Re: Visual indication (Red, green) - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 5:02

31-Aug-07 5:02

A picture control is one way. You could use two icons - one red, one green -
and set the control's icon appropriately.

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

__yash__31-Aug-07 5:38

__yash__

31-Aug-07 5:38

could you please elaborate on it? i m not famaliar with using icons on front-end....

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 5:48

Mark Salsbery

31-Aug-07 5:48

yashveer wrote:
could you please elaborate on it?

Sure. Are you using MFC or straight Win32?

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

__yash__31-Aug-07 5:49

__yash__

31-Aug-07 5:49

MFC

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 6:13

Mark Salsbery

31-Aug-07 6:13

Here's some of the operations involved:

Add 2 icons to your app's resources - here I'll assume they are custom size
10x10 icons, with IDs IDI_INDICATORRED and IDI_INDICATORGREEN.
Draw the icons the way you want them to look.

Then...

// Add as member of window or dialog class
CStatic m_IndicatorStatic;
...

// In OnCreate() (for a window implementation) or OnInitDialog() (for a dialog implementation)...
//   (for a dialog, if the picture control is a resource on the dialog, and m_IndicatorStatic is already
//     associated with the control, then don't do the Create() call)

//  (Adjust passed CRect to properly position control in window's client area)
if (m_IndicatorStatic.Create(NULL, WS_CHILD | SS_ICON, CRect(0,0,10,10), this, ID_INDICATORSTATIC))
{
   m_IndicatorStatic.SetIcon((HICON)::LoadImage(AfxGetResourceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_INDICATORRED), IMAGE_ICON, 10, 10, LR_SHARED));
}
...

// Later...Change the indicator to green
m_IndicatorStatic.SetIcon((HICON)::LoadImage(AfxGetResourceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_INDICATORGREEN), IMAGE_ICON, 10, 10, LR_SHARED));

Hope that helps a bit!
Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

__yash__31-Aug-07 6:24

__yash__

31-Aug-07 6:24

// Add as member of window or dialog class
CStatic m_IndicatorStatic;

where do i add this IDI_ICON1 as CStatic m_IndicatorStatic?
I tried in class wizard but didnt find this ID....

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 6:30

Mark Salsbery

31-Aug-07 6:30

In the properties for resources, you should be able to change the ID to whatever you want.

IDI_ICON1 sounds like the default ID - you can use that as well. It's just not as meaningful in the
code as an ID that's more descriptive.

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

__yash__31-Aug-07 6:34

__yash__

31-Aug-07 6:34

changing the ID is fine but that's not my point.....my point is:
once i change the ID name to whatever ...IDI_ICON1 or IDI_ICONREDBUTTON, after that how do i associate it with the variable
CStatic m_IndicatorStatic , as i didnt find any Icon in class wizard

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 6:40

Mark Salsbery

31-Aug-07 6:40

I showed an example of setting a picture control's (which is a static control) icon
at runtime. "m_IndicatorStatic.SetIcon(..."

The icon is the picture. The static control is what draws the picture.

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

__yash__31-Aug-07 6:47

__yash__

31-Aug-07 6:47

My view class is derived from CRecordView(). And I have a socket event, OnConnect() where i would like to display Red icon. Similarly on OnClose() it would display Green Icon in place of the Red one. Also my project is SDI application.
How can this be done??

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Mark Salsbery31-Aug-07 7:46

Mark Salsbery

31-Aug-07 7:46

I showed code to set the control's icon. You can do that wherever you want.
Just set the control's icon to the appropriate one.

Depending on where you get the socket event notification, you may need to post a message
to the appropriate window containing the control.

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Visual indication (Red, green)

Cedric Moonen31-Aug-07 6:15

Cedric Moonen

31-Aug-07 6:15

Maybe that[^] would help ? I know that there are some other controls so if you search through the articles, you'll probably find some more.

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

Charting control [v1.2]

help

youbo31-Aug-07 4:07

youbo

31-Aug-07 4:07

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int oo(int m);
int sum=0;
void main()
{
int m;
cin>>m;

oo(m);
abc:
cout<

Re: help

Maximilien31-Aug-07 4:10

Maximilien

31-Aug-07 4:10

oo or OO ?

Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Re: help

Russell^'31-Aug-07 4:11

Russell^'

31-Aug-07 4:11

Russell

Re: help

youbo31-Aug-07 4:20

youbo

31-Aug-07 4:20

they are the same maybe...

Re: help

Russell^'31-Aug-07 4:23

Russell^'

31-Aug-07 4:23

Little tips for coding:
1) use longer names for varaibles and functions (this helps to understand what the code do)
2) do not use goto OMG | :OMG:

... find other ways when possible: in your case you can return -1; or something similar

Big Grin | :-D

Russell

Re: help

Roger Broomfield31-Aug-07 5:45

Roger Broomfield

31-Aug-07 5:45

having been brought up from coding raw hex on an 8080 SDK through Assembler and on into C and C++ I have no qualms about using goto. goto is after all just a JMP return -1 is also a JMP. break is also a JMP.

why are you threatened by goto?

Re: help

David Crow31-Aug-07 5:54

David Crow

31-Aug-07 5:54

Because you don't goto the middle of another function.

"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Re: help

Roger Broomfield31-Aug-07 6:02

Roger Broomfield

31-Aug-07 6:02

obviously you have never disassembled BIOS. JMPing into the middle of functions is common practice in every BIOS I have ever disassembled.

Re: help

Russell^'31-Aug-07 6:14

Russell^'

31-Aug-07 6:14

are that BIOSs work?
Laugh | :laugh:

Russell

Re: help

David Crow31-Aug-07 6:55

David Crow

31-Aug-07 6:55

Last time I checked, Roger, we were discussing a C program.

"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Re: help

Russell^'31-Aug-07 5:57

Russell^'

31-Aug-07 5:57

I wrote "....when possible..." Wink | ;)

It is a bad pratique (for me). It is demonstrated that we can do everything without the use that keyword.
Of course I use it (sometimes)....but I'm not a newbie like him Big Grin | :-D

First you have to learn how make addictions by hand....and after that you can use the calculator Smile | :)

Russell

Re: help

Rajesh R Subramanian31-Aug-07 8:04

Rajesh R Subramanian

31-Aug-07 8:04

http://xkcd.com/292/[^] Poke tongue | ;-P

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->ßRÅhmmÃ<-·´¯`·.

Re: help

Russell^'31-Aug-07 8:21

Russell^'

31-Aug-07 8:21

He wins a Nobel: he create a time machine!
From today, I'll use gotos more often. Big Grin | :-D

Russell

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