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I have a CTreeGridWnd that is two nodes deep. I would like to sort alphabetically on the root’s child nodes. These child nodes contain

CExtGridCellStringDM

 cells. It would be nice to click on the column’s header cell to toggle between ascending and descending. The FilterGrid example shows this in the CGridWnd grid, but not on the CTreeGridWnd grid. Is this possible?

Dear Support,

I have implemented my CTreeGridWnd sorting as suggested. It is working fine, with one exception. The character sort is case sensitive. For example, if there are three strings to sort: alpo; Zippo1; and zippo2. I would like the order to be: alpo; Zippo1; and zippo2. As it is implemented now, the sorted order is: Zippo1; alpo; and zippo2. How do I make the sorting case insensitive?

Thanks,

Gil

By default the cell text comparisons performed by the CExtGridCell::Compare() virtual method implementations in any of grid cell classes are case sensitive. You need to override this method in your grid cell class and perform case sensitive text comparison.

int CYourGridCellClass::Compare(
            const CExtGridCell & other,
            DWORD dwStyleMask, // = __EGCS_COMPARE_MASK
            DWORD dwStyleExMask // = __EGCS_EX_COMPARE_MASK
            ) const
{
            ASSERT_VALID( this );
CExtSafeString sLeft, sRight;
            TextGet( sLeft );
            pCell->TextGet( sRight );
INT nRet = sLeft.CompareNoCase( sRight );
            if( nRet < 0 )
                        return -1;
            if( nRet > 0 )
                        return +1;
            return C_BASE_OF_YourGridCellClass::Compare( other, dwStyleMask, dwStyleExMask );
}

Hi,

The application on which I work has many MFC style flat tool bars. I have modified these flat tool bars to Prof-UI style tool bars. This Prof-UI style tool bar works well except for 1 particular problem. The MFC style flat tool bars in my application has some amount of combo box, drop down boxes within the tool bars. When these tool bars were converted to Prof-UI style tool bars, the combo box and drop down box did not appear on the Prof-UI style tool bars. Could you please provide us the information about the methods that we need to override to enable us to view and function properly these combo boxes and drop down boxes within the tool bars

Thanks

Howard

I like implement my own skin via xml and png images. But I found one unpleasant aspect. When control draw itself with interlacing as source for background control use WindowBackground. But more real be using of vision background controls(for example, GroupBox or etc). How I can check it?

Hi,

Our interface has 1 group box with radio buttons and some normal buttons.When we tried to apply Prof-UI style to the group box we encountered a problem, that is Radio buttons and normal buttons disappear after we add a variable to group box through DDX. Is there a solution to this.

Thanks

Howard

Please check these two things:

1) The z-order of a group box in your dialog template resource should be greater than that of the controls in this group box. You can check this using Ctrl+Din the resource.

2) Your dialog template resource should have both Clip Children and Clip Siblings options set on.

Hi,

I have a control inside a dialog which is inside an autohide control bar.

What is the best way to catch when the control bar is shown from within my control?

Hi,

I am using Prof UI to color my MFC based application. What is the procedure to attach an CExtScrollBar to any of the CWnd control

Thanks

Howard

This feature is available only in v.2.82 that is coming soon.

The control bars never become attached to some already created HWND window handles. The control bars are always created as children of their parent window (most often it is an MFC frame window), then configured for re-docking etc. Please provide us with more details about your task.

Hello,

I think it is a Bug in Prof-UIS. I have to display MessageBoxes in the OnClose Event from my CMainFrm Class. I use a custom DocumentView Architecture so I have to ask the user in the OnClose Event if he will save unsaved Documents. When I display the MessageBox the Title Bar and the Ribbonbar gets invisible.

I use the Beta: 2.83 from 19. April 2008 and Windows Vista 32 Bit.

This can Reproduced in the Ribbon SDI sample. Just show a MessageBox in the on Close of the CMainFrm Class. Please tell me how to fix that problem.

Regards

Sebastian Leopold.

I need to display and edit time of day in the grid cell. 

I’m using CExtGridCellDuration - derived class for this (with days turned off), but how can I turn off combo button for this cell?It displays empty list anyways (what is it good for?).

Is there a choice to use increase/decrease buttons for changing of the selected data ? (hour/minute)

Thank you.

I just purchased and downloaded Prof-UIS 2.82.  When I try to build it using VS2008 Unicode Debug build on Windows XP SP2, I receive the following errors.  I receive the same errors for ExtScrollWnd.cpp and ExtSplitterWnd.cpp.  If I build using VS2005, the problem does not happen.  I have VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine.

This problem is solved in v.2.83 which will be released soon.

The problem occurs when you install the MFC update to VS2008.  CX_BORDER and CY_BORDER  are no longer defined in the MFC include files.  I simply added the following lines to the ExtMfcDef.h file:

#undef CX_BORDER

#undef CY_BORDER

#define CX_BORDER 1

#define CY_BORDER 1

We have Visual Studio 2008 without update and there these constants are present. They are defined in the following file: “.\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\atlmfc\src\mfc\afximpl.h". We will install the update and look there. Anyway your fix is applicable. We are going to add some new constants which should replace these.

Thank you for your choice. The CX_BORDER and CY_BORDER constants are defined in MFC and used in old style toolbars. We have all the versions of Visual C++ starting from 6.0 and up to 2008 installed on our development computers (excepting Visual Studio .NET 2002 on x64 machines where it cannot be installed) and we have never come across this problem. We believe it may have something to do with your computer. Did you install any additional software integrated with Visual Studio 2008 on your computer? Some service pack? Could you post the list of Include folders that you can find in the Visual Studio 2008 settings?

