Re: Get the path to MS Office - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

vineas9-Jun-05 8:43

9-Jun-05 8:43

A project I'm working on has me updating some app generated e-mail code (that used Simple MAPI) so that it can send image attachments that show up inline as part of an html message instead of simply as attachments. I used CDO for this, which worked great once I could finally figure out how it all worked (worst part is most of the MSDN samples were usually missing one key component to get it to work ... grr). I'm almost done, except for one little problem. What I want to do is open the generated e-mail up with the default e-mail program, to allow the user to change the message as they want and put in recipients. But, using the IMessage's Send function, the call will fail unless there is a recipient specified ... in other words, it will only send the message silently, without user interaction.

With simple MAPI, I can simply call SendMail with the MAPI_LOGON_UI|MAPI_DIALOG flags, and it opens up the e-mail in the e-mail client. This works great, and is what the old code used to do. Too bad I can't use this function with the IMessage message.

From what I can see from sample source and other documentation, with pretty much any other language supported by microsoft, the Send function I'm calling has a ShowDialog parameter that allows you to pop-up the dialog like I want it to (I'm so sick of seeing VB examples like this I could just puke). Unfortunately, this function is not available with C++, it only has the one version that takes no parameters.

One line of thought I had was to save the email out as a temporary file, then send open it with a shell command .. but that won't work quite right either, the generated e-mail can be saved as a .eml file, which opens up in Outlook Express ... not the default e-mail program, and even that doesn't quite work the way I intend either.

I've been searching through MSDN and the web for over a day now, and because the functionality is there for other languages, I know there has to be a setting or field I can set to allow this ... but I can't find anything. Anyone go through something similar, or have some other place I can look?

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loading a bitmap from file

bkphat9-Jun-05 8:37

bkphat

9-Jun-05 8:37

how can I load a bitmap from file and display it inside (let's say) a static control?

thank you

Re: loading a bitmap from file

Dominik Reichl9-Jun-05 8:48

Dominik Reichl

9-Jun-05 8:48

http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/technical/Languages/Bitmaps.htm[^]

_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)

Re: loading a bitmap from file

Budric B.9-Jun-05 8:51

Budric B.

9-Jun-05 8:51

A. You can go to Resource Editor and add bitmap to your resources. Add static picture control to your dialog, make it type bitmap and set the ID of the bitmap you loaded as resource for this control. This is done before you compile.

B. Use an imaging library. I like FreeImage. There are others: CxImage, DevIL etc etc. So loading a bitmap depends on the library you use. There's some code
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/developers.html#faq. Once you load the image, override the class for the user control you're using and implement OnPaint() function to draw the bitmap you loaded.

This should get you started.

how to count print outs

Ajay Nikam9-Jun-05 8:14

Ajay Nikam

9-Jun-05 8:14

i want to count print outs printed by printer is any way to do this plz suggest me.
i am making cyber cafe managing software i need to count print out in my program Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Get the path to MS Office

Nitron9-Jun-05 8:12

Nitron

9-Jun-05 8:12

How can I programatically find out if MS Excel is installed on a PC and where it resides?

Thanx!!

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Re: Get the path to MS Office

Kappy9-Jun-05 10:49

Kappy

9-Jun-05 10:49

I would reccomend going through the Registry. Read HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls and see what the associated program name is. If this key doesn't exist you know right away that Excel is probably not installed. Next take the value read from the default value (usually something like "Excel.Sheet.8") and look for it in the registry with the command path appended:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command

The default value of that key will tell you the location of Excel. You will have to parse it up a bit though. Hope that helps.

Re: Get the path to MS Office

Tom Archer9-Jun-05 16:18

Tom Archer

9-Jun-05 16:18

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Office/<Version>/Common/FilesPaths

Re: Get the path to MS Office

Nitron10-Jun-05 2:42

Nitron

10-Jun-05 2:42

Thx!!

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Menu in child window

PJ Arends9-Jun-05 7:02

PJ Arends

9-Jun-05 7:02

Hey All,

I have a property page with an embedded CFrameWnd that is the child of the page. I can add CToolbars and a CStatusbar with absolutely no problems, and I am using a CRichEditCtrl for the view. But I am unable to add a menu to the frame. Calling SetMenu() fails and GetLastError() returns 0x59c ==> Child windows can not have menus.

Does anyone know of a way that I can add a menu to a child CFrameWnd, in such a way that the default toolbars still work? I tried Yao Zhifeng's CMenuBarXP class[^]. While it did put a menu in place, it did not cooperate with the layout mechanism of the frame and would simply draw itself overtop the toolbar and/or the edit control.

Basicly what I am after is to embed a complete SDI frame window into a CPropertyPage. Any links or hints would be appreciated.

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Re: Menu in child window

James R. Twine9-Jun-05 7:22

James R. Twine

9-Jun-05 7:22

   Off of the top of my head, there would be two things that I would try:

     1: "Fake" it, by creating a toolbar that uses text for buttons and then activate menus in-place when the buttons are pressed, kinda how some dockable menu systems work

     2: Embed the menu in a rebar, and place the rebar in the window.

     Hey - can you add a menu to a CDialogBar? If so, you can dock it to the top of the frame.)

   Peace!

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Re: Menu in child window

PJ Arends9-Jun-05 17:56

PJ Arends

9-Jun-05 17:56

Thanks for the suggestions James. I will look into the rebar and dialogbar options. The first option of "faking" it does not appeal to me at the moment, but may end up being the choice of last resort.

I was actually hoping for a link to an article written by someone who had already done this and had figured everything out. D'Oh! | :doh:

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How to Create A Shared Folder

f29-Jun-05 6:41

9-Jun-05 6:41

i was surfing the whole noon just looking on how to create a shared folder over network with permission. i also couldn't found any example in MSDN. at last i found some code snippets on some forum.. anyone could give some code snippets? thanks in advanced.

