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I want to disable or enable a command in the command manger. I do this by e.g.
...
CExtCmdItem* pCmdItem;
CString sProfile = g_CmdManager->ProfileNameFromWnd( this->GetSafeHwnd());
pCmdItem = g_CmdManager->CmdGetPtr(sProfile, ID_PROJECT_NEW);
pCmdItem->StateEnable(false);
...
Now I would like to have the entries in the menu bar which correspond to the commands to be enabled/disabled as well when the user opens the menu.

What I am doing right now is to ’walk’ through the menu items in CMainFrame::OnExtMenuPrepare, check the state of the command and enable/disable the coressponding popup item (see below).
....
INT nEntries = pPopup->ItemGetCount();
CExtCmdItem* pCmdItem;
CString sProfile = g_CmdManager->ProfileNameFromWnd( this->GetSafeHwnd());
for (INT i = 0; i < nEntries; i++)
{
    UINT nCmdID = pPopup->ItemGetCmdID(i);
    if (nCmdID != CExtPopupMenuWnd::TYPE_POPUP &&
                nCmdID != CExtPopupMenuWnd::TYPE_SEPARATOR)
    {
        pCmdItem = g_CmdManager->CmdGetPtr(sProfile,    nCmdID);
        ASSERT (pCmdItem != NULL);
        if (pCmdItem)
        {
            pPopup->ItemEnabledSet(i, pCmdItem->StateIsEnable());
        }
    }
}
...
This worked fine until I added the CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar to my CMainFrame. Now I get a NULL pointer for pCmdItem when I reach the first entry of the CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar menu. When it comes to the next entry the call to pPopup->ItemGetCmdID(i); fails with an illegal memory access exception.

At this point I think, that I do not understand the CommandManager correctly. Could you please clarify this and tell me how to make the enabling/disabling of commands and menu entries in the way it is meant to be done?

Thanks.
Torsten

OK, I think I got it know. I thought that the Command Manger would do this for me as he does it with e.g. the icons of the commands.
Thanks for your help.

Ok, thats the way I would do it for the theme switcher, but how is this done for the standard menu?

I thought that the command manager would handle the enable/disable state of the commands and also causes the display of the commands (in a menu or toolbar) to be accordingly enabled/disabled. Or is is the command manager just a container which maps id’s to icons, text, state, etc. ?

I think you should do this as you’d do it in a pure MFC application: using ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI entries and associated state updating methods for your commands. This would set the proper state of a command no matter whether it is in a toolbar or menu.

You should use a CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar-derived class in which the following method is implemented:

CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar::ThemeSwitcher_OnButtonUpdate()

Ok, thats the way I can access the commands from the CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar. But my primary question is: How can I get the enable state of a command synchronized to the state of the corresponding menu item?

Dear Sir./Madam.,

I would also like to append the theme list into the menu of my dialog-based application. Can you teach me how to achieve this goal?

Thanks!

With version 2.81, when I maximize the window and then restore it to normal size, the groups in the ribbon bar are misplaced.

Here are two screenshots:
http://www.zumbo.ch/upload/Vista.jpg
http://www.zumbo.ch/upload/XP.jpg

The bug seems to depend on the screen resolution. Using your RibbonBar-m.exe sample application, I could reproduce the bug on several computers with 1920x1200 resolution, but it works fine with 1280x1024 resolution.

Dear Support Team,

I have a problem porting my ProfUIS application from VS2003 to VS2005. I am able to compile and link the Project in VS2005. When I start it, I get an Assert error within the call to g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager(RUNTIME_CLASS( CExtPaintManagerOffice2007_R2_Obsidian );

This also happens when running an empty project created with the ProfUIS Wizard (all values as default).

The Assert message is as follows:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debug Assertion Failed:

Program: d:\SourceCode\Mainline\Client\Program\SenseID.exe
File: f:\vs70builds\3077\vc\MFCATL\ship\atlmfc\include\afxwin1.inl
Line: 26
...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are two things which confuse me: first I do not have a drive f: on my computer. Second is the directory vs70builds which lets me think that vs2005 is using sources from vs2003.

Do you have any ideas on it?

Thanks in advance

Torsten

As I sad above, the problem was the wrong value of the PATH variable. Now also the "empty project created with the ProfUIS Wizard" works fine.

Torsten

Could you send us this "empty project created with the ProfUIS Wizard" to the support mail box at this web site?

