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Re: Retrieving handle to the active MDI child window

3-Apr-02 3:26

GetActiveWindow()

Returns the handle to the window that has the current input.

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AmarB3-Apr-02 3:37

AmarB

3-Apr-02 3:37

I´ve done this before but this always returning NULL.
Any ideas?

Re: Retrieving handle to the active MDI child window

alex.barylski3-Apr-02 3:48

Re: Retrieving handle to the active MDI child window

3-Apr-02 3:48

GetActiveWindow() - MSDN

The active window or NULL if no window was active at the time of the call. The pointer may be temporary and should not be stored for later use.

Try setting the window's active state explicity with SetActiveWindow() somewhere in your code and then try GetActiveWindow() see what happens...

If it's a temporary pointer...you only wanna use it right after the call to GetActiveWindow(), is this perhaps causing your problem...?

I dunno why it would fail...other than what the above states.

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3-Apr-02 3:58

CMDIFrameWnd::MDIGetActive() should do the trick.

Re: Retrieving handle to the active MDI child window

3-Apr-02 6:13

You could try sending the WM_MDIGETACTIVE to the MDIClient window.

Icons in a Listctrl with owner draw fixed style

Cris3-Apr-02 2:58

Cris

3-Apr-02 2:58

Is possible insert icons in a ListCtrl with owner draw fixed style ? How ?

Thanks ...
Cristiano

Re: Icons in a Listctrl with owner draw fixed style

alex.barylski3-Apr-02 3:30

remove item from std::list

3-Apr-02 3:30

I don't see why not, however you'd have to handle to the drawing of the icons.

Your associating the icons with a CImageList, not the actual CListCtrl itself.

You'd have to get the image out of the imagelist and draw it to the DC passed to you in the DrawItem().

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events problem....

Neha3-Apr-02 2:53

Neha

3-Apr-02 2:53

Hi,
I will set one event,if i call a messagebox after that everything works fine.Otherwise it hangs in waitforsingleobject().
I don't want to show any message box.so i did get/PostMessage+DispatchMessage.
It doesn't work..
Can anyone pl help me...
Neha

3-Apr-02 2:46

when i try to remove an item from a list inside of the loop it crashes.

here is my code:

list <sometype>::iterator i;
for (i=mylist.begin(); i!=mylist.end(); i++) {
    if (...) {
        mylist.erase(i);
    }
}

C^hris L^osinger3-Apr-02 3:11

C^hris L^osinger

3-Apr-02 3:11

if you want to be STL-friendly, use list::remove_if (see MSDN for a sample)

(the rest of the incorrect crap i posted earlier has been removed, to protect my good name)

-c

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Christian Graus3-Apr-02 9:47

Christian Graus

3-Apr-02 9:47

Chris Losinger wrote:
erase invalidates all iterators.

For std::list - are you *sure* ? My first reaction is that this is true of vector, but not list.

Remove_if is obviously a better way to go though Smile | :)

Christian

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C^hris L^osinger3-Apr-02 9:56

C^hris L^osinger

3-Apr-02 9:56

now that you've forced me to look it up... i'm sure i was wrong.

but, that was the explanation for the crash that sounded best. if that wasn't it, maybe there was something wrong with calling the destructor for the object in the list. yuk.

-c

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"Madam, I don't care if you burn."
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3-Apr-02 3:47

Your iterator gets invalid. Do:
list <sometype>::iterator i;
for (i=mylist.begin(); i!=mylist.end(); i++)
{
if (...) {
i = mylist.erase(i);
}
}
and your iterator will be right on track.

Printing with MS Word Automation

Jack Handy3-Apr-02 4:46

Jack Handy

3-Apr-02 4:46

I beleive this is correct however you should also do i--; after the erase() call because erase() returns the next iterator and it will get ++'d at the top of the loop therefore skipping the item after the one you erased. Hope this makes sense.

-Jack

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To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

3-Apr-02 1:59

I've made a MS Word automation project in order to print it's content
into Acrobat Distiller.
I want to print 3 pages (nPages = 3).

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, my method is :

void _Document::PrintOut(VARIANT* Background,
VARIANT* Append,
VARIANT* Range,
VARIANT* OutputFileName,
VARIANT* From,
VARIANT* To,
VARIANT* Item,
VARIANT* Copies,
VARIANT* Pages,
VARIANT* PageType,
VARIANT* PrintToFile,
VARIANT* Collate,
VARIANT* ActivePrinterMacGX,
VARIANT* ManualDuplexPrint,
VARIANT* PrintZoomColumn,
VARIANT* PrintZoomRow,
VARIANT* PrintZoomPaperWidth,
VARIANT* PrintZoomPaperHeight )
{
static BYTE parms[] =
VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT
VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT
VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT
VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT VTS_PVARIANT;
InvokeHelper(0x1bc, DISPATCH_METHOD, VT_EMPTY, NULL, parms, Background,
Append, Range, OutputFileName, From, To, Item, Copies, Pages, PageType,
PrintToFile, Collate, ActivePrinterMacGX, ManualDuplexPrint, PrintZoomColumn,
PrintZoomRow, PrintZoomPaperWidth, PrintZoomPaperHeight);
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And, the following call to this method produces an exception, cause of COleVariant(nPages,VT_I4)

