Discuss any Prof-UIS and GUI development-related issues

Hi,

I think I am asking you novice questions ! Please clarify the follow -

1) Does ProfUI 2.50 work for unicode configuration applications or only later versions support Unicode ?

2) Do we need to create ProfUI controls only at run time ? Can’t we create it at compile time ? If so, I want to use Visual Studio’s toolbox to drag and drop the controls onto dialog box. In this case, I create a control, say combo box through VS’s toolbox; but my code has CExtComboBox’s variable for which I add strings. Now, how does VS understand that the combo box created must be mapped to CExtComboBox ? I even used DDX_Control with combo box’s id with respective variable. But I don’t see any strings added to combo box when I run the app.

3) I saw in your portal that ProfUI’s seperate toolbox is provided. Is it not for FreeWare ?

4) I got the installable "95727-profuis250_trial.exe" for 2.5 version. But I realized after installation that very few include files are present in Include dir and ’Src’ folder has just few .h files and not source files. I was getting compiler errors (asking for remaining .h files) when building ProfUISLib project. As I had a different copy of 2.5 version (not installable, direct files ! ) I copied entire Include and Src folders after this installation. I just want to know if any thing went wrong there.

4) Here is a small sample prj (SampProfUI) that has just one combobox and an edit control in a dialog box :

4.1) SampProfUI.h

#pragma

once __AFXWIN_H__

#error "include ’stdafx.h’ before including this file for PCH"

#endif

#include

"resource.h" // main symbols

class

{

CSampProfUIApp : public CWinApp

public

CSampProfUIApp();

~CSampProfUIApp();

public

DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

};

4.2) SampProfUI.cpp

:virtual BOOL InitInstance();

// SampProfUI.cpp : Defines the class behaviors for the application.

#include

"stdafx.h"

#include

"SampProfUI.h"

#include

"SampProfUIDlg.h"

#ifdef

_DEBUG

#define

new DEBUG_NEW

#undef

THIS_FILE

static

char THIS_FILE[] = __FILE__;

#endif

#define

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSampProfUIApp, CWinApp)

ON_COMMAND(ID_HELP, CWinApp::OnHelp)

END_MESSAGE_MAP()

CSampProfUIApp::CSampProfUIApp()

{

}

CSampProfUIApp::~CSampProfUIApp()

{

}

CSampProfUIApp theApp;

BOOL CSampProfUIApp::InitInstance()

{

VERIFY( AfxOleInit() );

VERIFY( AfxInitRichEdit() );

free( (

m_pszProfileName = _tcsdup( _T(

ASSERT( m_pszProfileName != NULL );

VERIFY( g_CmdManager->ProfileSetup(m_pszProfileName) );

SetRegistryKey(_T(

ASSERT( m_pszRegistryKey != NULL );

CSampProfUIDlg dlg;

m_pMainWnd = &dlg;

dlg.DoModal();

}

4.3) SampProfUIDlg.h

CMD_PROFILE_NAME _T("SK-profile")if( m_pszProfileName != NULL )void*)m_pszProfileName );"SK_Sample_Controls") );"SK_Sample"));return FALSE;

#pragma

class

{

once CSampProfUIDlg : public CExtResizableDialog

public

DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CSampProfUIDlg)

CSampProfUIDlg(CWnd* pParent = NULL);

~CSampProfUIDlg();

:enum { IDD = IDD_SAMPPROFUI_DIALOG };protected:virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX); virtual LRESULT WindowProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

protected

HICON m_hIcon;

virtual

afx_msg

afx_msg HCURSOR OnQueryDragIcon();

DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL OnInitDialog();void OnPaint();

public

afx_msg

:void OnBnClickedOk();

private

CExtEdit m_Edit;

CExtComboBox m_Combo;

CString m_ComboStr;

public

afx_msg

};

:void OnBnClickedCancel();void OnCbnSelchangeCombo1();

4.4) SampProfUIDlg.cpp

// SampProfUIDlg.cpp : implementation file

#include

"stdafx.h"

#include

"SampProfUI.h"

#include

"SampProfUIDlg.h"

#ifdef

_DEBUG

#define

new DEBUG_NEW

#endif

IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CSampProfUIDlg, CExtResizableDialog)

CSampProfUIDlg::CSampProfUIDlg(CWnd* pParent )

: CExtResizableDialog(CSampProfUIDlg::IDD, pParent)

{

m_hIcon = AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDR_MAINFRAME);

}

CSampProfUIDlg::~CSampProfUIDlg()

{

}

void

{

CExtResizableDialog ::DoDataExchange(pDX);

DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_EDIT1, m_Edit);

DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_COMBO1, m_Combo);

}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CSampProfUIDlg, CExtResizableDialog)

ON_WM_PAINT()

ON_WM_QUERYDRAGICON()

ON_BN_CLICKED(IDOK, &CSampProfUIDlg::OnBnClickedOk)

ON_BN_CLICKED(IDCANCEL, &CSampProfUIDlg::OnBnClickedCancel)

ON_CBN_SELCHANGE(IDC_COMBO1, &CSampProfUIDlg::OnCbnSelchangeCombo1)

END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BOOL CSampProfUIDlg::OnInitDialog()

{

ASSERT( FALSE );

}

SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE);

SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE);

CSampProfUIDlg::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)if (!CExtResizableDialog ::OnInitDialog())return FALSE;

m_Combo.AddString(

}

"Ramakrishna");"Kishan Rao");"Rama");"Saritha");"Shobitha");return TRUE;

void

{

CPaintDC dc(

CExtMemoryDC dcExt(&dc);

SendMessage(WM_ICONERASEBKGND,

CRect rect;

GetClientRect(&rect);

dcExt.DrawIcon(x, y, m_hIcon);

}

CSampProfUIDlg::OnPaint()if (IsIconic())this); reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(dcExt.GetSafeHdc()), 0);int cxIcon = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXICON);int cyIcon = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYICON);int x = (rect.Width() - cxIcon + 1) / 2;int y = (rect.Height() - cyIcon + 1) / 2;else

{

CExtResizableDialog ::OnPaint();

}

HCURSOR CSampProfUIDlg::OnQueryDragIcon()

{

}

LRESULT CSampProfUIDlg::WindowProc(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

{

LRESULT lResult = CExtResizableDialog :: WindowProc( message, wParam, lParam );

}

return static_cast<HCURSOR>(m_hIcon);return lResult;

void

{

CString str;

m_Edit.GetWindowText(str);

AfxMessageBox(str);

AfxMessageBox(m_ComboStr);

}

CSampProfUIDlg::OnBnClickedOk()

void

{

CExtResizableDialog::OnCancel();

}

CSampProfUIDlg::OnBnClickedCancel()

void

{

CString temp;

m_Combo.GetLBText(iComboSelInd, temp );

m_ComboStr =

m_ComboStr.Append(temp);

}

CSampProfUIDlg::OnCbnSelchangeCombo1()int iComboSelInd = m_Combo.GetCurSel();"You selected : " ;

4.5) stdafx.h

#pragma

#ifndef

once _SECURE_ATL

#define

_SECURE_ATL 1

#endif

#ifndef

VC_EXTRALEAN

#define

VC_EXTRALEAN

#endif

#ifndef

WINVER

#define

WINVER 0x0501

#endif

#ifndef

_WIN32_WINNT

#define

_WIN32_WINNT 0x0501

#endif

#ifndef

_WIN32_WINDOWS

#define

_WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0410

#endif

#ifndef

_WIN32_IE

#define

_WIN32_IE 0x0600

#endif

#define

_ATL_CSTRING_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS

#define

_AFX_ALL_WARNINGS

#include

<afxwin.h>

#include

<afxext.h>

#include

<afxdisp.h>

#ifndef

_AFX_NO_OLE_SUPPORT

#include

<afxdtctl.h>

#endif

#ifndef

_AFX_NO_AFXCMN_SUPPORT

#include

<afxcmn.h>

#endif

#include

<Prof-UIS.h>

#ifdef

_UNICODE

#if defined _M_IX86

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type=’win32’ name=’Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls’ version=’6.0.0.0’ processorArchitecture=’x86’ publicKeyToken=’6595b64144ccf1df’ language=’*’\"")

#elif defined _M_IA64

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type=’win32’ name=’Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls’ version=’6.0.0.0’ processorArchitecture=’ia64’ publicKeyToken=’6595b64144ccf1df’ language=’*’\"")

#elif defined _M_X64

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type=’win32’ name=’Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls’ version=’6.0.0.0’ processorArchitecture=’amd64’ publicKeyToken=’6595b64144ccf1df’ language=’*’\"")

#else

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type=’win32’ name=’Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls’ version=’6.0.0.0’ processorArchitecture=’*’ publicKeyToken=’6595b64144ccf1df’ language=’*’\"")

#endif

I think I am running short of time for my project and I am strucked at the very initial stage! Can you please guide me step-by-step how to create an exe (Static-Static for EXE build configuration) ? I want to create controls through Visual Studio IDE (tool box) and if possible I want to totally avoid run time creation of controls .

Eagerly looking for the response.

Regards

Swetha Kishan

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