Dear Support Team,

I found the problem and was able to fix it: The PATH environment variable included the "...FOSS Software Inc\Prof-UIS\Bin_7110\" directory which caused the application to load the vs2003 profuis dll. Changing the variable to "...FOSS Software Inc\Prof-UIS\Bin_800\" solves the problem.

This means on the other hand, that it is not possible to use a VS2003 and VS2005 simultaneously.

Torsten

Dear Sir./Madam.,

Is there any way to change the color of the border of a dialog?

Thanks!

The text color of a disabled combo is different to that of a disabled edit control, is there a reason for this as on my monitor the colors chosen for the combo lack contrast from the background so it is very hard to see the text.

We are using the Obsidian theme.

Is there a way to change the defaults in the theme without having to change every Combo control we define?

Thanks

The Combo’s are drop down lists, please note that the disabled edit controls also have the same problem.

I took the updated version of CExtComboBox and forced all text colors to black still with no result. So the only solution we could come up with is to override the background color used in the Scheme (m_clrFillHint).

    //m_clrFillHint = RGB(173,174,189);        
    m_clrFillHint = RGB(203,204,219); // To Improve contrast of text when in Windows XP style

This is not a pretty solution as I am sure you will agree so I would still prefer to change the text color if at all possible, without having to put our own OnPaint handler in for the combo and edit control.

Any ideas??

Unfortunately the text in disabled controls is always gray. Though we process to the CTLCOLOR_STATIC message to change the text color, this does not work unless the control is enabled. There are two workarounds.

1. If you have a Drop Down combo box, you can retrieve a handle of the inner edit control and change it style to READONLY.

2. If your combo box is Drop List, you can make it owner-drawn so the text will be drawn with a correct color regardless if the combo box is enabled or not. NOTE Here is the updated version of CExtComboBox in which some issues are fixed.

Just tried setting the text color to override the Combo Box with the following line to prove I can:

pWnd->SetTextColor(RGB(0,255,0);

but it only works for enabled controls the text color is not changed for disabled ones!

We now are running V2.82

Thanks again for your help

This was indeed down to the PC settings, my PC was set to Windows XP style and the other PC was set to Windows Classic Style. This changed the system colors. I would have thought that when the background color was changed to suit the theme for the disabled controls the text color would also be changed to guarantee the text is visible.

I am now left thinking that we have to override the disabled text color for all controls to make sure our customers don’t complain, as we cannot tell them to change their PC’s style (to a non default setting) to get over this.

Is this something that you can look at again?

The problem can be with different settings of the system appearance. Check the themes installed on these PC’s, advanced appearance settings, etc. Anyway you can set a particular text color and a background color yourself.

Hi,

I’m trying reduce the size of the prof-uis dll used in my project by uncommenting the #define’s in the profuis.h file and I came across a couple of errors in the prof-uis source code - when I disable the ribbon (__EXT_MFC_NO_RIBBON_BAR), I got errors first in ExtPaintManager that CExtComboBox was missing, so I added this include to the file. Then, I got a link error and it turns out that the following line around line count 5025:
#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_RIBBON_BAR)

removes the definition for the method CExtCmdIcon * CExtBarCheckBoxButton::GetIconPtr() which triggers the link error.

I’ll let you know if I find others.

Thanks,

Adrian

You can also reduce the library size by excluding Office2007 paint managers. To do this, just comment out the following line in the Prof-UIS\Include\Resources\resource.rc resource file:

#include "Res2007\\Res2007.rc"

#define __EXT_MFC_NO_RESOURCES_xxxxxxx

Thanks - removing resources made a big difference in the final size.

One issue though - I couldn’t remvoe the line #include "Res2007\\Res2007.rc" as I use the "luna blue" theme. So what I did in res2007.rc I commented all lines referring to resources other than luna blue, and that worked well. What I would suggest though to make this easier is to provde #define _EXT... for 2007 resources with finer granularity - so we can disable various themes individually.

BTW, the initial size of the dll (release) was over 8 Mb and now is about 2.5 Mb.

After all the changes I made in the prof-uis source, I’m now reluctant to install the new 2.81 version. Fixing the issues I mentioned in your source code would make it much easier for me (and probably others) to upgrade to a new release.

Thanks,

Adrian

Even after removing a lot of the functionality, the ProfUIS280m-RDE.dll is still around 6Mb. Is there anything else I can do to make even smaller?

Would linking with the static version of prof-uis make it smaller yet? I’m thinking that the linker will remove all unused code. My application uses a number of basic features of prof-uis, so a lot of the advanced stuff is not needed. But because my main window is in a dll, I know there could be some runtime issues when linking with the static version of prof-uis and dynamic version of MFC.

Adrian

Another problem:
I tried to remove the dynamic bar site, but that caused an error in the NC Frame classes (there is a specialized template

template < >
class CExtNCW < CExtDynamicMDIChildWnd >
    : public CExtDynamicMDIChildWnd
    , public CExtNcFrameImpl

that causes the error. IMO, this should be ifdef-ed, as I may want to use the NC classes (which is my case), but without support for dunamic bars.

Adrian

Dear Sir./Madam.,

How to add tooltips to all tabs in a tooltab container?

Thanks!

Dear Support,

I have a grid derived class which i initialize to have one header row on the left side, and one at the top.
I would like to access the top-left cell for writing something in it. I understand that this is not supported - Can you please add this to your To Do list, or give me some solution to this problem, as this cell must look and conform with all other cells in the grid.

Thanks,
Ron.

This feature is implemented. Please download the updated source code from our ftp server.

This feature is under development and will be available within a week.

In fact, the corner areas in the CExtGridWnd class and all the classes derived from it can contain grid cells and even the data provider supports grid cells in these areas, but we did not implement painting, measuring and printing for grid cells in these areas. It’s not a problem to implement this feature.

Dear Support,

Can you please explain what you mean my that?
How do I create it?
How do I access it?

Thanks,
Ron.

The CExtGridWnd::GridCellGet() virtual method has the INT nColType and INT nRowType parameters. Previously only one of them can have a non-zero value. Now both of them can be non-zero so you can access corner cells.

How do I get the version with this fix?

As a subscriber, you can always download the latest source code from our ftp server. You can request the details at support@prof-uis.com.

Send an e-mail from your registered e-mail address to support@prof-uis.com , requesting access to the ftp server. They’ll tell you the details in the answer email.

The grid control does not display cell objects in the corners but you can repaint them if you need to display some information there. You should override the CExtGridBaseWnd::OnGbwEraseArea() virtual method like as follows:

void CYourGridWnd::OnGbwEraseArea(
    CDC & dc,
    const RECT & rcArea,
    DWORD dwAreaFlags
    ) const
{
    ASSERT_VALID( this );
    ASSERT( dc.GetSafeHdc() != NULL );
COLORREF clrDebugFill = COLORREF( -1L );
    switch( dwAreaFlags )
    {
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_TOP:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 255, 128, 128 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_BOTTOM:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 128, 255, 128 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_LEFT:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 128, 128, 255 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_RIGHT:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 128, 255, 255 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_LEFT|__EGBWA_OUTER_TOP:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 255, 128, 255 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_LEFT|__EGBWA_OUTER_BOTTOM:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 255, 255, 128 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_RIGHT|__EGBWA_OUTER_TOP:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 255, 255, 128 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_OUTER_CELLS|__EGBWA_OUTER_RIGHT|__EGBWA_OUTER_BOTTOM:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 128, 128, 128 );
    break;
    case __EGBWA_INNER_CELLS:
        clrDebugFill = RGB( 255, 255, 224 );
    break;
    }
    if( clrDebugFill != COLORREF( -1L ) )
        dc.FillSolidRect( &rcArea, clrDebugFill );
}

Dear Support,

I understand that I can draw there manually but I think that this cell should be a normal cell, so that we won’t have to work with a DC each time we want to put something in this location.
In other grids I worked in the past this was a normal cell, and I think it should be here as well.

Please let me know what you think about this issue.

Regards,
Ron.

Hi is there a way to limit the number of theme that we display in the CExtThemeSwitcherToolControlBar ?

We need to provide some way to change the ui theme to our user, but for example, we don’t plan to use the Office 2000 theme that looks outdated now.

Dear Support,

I have a dialog application with controls and group-boxes.

I have a control that I create in my code (not in the resource editor).
When I place it inside a group-box it flickers.
In the FAQ you solve this problem with changing the tab order, but this control does not exist in the resource editor, because it is only created at run time.

Regards,
Ron.

You can change the tab order programmatically. Since version 2.80 there is a SubclassChildControls() global function which can be used for subclassing standard controls with Prof-UIS controls. This function also eliminates the problem of a wrong tab order for the controls used in CExtGroupBox. You can fix only the tab order using the following method

void FixGroupBoxesOrder( HWND hWndParent ) 
{ 
            if(                     hWndParent == NULL 
                        ||           (!::IsWindow( hWndParent )) 
                        ) 
                        return;  
  
            HWND hWnd = ::GetWindow( hWndParent, GW_CHILD ); 
            HWND hWndLast = NULL; 
            
            CDWordArray arrGroupBoxes; 
            while( hWnd != NULL )  
            { 
                        TCHAR szCompare[512] = _T(""); 
                        ::GetClassName( 
                                    hWnd, 
                                    szCompare, 
                                    sizeof( szCompare ) / sizeof( szCompare[0] ) 
                                    ); 
                        if( _tcsicmp( szCompare, _T("BUTTON") ) == 0 ) 
                        { 
                                    #ifdef BS_TYPEMASK 
                                                ASSERT( BS_TYPEMASK == 0x0000000FL ); 
                                    #endif 
                                                DWORD dwWndStyle = (DWORD)::GetWindowLong( hWnd, GWL_STYLE ); 
                                                if( ( dwWndStyle & 0x0000000FL ) == BS_GROUPBOX ) 
                                                            arrGroupBoxes.Add( DWORD( hWnd ) ); 
                        } 
                        hWndLast = hWnd; 
                        hWnd = ::GetWindow( hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT );  
            } 
  
            if(                     hWndLast != NULL 
                        &&        arrGroupBoxes.GetSize() > 0 
                        ) 
            { 
                        // move all the group boxes to the back by changing the tab order at runtime 
                        HWND hWndPrev = hWndLast; 
                        while( arrGroupBoxes.GetSize() > 0 ) 
                        { 
                                    HWND hWnd = (HWND) arrGroupBoxes.GetAt( 0 ); 
                                    if(                     hWnd != NULL 
                                                &&        ::IsWindow( hWnd ) 
                                                ) 
                                    { 
                                                ::SetWindowPos( 
                                                            hWnd, 
                                                            hWndPrev, 
                                                            0,0, 
                                                            0,0, 
                                                            SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE 
                                                            ); 
                                                hWndPrev = hWnd; 
                                    } 
                                    arrGroupBoxes.RemoveAt( 0 ); 
                        } 
            } 
} 

Dear Sir./Madam.,

How to add an icon to each menu item without a toolbar?

Thanks!

Dear Sir./Madam.,

I play with the HelpNotes sample. I replace the .rtf with some of my own. Sometimes I found out that the first line in the .rtf is divided into two lines when being displayed. But I don’t want this. Do you know why this would happen? How to correct it?

Thanks!

I would like to be able to change grid cells with the cursor keys, while editing a cell, but not have the new cell go in to edit mode. I’ve tried using __EGWS_BSE_WALK, which when set turns on edit mode in the new cell and when not set disables movement with the cursor keys. How do I enable moving cells with the cursor keys, but not re-enable edit mode?

I am trying to capture the VK_DELETE message but the CExtGridInplaceEdit message loop doesn’t let it pass through. Is there a way to do so?

Thanks, that works

Yes we agree with you that this is our fault. You can fix this problem by updating the following method and recompiling the library. Note this fix will be available in Prof-UIS 2.81

bool CExtGridWnd::OnGbwBeginEdit(
	LONG nVisibleColNo,
	LONG nVisibleRowNo,
	LONG nColNo,
	LONG nRowNo,
	INT nColType,
	INT nRowType,
	const RECT & rcCellExtra,
	const RECT & rcCell,
	const RECT & rcInplaceControl,
	bool bContinueMsgLoop, // = true
	__EXT_MFC_SAFE_LPCTSTR strStartEditText // = NULL
	)
{
	ASSERT_VALID( this );
	if(	CExtGridBaseWnd::OnGbwBeginEdit(
			nVisibleColNo,
			nVisibleRowNo,
			nColNo,
			nRowNo,
			nColType,
			nRowType,
			rcCellExtra,
			rcCell,
			rcInplaceControl,
			bContinueMsgLoop,
			strStartEditText
			)
		)
		return true;

	if(	CExtPopupMenuWnd::IsMenuTracking() )
		CExtPopupMenuWnd::CancelMenuTracking();
	CWnd::CancelToolTips();

