I am developing a C++ Desktop application, and wondered what exactly I would need to do in order to add a button into the title bar of my application, and how to do it. I'm not really sure how to go about doing this.
I'm aiming to achieve something like the titlebar of the Windows File Explorer
or something like this
Any help would be appreciated!
First one requires Ribbon framework, there is also MFC and some third-party variants.
Second is some sort of Custom window frame implementation.
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I just started developing an MFC application for the first time and I'm hoping to get more familiar with the whole "controls" concept. I am using the dialog editor in visual studio and so far I was not able to find functionality to add a simple table/grid. It seems quite basic to me, but I can't even find reliable information on how to do it on the internet.
I am looking for something similar to Qt's QTableWidget, something that I can later program with variable amount of rows and columns tailored to my application's use cases.
Do you have any ideas how to do it?
I use CGridCtrl which is very powerful and does a lot of the legwork for you.
Sounds like you're after a List View Control, which is wrapped by MFC's CListCtrl class. The dialog editor will enable you to add one and set its properties.
I need to develop a search module for an mfc ribbon application using C++. I have used auto complete feature in C#.NET but never worked on any mfc ribbon application. I want auto complete search with an icon image as prefix of each suggestion, just like Facebook search. I have also consulted this article, but that uses CComboBox, I need to use CMFCRibbonCombobox in my program because I tried with CCombobox but that was causing problems. