I am trying to use an edit control along with a spin control using MFC visual studio .net 2003. I have carried out the basic settings for the spin control like setting the "AutoBuddy" property and "SetBuddyInteger" property to True so that the Spin control works in coordination with the edit control next to it. In my Spin control's event handler, I am facing a problem when I am trying to call my Invalidate() function. The float value in my edit control does not update and stays zero. If I remove the Invalidate(), then the value increments but my paint function is not updated obviously. A code of the following is given below:
void CMyDlg::OnSpinA(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult)
{
LPNMUPDOWN pNMUpDown = reinterpret_cast<LPNMUPDOWN>(pNMHDR);
// TODO: Add your control notification handler code here
UpdateData();
m_A = m_ASpinCtrl.GetPos(); // m_A is my edit control float value variable
Invalidate(); // Invalidate is to be called to update my paint function to redraw the drawing
UpdateData(false);
*pResult = 0;
}
I have carried out the tab order correctly as well for the two controls.
Any suggestions on where I am going wrong?
Thanks in advance.
If you just want to have a spinning integer, you don't have to override anything.
The spin control has to be right next to the edit control in the tab order. With AutoBuddy that's all you have to do.
m_A when getting the position back would do something weird and would not return you the correct value. Try using the pointer to get your position and value and then carry out the invalidate().
{
LPNMUPDOWN pNMUpDown = reinterpret_cast<LPNMUPDOWN>(pNMHDR);
// TODO: Add your control notification handler code here
UpdateData();
CString tempStr;
m_A += pNMUpDown->iDelta;
tempStr.Format("%f",m_A);
m_ACtrl.SetWindowText(tempStr); // Like a CEdit m_ACtrl to display your string
Invalidate();
UpdateData(false);
*pResult = 0;
}
This should work perfectly well. Let me know if you still get any problems.
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i have made a program, which include a lot of controls. The controls would be showed and hided according to the choice of the user. That means that controls overlapped on each other at design time. now i want to change the forecolor and backcolor of all controls at design time. but i founded so hard to accomplish this task, because all the control overlapping each other. so I decided to make a for loop method to iterate the controls in the form and then check each control in turn whether it has controls. when the control has also controls in it, I call the same method and pass the control to it to change the properties for the subcontrols too. The method like so:
void setColor(ref Control con)
{
con.BackColor= System.Drawing.Color.Black;
con.ForeColor=System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
if (con.Controls.Count > 0) { setColor(ref con); }
}
so my Form include tabControl with multiple tabPages. I iterate the tabPages and wanted to pass it to this method, but I become error "Indexer may not be passed as an out or ref parameter"
I pass it so: setColor(ref tabControl1.Controls[i]);
can you please help me to solve this problem?
I have resolved the problem.
I have removed the "ref" from method and wrote the method simply like the following:
void SetColor(Control con)
{
con.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
con.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
if (con.Controls.Count > 0)
{
for (int i=0; i<con.Controls.Count;i++)
SetColor(con.Controls[i]);
}
}
and call it so: setColor(this.Controls[i]);
I have created Ribbon button for Outlook 2013 using c#.
And i have also set image for the ribbon.
Now on click of Ribbon button i want to change Ribbon Image.
Is it possible to achieve this using c#.?
Not sure how exactly you want it to work, but this could do the trick.
bool callback {get;set}
public Bitmap GetImage(IRibbonControl control)
{
switch (control.Id)
{
case "FooButtonId":
{
if(callback== true){
callback = false;
return new Bitmap(Properties.Resources.someimage1);
}else
callback =true;
return new Bitmap(Properties.Resources.someimage2);
}
}
}
}
This question is 3 yo but helped me to go further and I want to share this with you.
First, I accomplished this in VB.net so my code will be in VB.net. There are some online tools to convert the code into C#.
Second, I used a Toggle button instead of a Simple button.
Third, I used OnOff as a project setting in order to save the state of the Toggle button.
Step 1: Ribbon.xml file, code to place the toggle button on the ribbon.
Assuming you already have set up the tab and group tags in the file.