//DWORD dwBseStyle = BseGetStyle();
//	if( nColType < 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_L) == 0L )
//		return false;
//	else if( nColType > 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_R) == 0L )
//		return false;
//	else if( nColType == 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_INNER) == 0L )
//		return false;
//	else if( nRowType < 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_T) == 0L )
//		return false;
//	else if( nRowType > 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_B) == 0L )
//		return false;
//	else if( nRowType == 0 && (dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_INNER) == 0L )
//		return false;

DWORD dwBseStyle = BseGetStyle();
	if(			nColType < 0
		&&		(dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_L) == 0L
		)
		return false;
	else if(	nColType > 0
		&&		(dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_R) == 0L
		)
		return false;
	else if(	nRowType < 0
		&&		(dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_T) == 0L
		)
		return false;
	else if(	nRowType > 0
		&&		(dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_OUTER_B) == 0L
		)
		return false;
	else if(	nColType == 0
		&&		nRowType == 0
		&&		(dwBseStyle&__EGWS_BSE_EDIT_CELLS_INNER) == 0L
		)
		return false;

static CExtGridCell * g_pEditCell = NULL;
bool bDoMsgLoop = true;
	if( m_hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
	{
		if( ! bContinueMsgLoop )
			return false;
		HWND hWndInplaceControl = m_hWndInplaceControl;
		m_hWndInplaceControl = NULL;
		if( hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
		{
			bDoMsgLoop = false;
			if( ::IsWindow(hWndInplaceControl) )
				::DestroyWindow( hWndInplaceControl );
		} // if( hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
	} // if( m_hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
CRect rcActivate( rcInplaceControl );
	if(		rcActivate.left >= rcActivate.right
		||	rcActivate.top >= rcActivate.bottom
		)
	{ // if invalid rect - recalc it
		if(	! GridCellRectsGet(
				nColNo,
				nRowNo,
				nColType,
				nRowType,
				NULL,
				NULL,
				NULL,
				&rcActivate // pRectTextArea
				)
			)
		{
			g_pEditCell = NULL;
			return false;
		}
		if( rcActivate.IsRectEmpty() )
		{
			g_pEditCell = NULL;
			return false;
		}
	} // if invalid rect - recalc it
//CClientDC dc( this );
//	dc.FillSolidRect( &rcActivate, RGB(255,0,0) );
//CString strMsg;
//strMsg.Format( _T("CExtGridWnd::OnGbwBeginEdit(%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld,%d,%d)"),nVisibleColNo,nVisibleRowNo,nColNo,nRowNo,nColType,nRowType);
//::AfxMessageBox( strMsg, MB_ICONINFORMATION );
CExtGridCell * pCellToEdit =
		GridCellGet(
			nColNo,
			nRowNo,
			nColType,
			nRowType
			);
	if( pCellToEdit == NULL )
		return false;
	ASSERT_VALID( pCellToEdit );
	ASSERT( pCellToEdit->IsKindOf(RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtGridCell)) );
	ASSERT_VALID( pCellToEdit->DataProviderGet() );
	g_pEditCell = pCellToEdit;
	m_hWndInplaceControl =
		g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlCreate(
			*this,
			nVisibleColNo,
			nVisibleRowNo,
			nColNo,
			nRowNo,
			nColType,
			nRowType,
			rcCellExtra,
			rcCell,
			rcActivate,
			m_nHelperLastEditedColNo,
			m_nHelperLastEditedRowNo
			);
	if(		m_hWndInplaceControl == NULL
		||	( ! ::IsWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl ) )
		)
	{
		m_hWndInplaceControl = NULL;
		g_pEditCell = NULL;
		DWORD dwCellStyle = pCellToEdit->GetStyle();
		if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_CHK_MASK) == 0 )
		{
			if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_BUTTON_DROPDOWN) != 0 )
			{
				bool bEnabled = false;
				if( pCellToEdit->OnQueryButtonInfo(
						INT(CExtGridCell::__EBTT_DROPDOWN),
						&bEnabled
						)
					)
				{
					if( bEnabled )
					{
						pCellToEdit->OnButtonPressed(
							*this,
							INT(CExtGridCell::__EBTT_DROPDOWN),
							rcCellExtra,
							rcCell,
							nVisibleColNo,
							nVisibleRowNo,
							nColNo,
							nRowNo,
							nColType,
							nRowType
							);
						return true;
					} // if( bEnabled )
				}
			} // if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_BUTTON_DROPDOWN) != 0 )
// -2.63
// 			if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_BUTTON_ELLIPSIS) != 0 )
// 			{
// 				bool bEnabled = false;
// 				if( pCellToEdit->OnQueryButtonInfo(
// 						INT(CExtGridCell::__EBTT_ELLIPSIS),
// 						&bEnabled
// 						)
// 					)
// 				{
// 					if( bEnabled )
// 					{
// 						pCellToEdit->OnButtonPressed(
// 							*this,
// 							INT(CExtGridCell::__EBTT_ELLIPSIS),
// 							rcCellExtra,
// 							rcCell,
// 							nVisibleColNo,
// 							nVisibleRowNo,
// 							nColNo,
// 							nRowNo,
// 							nColType,
// 							nRowType
// 							);
// 						return true;
// 					} // if( bEnabled )
// 				}
// 			} // if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_BUTTON_ELLIPSIS) != 0 )
		} // if( (dwCellStyle&__EGCS_CHK_MASK) == 0 )
		return false;
	}
	m_nHelperLastEditedColNo = nColNo;
	m_nHelperLastEditedRowNo = nRowNo;
	if( ! bDoMsgLoop )
		return true;