I have a menu items I creete at run time.

I setup my application to display tooltip for menu items:

    CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_eTtsClassicMenu = CExtPopupMenuTipWnd::__ETS_INV_RECTANGLE;

    pPopup->ItemInsertCommand(ID_COMMAND100, -1, "AAA\nBBB");

it does not display the tooltip (I was expecting to see BBB as a tooltip). I debugged it a little, and it seems that the tooltip is loaded using the command manager, which looks for the menu command string in the string table, which it obviously cannot find for my run-time created commands.

Can you please verify this problem and supply some kind of method to set tip to run-time created commands? If there is already a way to add tooltip to run-time commands, please explain how.

Thanks.

So we are in the process of updating our application to now use the Prof-UIS toolbars and docking windows.  We have toolbars and docking windows from a previous library we used, but have decided to change.

This previous library would, as yours does, save and load the state of toolbars if so desired.  I am in trying to load this old information in, set the data as appropriate in the new toolbars, and get things to at least closely approximate the locations where they were saved.  No customization is in place, this is strictly which toolbars are showing and where.

I get the data out of the old system’s file, and place all relevant information into a CControlBarInfo structure.  I update locations and rectangle sizes as needed to accomodate the new toolbar sizes with the current theme that is being used.  I utilize SetBarInfo to pass the information to the individual toolbars.  However, if I don’t also call CFrameWnd::DockControlBar with an appropriate rectangle, toolbars will always appear on their own rows.  Basically this equates to the following steps:

1. Find out from the old file which dockbar we are dealing with.  The old file will tell me the IDs of the bars docked to this side.


2. Find the bar info of the bars docked to this side that are visible.


3. Adjust the m_pointPos and m_rectMRUDockPos as needed to accomodate new height and width of Prof-UIS version of toolbar.


4. Call CControlBar::SetBarInfo, passing in the new information.


5. Call CFrameWnd::DockControlBar with the appropriate dock bar ID and m_rectMRUDockPos (updated to screen coordinates).

The first set of data i load works beautifully.  Any subsequent loads, even loading the same information twice, results in the bars not going where they should.  If, for example, all bars are docked to the top, upon first load they are neatly placed next to one another.  Upon the second load of the saved data, their X coordinate is correct, but each bar is on its own row.

[.....][.....]   <-- First load of saved toolbar data and first use of the above sequence.

Am I leaving something out?  Is there something extra I need to do?  If I debug through the sequence, the same coordinates are calculated every time through with the same data load...

Kevin Murray

AGI

Dear support,

Can we have a date for next release ?

Also, can we have a roadmap schedule to know when new versions will be released and which bugs are corrected ?

Thanks !

Hi,

i’m very interesting into shell common controls. Could you send me a beta version of that for testing ?

Thanks,

Ulrich

The shell support code is not inside Prof-UIS right now. It’s separated into several test/development projects which are in a damaged state. They are compile-able and we can send them to you, but we cannot guarantee the class and method names will be even similar in the final version.

I like change Aqua XML Skin. Please provide me description about Tp, Lp, Rp, Bp, Ctp, Clp, Crp, Cbp. I use ProfUIS 2.83 Beta.

Hello.

When I change size of CExtControlBar.

A drawing domain flickers.

http://www.yukai.jp/~ifreeta/20080425/SampleScroll.lzh

I am troubled.

I ask for advice.

Thanks,

The link you provided leads to a page with "File not found" .

We guess you are using the OnPaint() message handler in your dialog class. If so, the CClientDC class should be used instead of CPaintDC, because the themed background is painted before the OnPaint() handler is called:

 
void CMainDlg::OnPaint() 
{
     CClientDC dc(this);
     dc.LineTo( 100, 100 );
}

Thank you for advice.

With memory DC, I got rid of screen flicker.

http://www.geocities.jp/chiakifujimon/makesoft2/proc3.html

Is it possible to add a tooltip item to a menu item, so that when the user hovers on a menu item the popup will appear?

When I include a drop down or elipsis button in cells in a ReportGridWnd and set the extent for the item such that the height of the row is much greater than the default, the button grows to the size of the extent and looks ridiculous.  How could I keep the vertical dimension of the button the same as it is without the extent changed?

Thanks, Dave

When the CExtTabMdiWnd is placed on the right side, there is a small indentation problem on the right side as you can see below:

I seems that the loading of icons (from  HICON) assumes the icon size is even, and hence here is a black line at the bottom and/or right edges if the size of the icons width or hieght is not even. In the following function the following code change fix it for me, since the value of _sizeIcon.cx and .cy are always made even. I’m not sure if they are any other places which have this issue

bool CExtBitmap::AssignFromHICON

 //if( _sizeIcon.cx == 0 || _sizeIcon.cy == 0 ) (old line)

 if( _bmpInfo.bmWidth > 0 && _bmpInfo.bmHeight > 0 ) // (new line)

 {

  _sizeIcon.cx = (INT)_bmpInfo.bmWidth;

  _sizeIcon.cy = (INT)_bmpInfo.bmHeight;

 }

Using 2.82 pressing F1 when hovering over a menu item or toolbar bar doens’t bring up the correct page, but if I use the help mode command (not sure or correct name, but it changes your cursor then lets you click on an item) it gets the correct page. This was working when my toolbars were plane MFC ones.

Thanks