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10-Jul-06 23:19

I use windows forms in my project. This project must have multilanguage support. How can I load string from resource (String table) without using MFC. But If mfc is adaptable into windows forms, may be it is used. I don't know this.

Parthi_Appu10-Jul-06 23:30

10-Jul-06 23:30

You can use LoadString(..) or LoadResource(..)
Both are Platform SDK functions and not MFC related

mehmetned10-Jul-06 23:36

10-Jul-06 23:36

Thanks for your fast replying. How can I use this methods or functions? (LoadStrıng or LoadResource)

toxcct10-Jul-06 23:39

toxcct

10-Jul-06 23:39

like that :

CString strMainTitle;
strMainTitle.LoadString(IDS_MAINTITLE);
this->SetWindowText(strMainTitle);

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mehmetned11-Jul-06 0:33

11-Jul-06 0:33

CString is in MFC library. But I must load string without using MFC library.

toxcct11-Jul-06 2:23

toxcct

11-Jul-06 2:23

oh sorry, i didn't check you didn't want MFC...

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Parthi_Appu10-Jul-06 23:50

10-Jul-06 23:50

i'm providing the signature of those functions,

int LoadString(HINSTANCE hInstance, UINT uid, LPTSTR pBuffer, int nBufferLength);

HGLOBAL LoadResource(HMODULE hModule, HRSRC hResourceInfo);
HRSRC FindResource(HMODULE hModule, LPCTSTR lpName, LPCTSTR lpType);

Refer the following link for more info and to know how to use them,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/strings/stringreference/stringfunctions/loadstring.asp[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/introductiontoresources/resourcereference/resourcefunctions/loadresource.asp[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/introductiontoresources/resourcereference/resourcefunctions/findresource.asp[^]

mehmetned11-Jul-06 0:28

11-Jul-06 0:28

int LoadString( HINSTANCE hInstance,
UINT uID,
LPTSTR lpBuffer,
int nBufferMax
);

Unfortunately, I couldn't understand first parameter of this function. Can you explain this parameter?

mehmetned11-Jul-06 0:30

11-Jul-06 0:30

int LoadString( HINSTANCE hInstance,
UINT uID,
LPTSTR lpBuffer,
int nBufferMax
);
Unfortunately, I couldn't understand first parameter of this function. Can you explain?

Parthi_Appu11-Jul-06 0:37

11-Jul-06 0:37

If the StringTable is in the same application then you can pass NULL as first parameter

mehmetned11-Jul-06 0:53

11-Jul-06 0:53

"error C3861: 'LoadString': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup"

Can you tell me that what is the reason of this error? All the parameter of this functon are correct as given below.

TCHAR sz[160];
LoadString(NULL,IDYES,sz,sizeof(sz));

Parthi_Appu11-Jul-06 0:59

11-Jul-06 0:59

check by incuding "windows.h"

Modeless Dialog in MDI app [modified]

David Crow11-Jul-06 5:16

David Crow

11-Jul-06 5:16

mehmetned wrote:
How can I use this methods or functions? (LoadStrıng or LoadResource)

See here.

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eusto10-Jul-06 23:01

10-Jul-06 23:01

First of all i'm working in a MDI evironment
I want to create a CDialog that would kind off stay on the background of all other windows so i've placed it in the MainFrm Object:

VERIFY(pMainFrame->m_InitialDlg.Create(CInitialDlg::IDD, pMainFrame));
VERIFY(pMainFrame->m_InitialDlg.SetWindowPos(&wndBottom, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOMOVE));

The trouble is that m_InitialDlg stays on top of all the other Windows (the Doc/View/Frame ones) Any ideea how to fix this?
Is there a beter way of doing it that does not require the CDialog..?

-- modified at 5:01 Tuesday 11th July, 2006

Nibu babu thomas17-Jul-06 19:03

17-Jul-06 19:03

eusto wrote:
The trouble is that m_InitialDlg stays on top of all the other Windows (the Doc/View/Frame ones) Any ideea how to fix this?

Set the dialog's parent to NULL. Since the MDI frame is the parent hence it stays on top of it.

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eusto19-Jul-06 2:07

19-Jul-06 2:07

Tried it with null also Frown | :(

it's still a modal window and hence it has top most style (as opposed to views)

Nibu babu thomas19-Jul-06 2:09

19-Jul-06 2:09

eusto wrote:
Tried it with null also it's still a modal window and hence it has top most style (as opposed to views)

How are you displaying it. Are you calling DoModal() or ShowWindow().

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eusto19-Jul-06 2:16

19-Jul-06 2:16

ShowWindow

Nibu babu thomas19-Jul-06 2:18

19-Jul-06 2:18

eusto wrote:
ShowWindow

I am surprised. Then how is it being displayed as a modal dialog. Are you able to interact with the parent window.

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eusto19-Jul-06 2:29

19-Jul-06 2:29

I'm able to interact with the parent window..in fact it's just as if it weren't there. I can push buttons and stuff on views behind it...It's just that it is drawn on top of all other modeless windows. It's quite odd..try it, you'll see. Just create a MDI project, add in a dialog, add a member to that dialog to your mainframe class and call:

VERIFY(pMainFrame->m_InitialDlg.Create(CInitialDlg::IDD, pMainFrame));
VERIFY(pMainFrame->m_InitialDlg.SetWindowPos(&wndBottom, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOMOVE));

in OnCreate method of the MainFrame class

Nibu babu thomas19-Jul-06 2:33

19-Jul-06 2:33

eusto wrote:
VERIFY(pMainFrame->m_InitialDlg.SetWindowPos(&wndBottom, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOMOVE));

What about simple ShowWindow() Is that of any use.

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eusto19-Jul-06 2:49

19-Jul-06 2:49

It's actually the same thing. SetWindowPos gives more options. I guess i could play with showwindow(sw_show)/showwindow(sw_hide) depending wether or not there are open documents but that's not a nice thing.

Nibu babu thomas19-Jul-06 2:51