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The problem is that hiding the hotkeys is the default behavior in Windows 2000/XP (so the users don't "want it", they just don't know any better). We also have hundreds of clients who are relatively computer illiterate, and think they can't use the keyboard to access all buttons (which they can).
Since hotkeys are always visible in Office, Outlook, Mozilla, and many other applications under XP/2000, it is difficult to believe that Microsoft and others are spending the time to create new controls or owner drawn windows just to enable hotkeys to be visible ... seems more likely that there is an application setting somewhere.
Thoughts?
Josh Lindenmuth
Paytime, Inc.
jlindenmuth@paytimepayroll.com
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Josh Lindenmuth wrote:
it is difficult to believe that Microsoft and others are spending the time to create new controls or owner drawn windows just to enable hotkeys to be visible
Microsoft seem to have a team that redesign the UI in order to keep us all on our toes playing catchup. They are always changing the GUI style.
I guess Mozilla uses open source cross platform libraries and therefore does not look for the particular windows settings.
Ant.
I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Williams (Little Britain)
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Josh Lindenmuth wrote:
...it is difficult to believe that Microsoft and others are spending the time to create new controls or owner drawn windows just to enable hotkeys to be visible...
Actually, it's all too plausible. Just look at the new menu styles, the flat look brought in by
Encarta, etc. The underlining bit is probably incidental.
There is nothing to stop your application calling SystemParameterInfo (SPI_SETKEYBOARDCUES, ...).
But this could be in your options page, with a note above it warning that it has an effect on all programs.
Or, when the program is first run, or at installation, detect the setting and ask if the user wants
to change it. And so on.
My company supplies PC with my software preinstalled. So it is the reason that PC exists. So I don't
have to be a good software citizen. But it would annoy me as an end user if software I installed
unilaterally overrode my settings. Prompting me that changing them may improve my experience is a
valid compromise...
Iain.
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This is a user-configured thing (i.e., what would the user think if an application came along and overruled their UI settings).
You've probably already found this, but right-click the desktop and select Properties. Click the Effects tab. Un/check the "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt key" checkbox.
"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen
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Hi guys!
I'm looking for a quicktime expert (or C++) who tell me how I can get the header of a Quicktime movie File. I know that The movie header is inside a QTAtom named MovieDirectory but I don't know how access to that atom starting from the movie File.
I'm using the QT6SDK. There is a GetMoviePropertyAtom function but I didn't understand what this function really do.
Thanks a lot for your help (if you can....).
Mokkari
P.S. I'm sorry for my english. I know it isn't very good.
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hi gang!
am wondering if win32 memory mapping using "CreateFileMapping" ,"MapViewOfFile" ,"OpenFileMapping" ...
is thread safe or not ?
i mapped a queue in the file mapping section and i must know if this section is syncronized by default or i've to sync it manually .
please give me u'r clues .
many thanks in advance !
network security programmer from middle east!
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Short answer is no.
Its not any more thread safe than un-file-mapped memory. The only real difference is that
your changes are occasionally flushed to a file, and that it can be reflected in memory
in another process.
On another note, if you are using the mapped memory between processes, then any variables
in it that are pointers are unlikely to be valid in the other process. So a queue may
be dangerous, depending on how you've implemented it.
You can get around the synchronisation problems by using named synch objects in both processes.
Iain.
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hi,
i want help:
i want to make an Address Book for the MS-Outlook to use it from a customized message form.
i made a personal form to send an sms`s using the same form of new message.
any way, the Address Book i`m trying to make is an Address Book that will just show the contacts whom have a mobile phone number in there properties,
will u plz help me, i can`t know where to start from, or how.
thanx alot
i hope to hear from u soon.
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Dear Friends,
Sometime my application gives an error and an abnormal error dialog box gets created and immediately after that my application closes. Also some time my application hungs-up.
I am not able to find out the actual error because usually it never happens but sometime it happens and that is why it is not easy to track errors.
1. Thus please tell me how to create a log file to track of each operation.
2. Also I would like to track few errors like access violation, abnormal error window generation.
As I am also unable to get the exact error so I cannot give any more idea abt errors so it may help if I can create a log file or can track few errors as specified.