<toggleButton id="onoffTBTN" label="ON/OFF" showImage="true" onAction="OnOffToggle" getImage="OnOffImage"/>
Step 2: Ribbon.vb file, code to change the OnOff setting based on the Toggle button status(pressed or not) and forces to invalidate the custom control
Public Sub OnOffToggle(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl, ByVal pressed As Boolean)
My.Settings.OnOff = pressed
My.Settings.Save()
myRibbon.InvalidateControl("onoffTBTN")
End Sub
Step 3: Ribbon.vb file, reads the OnOff setting and changes the image accordingly. Have in mind that your images must have been added to your project resources in order to use them at My.Resources.*. I used png files that support transparent pixels. This function is called in two occasions, first when the Outlook starts and second when the toggle button is pressed and specifically with the command myRibbon.InvalidateControl("onoffTBTN").
Public Function OnOffImage(ByVal control As Office.IRibbonControl) As Drawing.Bitmap
Dim onoff As Boolean = My.Settings.OnOff
Select Case control.Id
Case "onoffTBTN"
If onoff = True Then
Return New Drawing.Bitmap(My.Resources._on)
Else
Return New Drawing.Bitmap(My.Resources.off)
End If
End Select
End Function
The only weird behaviour is when the OnOff setting has been set to TRUE. The correct image is displayed but the Toggle button looks unpressed. You have to click twice in order to set the OnOff setting to False.
I am relatively new to the Win32/Windows API (non-MFC), and am trying to change the text colour of a static text control. It is already drawn to the screen in black, but I want to change it to another colour using the Windows Colour Chooser dialog, which is opened on clicking a button. Is this possible?
For the button, the WM_COMMAND message is handled on clicking. So far, I have written:
CHOOSECOLOR ccColour;
ccColour.lStructSize = sizeof(ccColour);
ccColour.hwndOwner = hWnd;
ccColour.rgbResult = crLabelTextColour;
ccColour.Flags = CC_FULLOPEN | CC_RGBINIT;
if (ChooseColor(&ccColour) == TRUE)
{
// crLabelTextColour is a COLORREF global variable assigned on loading the program
crLabelTextColour = ccColour.rgbResult;
}
This code, however, fails with an unhandled exception at the if statement, and I'm not sure why! Other examples seem to write code like this.
ChooseColor() crashes because you are not initializing the CHOOSECOLOR structure completely. You are only setting 3 fields, the rest will contain garbage. You'll need to zero-initialize everything, simple to do:
CHOOSECOLOR ccColour = {0};
I'm on a roll today with MFC! :D
I have a text box and a list view control.
When the user presses the VK_UP and VK_DOWN keys in the text box, I would like this to happen:
Do some stuff.
Have the list view control also process the message (to highlight the previous/next item).
I want the list view to wrap around the current selection, if the key press is the first in its sequence.
Do some more stuff.
I tried subclassing my edit box in my dialog:
class MyEditBox : public CWnd
{
bool allowWrap;
afx_msg void OnKeyUp(UINT, UINT, UINT) { this->allowWrap = true; }
afx_msg void OnKeyDown(UINT nChar, UINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags)
{
CListCtrl &listView = static_cast<CListView *>(
this->GetParent()->GetDlgItem(IDC_LIST_VIEW))->GetListCtrl();
if (nChar == VK_UP || nChar == VK_DOWN)
{
int iSelBefore = listView.GetNextItem(-1, LVNI_SELECTED);
this->GetParent()->GetDlgItem(IDC_LIST_VIEW)
->OnKeyDown(nChar, nRepCnt, nFlags); //Oops! Protected member :(
int iSelAfter = listView.GetNextItem(-1, LVNI_SELECTED);
if (iSelBefore == iSelAfter && // Did the selection reach an end?
this->allowWrap) // If so, can we wrap it around?
{
int i = a == 0 ? listView.GetItemCount() - 1 : 0;
listView.SetItemState(i, LVIS_SELECTED | LVIS_FOCUSED,
LVIS_SELECTED | LVIS_FOCUSED);
}
}
this->allowWrap = false;
}
}
but OnKeyDown() is a protected member, so I can't just call it on another control.
Is there a better way to solve this than manually sending the command with SendMessage? Should I change my design, e.g. subclass something else, etc.?
Your intention is to select previous or next item in list control, right? Then you should call the method to do that directly instaed of asking the CListCtrl to "process" your message.
