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Sorry I'm not sure whether this has been asked before. Will appreciate it if someone points out to me how to run a search through this forum.
I have an application that draws a rectangle across my viewport(a rectangle in a dialog box) by the standard operation (left mouse down, left mouse held, mouse goes right, mouse up). A rectangle of height of my viewport will be drawn starting from the point.x value where the mouse is clicked to where it is released. but recently i notice a problem in that since my viewport in my dialog is limited, if i shift the mouse at a reasonable speed, it seems to be unable to draw a full rectangle from the start point to the end point. It seems to end prematurely at some random point before the extreme right end. But there is no such problem if i move my mouse slowly. I believe changing the way i handle mouse down, mouse move and mouse up can handle this prob.
But curious and troublesome me just want to know, wat is the frequency that the mouse moving message is sent to Windows? Or could the complexity of my app be the reason behind this problem? Thanks for any answer!!
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You are doing SetCapture aren't you. If you don't then your dialog will stop getting mousemove messages when the mouse is outside the dialog so it will stop updating the drag rect.
This may be one of your problems, but I suspect you have some others, too.
Phil
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Thanks Phil for teaching me about SetCapture. Have nv encountered it beforein my short programming experience.
But maybe to make my problem clearer, it's not about capturing mouse position in a sense. I'm more curious about how often is this mousemove message sent out. For example, every second? every millisecond? every pixel?
It's just a question that suddenly popped into my brain...because i can draw a rectangle within a rectangle nicely if i shift the mouse at a slightly slower or normal speed( depending on how you perceive it). But if i am to slowly approach the boundary of my drawing area (a rectangle) within my dialog box, and near the end suddenly increase the speed of shifting my mouse, suddenly zooming past the extreme right of my drawing rectangle (and not my dialog), the rectangle drawn will not be covering a certain area on the right of my drawing area.
I tried it a few times, and notice it's pretty random, as in the area left undrawn, despite my mouse moving over it, is always changing.
Hence this question:
Is the mousemove msg sent every sec, every pixel or what?
I hope this is much clearer =)
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misugi wrote: Will appreciate it if someone points out to me how to run a search through this forum.
See here.
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hi folks,
i want to make a MFC application which only should have a tray icon and a popup menu (accessible via the tray icon). but i don't know what kind of application i should choose. should i make a dialog based or a sdi one ? i mean i only need the message map.
thanks in advance.
greets
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Hello,
If you only need a message map, I suggest that you don't use MFC at all. Just using plain old WIN32 APIs frees you from loading DLLs and eases the deployment.
If this is no problem, you should use the SDI application. Simply removing the dialog class is not enough as you need a window to have a message map. You can also use some handy classes here on CP for tray icons.
Hope this helps 
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hi,
yes, i have to use MFC because there are some classes in my app which need it.
creating the tray icon and the popup is no problem. i only have to bother with getting rid of unnecessary dialogs and/or windows. the result should be a MFC based application with only a tray icon and a popup menu as its GUI - neither a dialog nor a window can be visible.
aren't there any sample codes out there? i can't believe that i'm the first one who's trying this.
greeting
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Hello,
You can simply set the style of the framewindow (in the SDI case) or your dialog to invisible.
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yes thanks. now i got what i want.
here's what i have done: i've used a simple MFC dialog based application. i used to start it in InitInstance with RunModalLoop() and set the visible mode of the dialog in the resource editor to false. In the CDialog derived class i've overloaded the function OnCreate and added the following Window Style:
ModifyStyleEx(0, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW );
and, well, it works: NO WINDOW. NO DIALOG. NO TASKBAR ENTRY. AND I STILL GOT MY MESSAGE MAP 
thanks everone.
greetings
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I have a large, complex app MFC with /CLR, Unicode, uses several dll's including one .NET assembly.
Release build works perfectly on dev machine.
Deployed to target machine with .NET Framework 2.0 and all necessary dependencies. It crashes immediately every time in kernel32.dll with exception 0x406d1388. Further examination with depends.exe shows that the caller was advapi32.dll but I can't get much more info.
This happens on WinXP SP2 and on Win2k SP4.
It seems that the exception is the one normally used to set a thread name so it makes no sense to me that it's causing a crash. 
If I run the app (same release version) by remote debugging from VS2005 it all works properly. 
I've built a simpler test app to try to reproduce use as much as possible of the same environment (MFC, CLR, dll's and so on) and it also works perfectly. 
Please can someone give me a clue????????
Regards,
Phil
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You will need to get symbols and get a stack trace so you can find out what the actual call is.
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Thanks for the reply.
That's proving $%^@# difficult!
The problem seems to occur at some stage in the runtime initialisation.
If I run the programme under VS2005 it won't fail. I set it to break on the exception but it never sees it.
If I jit debug it the process wakes up and continues faultless as soon as the debugger attaches.
WinDbg sometimes sees the exception but I can't get any sense out of the call stack. I can't set breakpoints using WinDbg because it corrupts the code somehow and complains about "invalid x86 breakpoint in IL stream".
Any ideas ... ?
Regards,
Phil
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I have fixed it. Please see my reply to the original post for details.
Thanks again for your interest.
Phil
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Eureka! I have found it!
After hours of trying various debuggers and debugging strategies, countless cups of good strong tea and not a few words of frustration and annoyance I have located and fixed the problem.
Buried deep in my own initialisation code, in a place I haven't visited for years and had forgotten all about is a call to a function called SetThreadName which uses exception 0x406d1388  . This was being compiled as managed code so the framework was seeing the exception even before the catch block in the same function. The solution was simply to mark that function as unmanaged (and then drink more tea  ).
Phil
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Never use managed code
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Dear Friends
I have created a dialog based MFC application. Here I have one form say "MyForm", showing on my current desktop when I run my application. I have two button on this form called "NewDesktop" and "OldDesktop".
Now when I press "NewDesktop" I use CreateDesktop() functions and then SwitchDesktop() so It creates new desktop and shows the new desktop. But now it hides my previous application and my form. Now I want to show my form(MyForm) in this new desktop. I don't know how to do that?
Any help please?
With many many thankx and regards in advance
Mahesh
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Have you tried "SetThreadDesktop" and then create the UI?
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Hi...
I have tried that but it return's false value.
Whats seems to be the reason?
Mahesh
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"Remarks
The SetThreadDesktop function will fail if the calling thread has any windows or hooks on its current desktop (unless the hDesktop parameter is a handle to the current desktop)."
You must do this FIRST, then create your window. I don't think there is a way to move an already created window between desktops as it's managed by the WM for that particular desktop.
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hello,
does anybody know how to make a financial calendar? Here are some rules :
1- it begins on Jan 1 and ends at Dec 31 (always)
2- it has 4 4 5 (it means Jan has 4 weeks, Feb 4 weeks and March 5 and so on for each quarter)
Ex: Avril 4 weeks, Mai 4 weeks and Jui 5 weeks;
Jui 4 weeks, Aug 4 weeks and Sept 5 weeks;
Oct 4 weeks, Nov 4 weeks and Dec 5 weeks.
3- it has fews exceptions for bisextil year, on Jan can have 5 weeks. Ex: on 2004
Thanks...
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And what do you need exactely ? Every calendar has the features you described, IMO. Do you need a Control, with UI ? Or a simple table or funcitonb that returns dates ? For which kind of app ? MFC ?
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i need a formula to create a financial calendar beside on standard one. I work with Progress v10.
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homework? 
regards,
mykel
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