Thus please help me to find out the solution.
Also please write to me whether I can make my program to generate a particular error to check whether my preventive measures are working properly.
I am new to VC++ and at present I am unable to find any solution of it. Although I find a function say GetLastError(), but how to use it, to a particular error, I am not getting........I think WM_ENABLE message may also help me in case of hung-up but how to add this message to class wizard?
Thus please help me to find the solution...
Thanking You in advance.
Billar
 
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Hi guys,
I ve got a question, a stupid question maybe...
I m making a DLL, with oviously heaps of functions in it. I would like to have a static variable (something that could be modified my some functions). I was wondering if there is nothing dodgy in creating a static variable in a DLL. Since, I dunno how and when exactly the DLL is loaded and unloaded. Is it reloaded each time a function gets called? It s a bit fuzzy to me.
Maybe there is nothing special in this but I just wanted to be sure..
Thank u 4 ur help...
sysy
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There are ways a DLL can be loaded.
1/ Implicitly. This is the usual way. It happens if you link to the DLL when you are creating
your EXE. When the DLL is loaded, the DllMain function is called, and static variables in
that module (DLL) are initialed. This happens once for each process. See DllMain for
more detail.
2/ Explicitly. This happens at runtime, by the SDK function LoadLibrary.
There are articles on codeproject about DLLs for beginners. I would recommend looking there.
Iain.
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Hi,
Does anyone know what the most efficient method is for copying a large list or vector of data (about 25000 elements)?
cheers,
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I guess that depends on what you mean by copying. If you're talking about duplicating the elements in other list/vector of the same type, then for lists I don't think you can do better than:
std::list<int> l1;
...
std::list<int> l2;
l2=l1; As for vectors, you can be a little smarter:
std::vector<int> v1;
...
std::vector<int> v2;
v2.reserve(v1.size());
v2=v1; Hope this helps.
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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cheers Joaquín for replying. Just so I've understood correctly all I need to do is
list1 = list2
and then list1 will have copies of all of the elements in list2 and then any changes I do in either list will not be reflected in the other list? If so this is a lot easier than the method I implemented!!! (I went through the list in a while loop and then copied each element, not very efficient)
thanks,
Andy
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Just so I've understood correctly all I need to do is
list1 = list2
and then list1 will have copies of all of the elements in list2 and then any changes I do in either list will not be reflected in the other list?
Correct.
If so this is a lot easier than the method I implemented!!! (I went through the list in a while loop and then copied each element, not very efficient)
I don't want to dissapoint you, but basically the internals of list1 = list2 do the same kind of loop that you were using, so don't expect any performance improvement 
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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It works fine when I compile under VC 6.0 but when I convert the project to a VC .NET "solution", the following line will return a NULL pointer:
Code:
CWnd* pWnd = GetParent()->GetDlgItem(edt1);
Any helps? Thanks.
mIchAel Liu
__________________________________________________________
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. 
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Break the question into steps.
Does GetParent () actually return the window
you are expecting?
Is edt1 still valid? Did you assign a number to
it that no longer matches the ID of the control you are
trying to access?
Is that control actually being created? You can check this
using spy++ etc to see if it (a) exists, and (b) has the
right ID.
Etc.
Iain.
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Hi All,
I am new in vc++.
I would like to send data from one dialog box to one property page.
My question is:-
A property sheet contains two-page (Cpage1 and Cpage 2).
Page1 contains one command button(btnClick) and one text box(nText1).When I press btnClcik , it calls a dialog box(Cdlg) and dialog box contains one text box(nText2) and on Command Button(btnOK).
NOW, I would like to enter integer type value in the text box(ntext2) and then press the btnOK of dialog box.
Then entered value should be shown in the textbox(nText1) of Page1(Cpage).
How to do this.
Regards
Rajesh,
rajesh
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The Cdlg class should have an int member variable. After the call to DoModal(), simply access this member variable. Something like:
class Cdlg : public CDialog
{
public:
int var;
};
page1:onbtnclick()
{
Cdlg dlg;
dlg.DoModal();
int var = dlg.var;
}
"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen
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Hi !
