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CCurveDlg - Curve Interpolation

Janssens Johan
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Sep 16, 2001

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A Photoshop-like curve dialog.

Sample Image - CurveDlg.gif

Introduction

Welcome to CCurveDlg, a Freeware MFC Curve Class

Its appearance is similar to the curves dialog as seen in the Adobe Photoshop. The classes are split up into a document/view architecture.

  • CCurveWnd, derived from CWnd, for the visual representation of the curve. This class takes care of drawing and user interaction.
  • CCurveObject, derived from CObject for the data representation of the curve. This class holds the curve data, and does all calculation calls, to perform the curve interpolation.

The actual calculation is done with the help of the XlXtrFun.dll. This is actually an Excel extension DLL or XLL, but I have written a wrapper class CCurveDllImpl for it, so it can easily be used in VC++. For more info regarding this DLL, check their website.

Usage

Adding a CCurveWnd is simple, just follow the next steps:

  1. Add the following files to your project workspace:
    • CurveWnd.h and CurveWnd.cpp
    • CurveObject.h, CurveObject.cpp and CurveObjectDef.h
    • CurveDllImpl.h and CurveDllImpl.cpp.
  2. Copy the XlXtrFun.dll to your project directory

    You should also ensure that the 3 cursors (namely, IDC_ARRBLCK, IDC_ARRWHITE and IDC_ARRBLCKCROSS) are copied over into your rc file and renamed properly.

  3. Add the following include statement to your project stdafx.h file 
    #include "resource.h"
  4. Then add a CCurveWnd member to your own CDialog class: 
    CCurveWnd m_cCurveWnd;

    In your CDialog::OnInitDialog(), you need to create the CurveWnd:

     m_cCurveWnd.Create("", 
 CRect(25, 55, 235, 265), this, 2001, true);

    The Create method is defined as follows:

    BOOL Create(LPCTSTR lpszCurveName,   //Points to a null-terminated 
                                     //character string that 
                                     //contains the window name
            const RECT &rect,        // The size and position 
                                     //of the window, in client 
                                     //coordinates of pParentWnd
            CWnd* pWndParent,        // The parent window
            UINT nID,                // The ID of the child window
            BOOL CreateCurveObj)     // Set to true if the create 
                                     // function has to
                                     // create a curve object

Note: If you set CreateCurveObj = false and you don't create a curve object manually by calling CCurveWnd::CreateCurveObject(CString strCurve), the application may assert.

If you want the CurveWnd to draw a parabolic curve, you have to add the following code:

CCurveObject* pCurve = m_cCurveWnd.GetCurveObject();
pCurve->m_bParabolic = true;

The GetCurveObject method is defined as follows:

CCurveObject* GetCurveObject(); // Returns a pointer to the curveobject

Basically that will do the job.

API Functions

Full description of the API functions is not yet available, I haven't had the time to write it. But I will come up with the first update of the code, so until then just email me if u have problems and questions.

History

  • v1.0 (16 september 2001)

    CCurveDlg first released.

Planned Enhancements

If you have any suggested improvements, please let me know so that I can incorporate them into the next release.

Special Thanks