SECURITY_INFORMATION SecurityInformation;
SecurityInformation = OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION;

SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR SecurityDescriptor;
ACL Acl;
SID Sid;

DWORD dwAclAllowed;
dwAclAllowed = sizeof(ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE) - sizeof(DWORD) + GetLengthSid(&Sid);

InitializeAcl(&Acl, dwAclAllowed, ACL_REVISION);
InitializeSecurityDescriptor(&SecurityDescriptor, SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION);
SetSecurityDescriptorOwner(&SecurityDescriptor, &Sid, TRUE);
SetSecurityDescriptorGroup(&SecurityDescriptor, &Sid, TRUE);
SetSecurityDescriptorDacl(&SecurityDescriptor, TRUE, &Acl, TRUE);
SetSecurityDescriptorSacl(&SecurityDescriptor, TRUE, &Acl, TRUE);

SetFileSecurity(strOCRDownloadFontLibPath, SecurityInformation, &SecurityDescriptor);

from,
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ailFreeing memory

laiju9-Jun-05 4:57

laiju

9-Jun-05 4:57

This may be a general doubt but I do need clarification .
I have declared a userdefined class object m_pElement as a member of CMainFrame.
I want to release its memory in the destructor in the foll.manner.

CMainFrame::~CMainFrame()
{
if (m_pElement)
delete m_Element;
}

But if I had not declared memory for pElement using 'new' the above destruction leads to exception.
How to check for allocated memory and then release the memory for pElement.

laiju

Re: ailFreeing memory

Cedric Moonen9-Jun-05 5:05

Cedric Moonen

9-Jun-05 5:05

In the class constructor of CMainFrame, set pointer to NULL:

CMainFrame::CMainFrame()<br />
{<br />
m_pElement = NULL;<br />
}

Like that, in your destructor, if the pointer is NULL, it won't be destroyed.

Re: ailFreeing memory

Budric B.9-Jun-05 5:13

Budric B.

9-Jun-05 5:13

Set m_pElement to NULL in your constructor. Then, the if statement will actually work and the delete will not be executed. And even if it is, it's not a problem to delete a pointer to NULL. In your case however, m_pElement can point to 0x0ccccc (arbitrary) and you're trying to delete it which is not legal.

Read a line from a text file

bkphat9-Jun-05 4:34

bkphat

9-Jun-05 4:34

i am working in MFC VC++ and need to read a specfic line, and only that line from a text file. Is there a readline() function or something like that?

thanks

Re: Read a line from a text file

toxcct9-Jun-05 5:18

toxcct

9-Jun-05 5:18

is std::ifstream::getline() useful ?

cheers,

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Re: Read a line from a text file

James R. Twine9-Jun-05 5:49

James R. Twine

9-Jun-05 5:49

   There is _fgetts(...) function.

   Are you looking for something MFC-specific, like CStdioFile::ReadString(...)...? Or something that uses native Win32 HANDLEs?

   Peace!

-=- James

Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

Maximilien9-Jun-05 4:34

Maximilien

9-Jun-05 4:34

I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing.

I have a CStatic in a dialog ( with the associated variable in the dialog class ), and I want to change the "weight" of the font of the CStatic, make it bold or normal depending on a state.

Can I do something like :

// a user pressed a button to make the CStatic bold...
 CFont* font = m_MaxStatic.GetFont();
 LOGFONT logFont;

 font->GetLogFont( &logFont );
 logFont.lfWeight = FW_BOLD;

 CFont newFont;
 newFont.CreateFontIndirect( &logFont );
 m_MaxStatic.SetFont(&newFont);

when I do the above, the font seems ok, it appears bold, but if the dialogs ( or the control ) gets invalidated, the font (size) is different.

Do I need to make the 2 different fonts (normal and bold) class members ( of either the dialog or a derived CStatic class ) ? or is there a better way to dinamically change the font of a control ?

Should there be a functional difference between small fonts vs. large fonts.

Thanks a lot.

Maximilien Lincourt
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Re: Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

James R. Twine9-Jun-05 4:42

James R. Twine

9-Jun-05 4:42

Maximilien wrote:
CFont newFont;

   You are creating the font correctly. But since it is local to the function, it goes out of scope when the function exits. This means that the font the control is trying to use has been destroyed. So the next time it tries to draw, it no longer has a valid font.

   Make the CFont object a member of the class. That should do it for you.

   Peace!

-=- James

Re: Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

Maximilien9-Jun-05 5:32

Maximilien

9-Jun-05 5:32

Yeah, thanks, It figures ...

(ranting)
it's kind of weird that I have a CWnd object with the SetFont() method and I need to keep a local copy of the font ... why can't it copy the font instead of keeping a pointer to it.

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Re: Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

James R. Twine9-Jun-05 5:45

James R. Twine

9-Jun-05 5:45

   It allows only a single instance of the same font to be used with multiple controls, and you (the developer) maintain its lifetime, so there is no additional allocate-copy-deallocate overhead.

   I would not want to set the font for 20 controls on a non-modal dialog, then open a few copies of that dialog, and have MFC have a bunch of identical copies of a font being managed.

   Peace!

-=- James

Re: Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

Michael Dunn9-Jun-05 6:55

Michael Dunn

9-Jun-05 6:55

7.2: I'm trying to change the font of a dialog control, but it's not having any effect. Why?[^]

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Re: Changing the font of a control ( CStatic )

Maximilien9-Jun-05 7:04

Maximilien

9-Jun-05 7:04

Thanks for the faq link ...

Sniff | :^)

I will hide under a rock ...

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