch bar. This problem exists in ribbonbar.exe as well.

Try to add noborder or all border button from broder group under paragraph group under hometab into quick access bar. That button will not appear in quick access launch bar.

Hello, I have a problem with the UIstate. We have a dialog that gets created at Oncreate in Mainfrm and it has a CExtGridWnd in it. We hide this until the user calls it up. The problem is that if it doesn’t get viewed it breaks all uistate files when trying to load them to change the GUI. If you view the dialog it doesn’t break the UIstate and you can load the state files, but if you don’t we get a break at DWORD rtPageStates = 0;
ar >> rtPageStates; in function:
void CMainFrame::DoLoadBarStateFromFile()
{
// begin prompting user
CFileDialog dlg(
        TRUE,
        _T("UI state"),
        _T(".\\Default.UI state"),
        OFN_ENABLESIZING|OFN_EXPLORER
            |OFN_LONGNAMES|OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST|OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST
            |OFN_NOCHANGEDIR|OFN_NODEREFERENCELINKS
            ,
        _T("UI state files (*.UI state)|*.UI state|All files (*.*)|*.*||"),
        this
        );
    dlg.m_ofn.lpstrTitle = _T("Open UI state from file");
    if( dlg.DoModal() != IDOK )
        return;
    ASSERT( dlg.m_ofn.lpstrFile != NULL );
// end prompting user

databasecreate = false;
RemoveExtControlBar( & m_DatabaseResizable);
RecalcLayout();

    try
    {
        CFile _file(
            dlg.m_ofn.lpstrFile, /// specify exact file path instead
            CFile::modeRead|CFile::shareExclusive
            );
        CArchive ar( &_file, CArchive::load);

        CWinApp * pApp = ::AfxGetApp();
        ASSERT( pApp != NULL );
        ASSERT( pApp->m_pszRegistryKey != NULL );
        ASSERT( pApp->m_pszRegistryKey[0] != _T(’\0’) );
        ASSERT( pApp->m_pszProfileName != NULL );
        ASSERT( pApp->m_pszProfileName[0] != _T(’\0’) );

        ShowWindow( SW_HIDE );
        VERIFY(
            CExtControlBar::ProfileBarStateSerialize(
                ar,
                this,
                &m_dataFrameWP
                )
            );
        VERIFY(
            g_CmdManager->SerializeState(
                pApp->m_pszProfileName,
                ar
                )
            );
//here
DWORD rtPageStates = 0;
ar >> rtPageStates;
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageVisibleSet( 0, ( rtPageStates & 0x00000001 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageVisibleSet( 1, ( rtPageStates & 0x00000002 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageVisibleSet( 2, ( rtPageStates & 0x00000004 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageVisibleSet( 3, ( rtPageStates & 0x00000008 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageVisibleSet( 4, ( rtPageStates & 0x00000016 ) ? true : false );
//to here
DWORD fcPageStates = 0;
ar >> fcPageStates;
m_wndFlatTabPageFuture.PageVisibleSet( 0, ( fcPageStates & 0x00000001 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageFuture.PageVisibleSet( 1, ( fcPageStates & 0x00000002 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageFuture.PageVisibleSet( 2, ( fcPageStates & 0x00000004 ) ? true : false );


DWORD iwPageStates = 0;
ar >> iwPageStates;
m_wndFlatTabPageInfoBox.PageVisibleSet( 0, ( iwPageStates & 0x00000001 ) ? true : false );
m_wndFlatTabPageInfoBox.PageVisibleSet( 1, ( iwPageStates & 0x00000002 ) ? true : false );


const int nSel = 0;
m_wndFlatTabPageRealTime.PageSelectionSet( nSel );
m_wndFlatTabPageFuture.PageSelectionSet( nSel );
m_wndFlatTabPageInfoBox.PageSelectionSet( nSel );

        ActivateFrame( SW_SHOW );
return;
    } // try
    catch( CException * pXept )
    {
        CString sErrorDescription;
        VERIFY(
            pXept->GetErrorMessage(
                sErrorDescription.GetBuffer(8192), 8192
                )
            );
        sErrorDescription.ReleaseBuffer();
        ASSERT( !sErrorDescription.IsEmpty() );
        pXept->Delete();
        ActivateFrame( SW_SHOW );
        LPCTSTR display;
        display = "New dialogs are now available in workspace. Please resave workspace.";
        MessageBox(display,
            _T("Update Workspace"),
            MB_OK
            );
    } // catch( CException * pXept )
    catch( ... )
    {
        ActivateFrame( SW_SHOW );
        MessageBox(
            _T("Unknown exception caught"),
            _T("State load failed"),
            MB_ICONERROR
            );
    } // catch( ... )
return;
}
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Courtney

I have a check box on the ribbon bar which when user click on this check box, my property bar (CExtControlBar type) will display. When the property bar hides itself (user clicks its "X" button or user clicks pin button and the bar is hiding after some amount of time), I want to uncheck the check box. And when the property box appears (user clicks the check box, or user clicks the property bar’s tab), I want to check this check box. How can I do that?

To be simple, how to response on ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI of my check box, and the set value of the check box is depend on show/hide status of CExtControlBar?

Throws an ASSERT and does not clear cell as expected. I have sent a modified version of ReportGrid demo showing the problem. Please recommend a fix.

Thanks, Dave

Hello.

I want to display all Popup Menu.
http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071112/image02.jpg

<< is unnecessary.

Hello.

I want to use CExtGridCellComboBox as an independent part.
http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20071112/image01.jpg

We added this feature to our TO-DO list but we cannot say when it will be ready because the list is filled with a lot of other tasks. If you need this feature right away, we can implement this as a custom project and it will be available within one day. In the later case, please contact Alex Cooper at info@prof-uis.com.

Unfortunately this is not supported. The CExtGridCellComboBox can be used only inside the grid. We can add such a feature to our TO-DO list and implement some time later. If you need it right away, we can implement this as a custom project.

Hi,

I have a problem with running the Integration Wizard. It does not want to perform the initial registration into Visual Studio.
I’ve tried to enter the C++ directories myself, but integrating the app wizard in VS still fails. Here are some details:

Vista x64
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 with Vista patch

report text:
/*******************************************************************/
    REPORT FILE [11-11-2007, 13:30]
/*******************************************************************/

Install Prof-UIS Application Wizard to Visual Studio - Failed.

Thanks,
Antoan Christov

We have just tested Prof-UIS Integration Wizard on Vista x64 with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 with Vista patch installed. It worked without any problems:

/*******************************************************************/
	REPORT FILE [11-13-2007, 11:11]
/*******************************************************************/

Install Prof-UIS Application Wizard to Visual Studio - Succeeded.

So the problem may hide somewhere on your side. Please note you can install the Application Wizard manually. Just unpack the ProfUISAppWizard folder from C:\Program Files\FOSS Software Inc\Prof-UIS\Support\profuisappwizard_2005.zip to the wizards folder

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCWizards\

Besides, copy the following files to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcprojects\ folder:

ProfUISAppWizard.ico
ProfUISAppWizard.vsdir
ProfUISAppWizard.vsz

After restarting Visual Studio, you should see the Prof-UIS Application Wizard.