CWinThread * pThread = ::AfxGetThread();
	ASSERT_VALID( pThread );

	if( strStartEditText != NULL )
	{
		bool bSetText = true;
		TCHAR strClassName[512];
		::GetClassName( m_hWndInplaceControl, strClassName, 512 );
		if( _tcslen( strClassName ) > 0 )
		{
			__EXT_MFC_STRLWR( strClassName, 512 );
			if(		_tcsstr( strClassName, _T("edit") ) != NULL
				||	_tcsstr( strClassName, _T("riched") ) != NULL
				||	_tcsstr( strClassName, _T("sysipaddress32") ) != NULL
				)
			{
				bSetText = false;
				HWND hWndInplaceControl = m_hWndInplaceControl;
				if( _tcsstr( strClassName, _T("sysipaddress32") ) != NULL )
				{
					for(	HWND hWnd = ::GetWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl, GW_CHILD ); 
							hWnd != NULL; 
							hWnd = ::GetWindow( hWnd, GW_HWNDNEXT )
						)
					{
						ASSERT( hWnd != NULL );
						ASSERT( ::IsWindow(hWnd) );
						if( ::GetFocus() == hWnd )
						{
							hWndInplaceControl = hWnd;
							break;
						}
					}
				}
 				::SendMessage( hWndInplaceControl, EM_SETSEL, WPARAM(0), LPARAM(-1) );
 				::SendMessage( hWndInplaceControl, EM_REPLACESEL, WPARAM(TRUE), LPARAM(strStartEditText) );
			}
		} // if( _tcslen( strClassName ) > 0 )
		if( bSetText )
			::SetWindowText( m_hWndInplaceControl, strStartEditText );
	} // if( strStartEditText != NULL )

HWND hWndGrid = m_hWnd;
bool bStopFlag = false;
	for(	MSG msg;
				m_hWndInplaceControl != NULL
			&&	::IsWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl )
			&&	::IsWindowVisible( m_hWndInplaceControl )
			&&	::IsWindow( hWndGrid )
			&&	(!bStopFlag)
			&&	(g_pEditCell != NULL)
			;
		)
	{ // in-place editor message loop
		if( ! ::PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE) )
		{
			if(		m_hWndInplaceControl == NULL
				||	( ! ::IsWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl ) )
				||	( ! ::IsWindow( hWndGrid ) )
				||	bStopFlag
				||	g_pEditCell == NULL
				)
				break;
			LONG nIdleCounter = 0L;
			for(	nIdleCounter = 0L;
					g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlIdle(
						m_hWndInplaceControl,
						*this,
						nIdleCounter
						);
					nIdleCounter ++
					)
			{
				ASSERT_VALID( g_pEditCell );
			}
			if( CExtGridWnd::g_bEnableOnIdleCalls )
			{
				for(	nIdleCounter = 0L;
						pThread->OnIdle(nIdleCounter);
						nIdleCounter ++
						);
			}
			::WaitMessage();
			continue;
		} // if( ! ::PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE) )