You may call CListCtrl::SetSelectionMark and CListCtrl::SetItemState to select next or previous keystroke. Example:
cListCtrl.SetSelectionMark(nIndex);
cListCtrl.SetItemState(nIndex, LVIS_SELECTED | LVIS_FOCUSED, 0xFF);
You can handle Key Down, Key Up as well as Page Down, Page Up, End, Home or any any key from edit box. You need to do calculation, though.
Or you can just SendMessage. There is no need to call OnKeyDown directly. Let the framework call it for you when you send the message.
I am seeing also other ways to solve this:
Derive a class from CListCtrl called MyListCtrl and choose one of two things:
1.1 Declare MyEditBox as a friend and now you can call the protected methods on MyEditBox
1.2 Add public methods CallOnKeyDown(...) and CallOnKeyup(...) to it that only do what is needed.
And when creating the control, instance a MyListCtrl instead of a CListCtrl. Also replace the listView variable you have shown here to be a MyListCtrl and use the methods you have now available
Use PreTranslateMessage(...). I think this "hammer" solution is worse than sending a message.
I noticed that in Windows, if you maximize a window you can not resize it until you un-maximized it again. This appears to be a normal behaviour, so I would like to remove my resize gripper when the window is maximised.
At the moment I can't find a property to detect if a window is maximized, and although I could add a boolean in my controller, it wouldn't necessarily catch requests to maximize from the OS.
So if you know of a reliable way to test if a window is maximized please let me know.
On a related note, I am using custom chrome, and when I maximize a window it overlaps the windows task bar. I can think of hacks to detect available screen size (using a transparent system chrome window), but it would be good to know of a better method.
Thanks
Rob
In your application (MXML) on the in the init method you ussually call on creationComplete:
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"
creationComplete="init()" >
Add the following code:
this.addEventListener(NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent.DISPLAY_STATE_CHANGE, trackState);
the method looks like this:
public function trackState(event:NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent):void
{
if (event.afterDisplayState == NativeWindowDisplayState.MAXIMIZED)
{
isMaximised = true;
} else {
isMaximised = false;
}
}
I have figured out how this can best be done thanks to some pointers from TheBrain.
Firstly you need to watch for resize events to the window your want to control:
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.activeWindow.addEventListener(NativeWindowBoundsEvent.RESIZE, onWindowResize);
Then handle that event to decide if the window is maximised or not:
public function onWindowResize(event:NativeWindowBoundsEvent):void
{
if (event.afterBounds.height >= Screen.mainScreen.visibleBounds.height && event.afterBounds.width >= Screen.mainScreen.visibleBounds.width)
isMaximised = true;
else
isMaximised = false;
}
You then need to catch or create your own maximize button, and when clicked perform the following code:
if (isMaximised)
{
var bounds:Rectangle = Screen.mainScreen.visibleBounds;
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.activeWindow.bounds = bounds;
}
else
{
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.activeWindow.bounds = new Rectangle(100, 100, 500, 600);
}
You can modify the bounds to over maximize (which is handy for custom chrome windows with shadows), and you can also set the application to reset to a default size if the maximize button is clicked when it's already maximized (or do nothing).
I had issues about when to assign the window resize listner, and ended up removing and adding it every time the maximize button was clicked. It's a bit of overkill, but not too bad.
There is Win32 API Call that will do this for you:
BOOL IsZoomed( HWND hWnd );
to get the actual usable space from the screen, use the flash.display.Screen class, or you can use the systemMaxSize() which returns the largest window size allowed by the OS. For maximization you have some events that the window is dispaching when maximized/minimized/restored. You can find more info on the adobe pages (the link under systemMaxSize).
To detect if window is maximized...I don't think there is such a function (I might be wrong) but you can test if the app size is equal with the available screen size which means it's maximized. Or hook on the resize event which is triggered when the app is maximized/minimized/resized
Here is an easier way of checking if a window is maximized:
if(stage.nativeWindow.displayState == NativeWindowDisplayState.MAXIMIZED)
{
//do something
}
The following worked for me. No need to set event listeners, this code can be used to check the real-time state of the native window:
if (nativeWindow.displayState == 'maximized')
{
trace('Maximized');
}
else
{
trace('Minimized');
}
Can you use something like this to hook the maximize() event?