I'm facing a problem and I'm sure you'll be able to help me !
In my app, I have a class which represents a path (meaning : a path you can follow to go from A to B). This class (Path) is made of any number of Segments, which can be straight or curved.
Thus, apart from the class 'Path', I created a base class called 'Segment' and two classes derived from 'Segment' : 'StraightSergment' and 'ArcSegment'.
The 'Path' class contains a list of 'Segment's.
I want to serialize a Path into a string. Thus, I have a method 'toString' which will in turn call, for each segment, their own 'toString' function. As 'Segment' is an abstract class, it will actually call either 'StraightSegment::toString' or 'ArcSegment::toString'. So far so good.
class Path
{
public:
...
string toString();
void fromString(string Source);
...
private:
list_of_segments MyList;
};
class Segment
{
virtual string toString() = 0;
virtual void fromString(string Source) = 0;
};
class StraightSegment : public Segment
{
string toString();
void fromString(string Source);
};
class ArcSegment : public Segment
{
string toString();
void fromString(string Source);
};
I have a problem when I need to materialize a 'Path' from a string : Before calling 'fromString' function from either 'StraightSegment' or 'ArcSegment', I have to decide which kind of segment it is. Where should I do this ? In the 'Segment' base class ? The problem is that 'Segment' would have to know each classes derived from it. Should I do it into another class ? The problem then would be that the 'Path' class would have to know another class than just 'Segment'.
Well, what do you suggest me ? Which solution is the best ? Are there any better solutions ?
Thank you for your help !
Jerome
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You could have something like:
#include "BootStrap.h"
class Segment
{
...
public:
static Segment *FromString (CString s);
...
protected:
virtual BOOL DoesThisStringMatchMe (CString s) = 0;
virtual BOOL ProcessTheStrings (CString s)
DECLARE_ROOT_CLASS(CBaseFilter)
};
So the Path object knows nothing about different segments.
If you read the article Enumerate your leaf classes it gives
a good explanation of how you can go through each descendant
of Segment
Segment *FromString (CString s)
{
int nType, nTypes = GetRegisteredManufactoringPlantCount();
Segment *pGuess = NULL;
for (nType = 0; nType < nTypes; nType++)
{
CBootStrapper<CBaseFilter>* pBoot = GetRegisteredManufactoringPlant(nIdx);
pGuess = pBoot->CreateObject ();
if (pGuess->DoesThisStringMatchMe (s))
break;
delete pGuess;
pGuess = NULL;
}
if (!pGuess)
return NULL;
pGuess->ProcessString (s);
return pGuess;
}
This hasn't been compiled, obviously, and you'll need to read Jaded Hobos article for
details, but I've used this method in the past. You'll see my comment on his article!
Good luck,
Iain.
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Dear Friends,
Sometime my application gives an error and an abnormal error dialog box generates and then my application shuts down. Some time it may happen that my application hung-up.
Although presently I don't any such kind of error but I would like to track such kind of errors and wish to do some preventive measures accordingly in abnormal cases. Will you please tell me how to track error messages in MFC.
Also please write to me whether I can make my program to generate a particular error to check whether my preventive measures are working properly.
I am new to VC++ and at present I am unable to find any solution for it. Although I find a function say GetLastError(), but how to use it, to a particular error, I am not getting........I think WM_ENABLE message may also help me in case of hung-up but how to add this message to class wizard.
Thus please help me to find the solution...
Thanking You in advance.
Billar
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A quick question.
Does anyone know if a given stl iterator[^], say for a std::vector, remains valid throughout the lifetime of that vector?
I'm having some problem accessing an object stored in a vector via an iterator. The iterator was initialised at at some point in my program, but when I come to access the object through the iterator at a later stage, it fails
To clarify, if I set an iterator like:
vector<obj*>::iterator ite = myvec.begin() + 4;
Will ite, my iterator, remain valid as long as the vector variable is not modified?
I Dream of Absolute Zero
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