		switch( msg.message )
		{
		case WM_KILLFOCUS:
			if( msg.hwnd == m_hWndInplaceControl )
				bStopFlag = true;
		break;
		case WM_CANCELMODE:
		case WM_ACTIVATEAPP:
		case WM_SYSCOMMAND:
		case WM_SETTINGCHANGE:
		case WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE:
			bStopFlag = true;
		break;
		case WM_COMMAND:
			if(		(HIWORD(msg.wParam)) == 0
				||	(HIWORD(msg.wParam)) == 1
				)
				bStopFlag = true;
		break;
		case WM_CAPTURECHANGED:
			if( (HWND)msg.wParam != m_hWndInplaceControl )
				bStopFlag = true;
		break;

		case WM_LBUTTONUP:
		case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_RBUTTONUP:
		case WM_RBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_RBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_MBUTTONUP:
		case WM_MBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_MBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_NCLBUTTONUP:
		case WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_NCLBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_NCRBUTTONUP:
		case WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_NCRBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_NCMBUTTONUP:
		case WM_NCMBUTTONDOWN:
		case WM_NCMBUTTONDBLCLK:
		case WM_CONTEXTMENU:
			if(		msg.hwnd != m_hWndInplaceControl
				&&	(!::IsChild( m_hWndInplaceControl, msg.hwnd ))
				)
				bStopFlag = true;
		break;
		default:
//			if(	   msg.message == WM_SYSKEYDOWN
//				|| msg.message == WM_SYSKEYUP
//				|| msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN
//				|| msg.message == WM_KEYUP
//				)
//			{
//				bool bKeyUp =
//					( msg.message == WM_KEYUP || msg.message == WM_SYSKEYUP )
//						? true : false;
//				BOOL bCtrl = ::GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x80000000;
//				BOOL bShift = ::GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & 0x80000000;
//				//BOOL bAlt = HIWORD(msg.lParam) & KF_ALTDOWN;
//				TCHAR vkTCHAR = (TCHAR)msg.wParam;
//				if(			vkTCHAR == VK_MENU
//						&&	(!bCtrl) && (!bShift)
//						//&&	bKeyUp
//					)
//					bStopFlag = true;
//				//else if(	bAlt
//				//		&&	(	vkTCHAR == VK_SUBTRACT
//				//			||	vkTCHAR == VK_SPACE
//				//			)
//				//	)
//				//	bStopFlag = true;
//			}
			if(		( ! bStopFlag )
				&&	WM_KEYFIRST <= msg.message
				&&	msg.message <= WM_KEYLAST
				&&	(	msg.hwnd != m_hWndInplaceControl 
					||	(!::IsChild( m_hWndInplaceControl, msg.hwnd )) 
					)
				)
			{
				bool bAlt =
					( (::GetAsyncKeyState(VK_MENU)&0x8000) != 0 )
						? true : false;
				bool bCtrl =
					( (::GetAsyncKeyState(VK_CONTROL)&0x8000) != 0 )
						? true : false;
				bool bShift =
					( (::GetAsyncKeyState(VK_SHIFT)&0x8000) != 0 )
						? true : false;
				if( ! bAlt )
				{
					if(		bCtrl
						&&	(!bShift)
						&&	(	int(msg.wParam) == VK_INSERT
							||	int(msg.wParam) == int( _T(’C’) )
							)
						)
					{
						LRESULT lResult = 0L;
						g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
							lResult,
							msg.message,
							msg.wParam,
							msg.lParam,
							msg.hwnd,
							*this,
							nVisibleColNo,
							nVisibleRowNo,
							nColNo,
							nRowNo,
							nColType,
							nRowType,
							rcCellExtra,
							rcCell,
							rcInplaceControl
							);
						::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
						if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )
							::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, WM_COPY, 0, 0 );
						continue;
					} 
					if(		( bCtrl && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == int( _T(’V’) ) )
						||	( (!bCtrl) && bShift && int(msg.wParam) == VK_INSERT )
						)
					{
						LRESULT lResult = 0L;
						g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
							lResult,
							msg.message,
							msg.wParam,
							msg.lParam,
							msg.hwnd,
							*this,
							nVisibleColNo,
							nVisibleRowNo,
							nColNo,
							nRowNo,
							nColType,
							nRowType,
							rcCellExtra,
							rcCell,
							rcInplaceControl
							);
						::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
						if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )
							::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0, 0 );
						continue;
					} 
					if(		( bCtrl && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == int( _T(’X’) ) )
						||	( (!bCtrl) && bShift && int(msg.wParam) == VK_DELETE )
						)
					{
						LRESULT lResult = 0L;
						g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
							lResult,
							msg.message,
							msg.wParam,
							msg.lParam,
							msg.hwnd,
							*this,
							nVisibleColNo,
							nVisibleRowNo,
							nColNo,
							nRowNo,
							nColType,
							nRowType,
							rcCellExtra,
							rcCell,
							rcInplaceControl
							);
						::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
						if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )
						{
							if( ( g_pEditCell->GetStyle() & __EGCS_READ_ONLY ) == 0 )
								::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, WM_CUT, 0, 0 );
							else
								::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, WM_COPY, 0, 0 );
						}
						continue;
					} 
					if(	bCtrl && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == int( _T(’A’) ) ) 
					{
						LRESULT lResult = 0L;
						g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
							lResult,
							msg.message,
							msg.wParam,
							msg.lParam,
							msg.hwnd,
							*this,
							nVisibleColNo,
							nVisibleRowNo,
							nColNo,
							nRowNo,
							nColType,
							nRowType,
							rcCellExtra,
							rcCell,
							rcInplaceControl
							);
						::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
						if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )

							::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, EM_SETSEL, 0, -1 );
						continue;
					}
					if(	(!bCtrl) && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == VK_DELETE )
					{
						if( msg.message != WM_CHAR )
						{
							LRESULT lResult = 0L;
							g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
								lResult,
								msg.message,
								msg.wParam,
								msg.lParam,
								msg.hwnd,
								*this,
								nVisibleColNo,
								nVisibleRowNo,
								nColNo,
								nRowNo,
								nColType,
								nRowType,
								rcCellExtra,
								rcCell,
								rcInplaceControl
								);
							::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
							if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )
							{
								LPTSTR strEmpty = _T(""); 
								INT nSelStart = 0, nSelEnd = 0;
								::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, EM_GETSEL, reinterpret_cast < WPARAM > ( &nSelStart ), reinterpret_cast < LPARAM > ( &nSelEnd ) );
								if( nSelStart == nSelEnd )
									::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, EM_SETSEL, WPARAM( nSelStart ), LPARAM( nSelStart + 1 ) );
								if( ( g_pEditCell->GetStyle() & __EGCS_READ_ONLY ) == 0 )
									::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, EM_REPLACESEL, 1, reinterpret_cast < LPARAM > ( strEmpty ) );
							}
							continue;
						}
					}
				} // if( ! bAlt )
				if(		( (!bAlt) && bCtrl && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == int( _T(’Z’) ) )
					||	( bAlt && (!bCtrl) && (!bShift) && int(msg.wParam) == VK_BACK )
					)
				{
					LRESULT lResult = 0L;
					g_pEditCell->OnInplaceControlWindowProc(
						lResult,
						msg.message,
						msg.wParam,
						msg.lParam,
						msg.hwnd,
						*this,
						nVisibleColNo,
						nVisibleRowNo,
						nColNo,
						nRowNo,
						nColType,
						nRowType,
						rcCellExtra,
						rcCell,
						rcInplaceControl
						);
					::PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,msg.message,msg.message,PM_REMOVE);
					if( msg.message == WM_KEYDOWN )
						::SendMessage( msg.hwnd, WM_UNDO, 0, 0 );
					continue;
				} 
			}
		break;
		} // switch( msg.message )

		if( bStopFlag )
 			break;
		if( ! pThread->PumpMessage() )
 			break;

	} // in-place editor message loop
	
	g_pEditCell = NULL;
	if( ! ::IsWindow( hWndGrid ) )
		return true;
	ASSERT( CWnd::FromHandlePermanent(hWndGrid) == this );
	ASSERT_VALID( this );
	m_nHelperLastEditedColNo = -1L;
	m_nHelperLastEditedRowNo = -1L;
	if( m_hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
	{
		if( ::IsWindow(m_hWndInplaceControl) )
		{
			if( ::GetCapture() == m_hWndInplaceControl )
				::ReleaseCapture();
			::ShowWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl, SW_HIDE );
			::SetFocus( m_hWnd ); // after changing focus inplace control kill itself
			// ::DestroyWindow( m_hWndInplaceControl );
		} // if( ::IsWindow(m_hWndInplaceControl) )
		m_hWndInplaceControl = NULL;
	} // if( m_hWndInplaceControl != NULL )
	return true;
}

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