CString text;
m_Edit.GetWindowText(text);

_Application objWord;
// Convenient values declared as ColeVariants.
COleVariant covTrue((short)TRUE),
covFalse((short)FALSE),
covOptional((long)DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND, VT_ERROR);
// Get the IDispatch pointer and attach it to the objWord object.
if (!objWord.CreateDispatch("Word.Application"))
{
AfxMessageBox("Couldn't get Word object.");
return;
}
objWord.SetVisible(TRUE); //This shows the application.
Documents docs(objWord.GetDocuments());
_Document testDoc;
testDoc.AttachDispatch(docs.Open
(
COleVariant(text,VT_BSTR),
covFalse, // Confirm Conversion.
covFalse, // ReadOnly.
covFalse, // AddToRecentFiles.
covOptional, // PasswordDocument.
covOptional, // PasswordTemplate.
covFalse, // Revert.
covOptional, // WritePasswordDocument.
covOptional, // WritePasswordTemplate.
covOptional, covOptional, covOptional), // Format. // Last argument for Word 97
(long)1 // Encoding // New for Word 2000/2002
); // Close AttachDispatch(.)

objWord.SetActivePrinter("Acrobat Distiller");

long nPages = 3;
SCODE sc;
TRY
{
testDoc.PrintOut(covFalse, // Background.
covOptional, // Append.
covOptional, // Range.
covOptional, // OutputFileName.
covOptional, // From.
covOptional, // To.
covOptional, // Item.
covOptional, // Copies.
COleVariant(nPages,VT_I4), // Pages.
covOptional, // PageType.
covOptional, // PrintToFile.
covOptional, // Collate.
covOptional, // ActivePrinterMacGX.
covOptional, // ManualDuplexPrint.
covOptional, // PrintZoomColumn New with Word 2002
covOptional, // PrintZoomRow ditto
covOptional, // PrintZoomPaperWidth ditto
covOptional); // PrintZoomPaperHeight ditto

objWord.Quit(covFalse, // SaveChanges.
covTrue, // OriginalFormat.
covFalse // RouteDocument.
);
sc = S_OK;
}

CATCH_ALL(e)
{
sc = COleException::Process(e);
CString exp;
exp.Format("%d", e);
MessageBox(exp, "Exception !");
}
END_CATCH_ALL

How can i do ?
Thanks.
Frown | :(

String -> char *

Chris Coote3-Apr-02 1:57

Chris Coote

3-Apr-02 1:57

How would you get from a managed string to an unmannaged char array? I know there must be a more elegant way to get from point A to point B than:

sName - String
mcName - Char __gc[]
cName - char* (allocated for 256;Assert sName.Length <= 255)

mcName = sName->ToCharArray();
for(int j=0;j<mcname->Count;j++)
cName[j]=Convert::ToSByte(mcName[j]);
cName[mcName->Count]='\0';

App wants to know: Is cursor off me now?

Rickard Andersson²⁰3-Apr-02 1:36

Rickard Andersson²⁰

3-Apr-02 1:36

I want to catch when the mouse is leaving a button.

When the mouse is or, I want to show a text in a static when the mouse is ovedr the button. And then the mouse is leaving the static will show another text. HOOOW!!!

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Rickard Andersson, Suza Computing
ICQ#: 50302279
I'm from the winter country SWEDEN!

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Mazdak3-Apr-02 1:47

Mazdak

3-Apr-02 1:47

Subclass frmom CButton and overriden <coe>WM_MOUSEMOVE.

Mazy

"The path you tread is narrow and the drop is shear and very high,
The ravens all are watching from a vantage point near by,
Apprehension creeping like a choo-train uo your spine,
Will the tightrope reach the end;will the final cuplet rhyme?"Cymbaline-Pink Floyd

Rickard Andersson²⁰3-Apr-02 1:50

Rickard Andersson²⁰

3-Apr-02 1:50

Yes, and how to know if the mouse is leaving the button!??

Thats the problemo dude! Big Grin | :-D

------------------------------------
Rickard Andersson, Suza Computing
ICQ#: 50302279
I'm from the winter country SWEDEN!

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Mazdak3-Apr-02 1:55

Mazdak

3-Apr-02 1:55

I'm not sure but test this one:

WM_CAPTURECHANGED

Mazy

"The path you tread is narrow and the drop is shear and very high,
The ravens all are watching from a vantage point near by,
Apprehension creeping like a choo-train uo your spine,
Will the tightrope reach the end;will the final cuplet rhyme?"Cymbaline-Pink Floyd

alex.barylski3-Apr-02 3:13

3-Apr-02 3:13

Chris has a cool CButton derived class demonstarting subclassing...perfect example of tracking mouse entrance and departure.

Custom Button

Cheers!

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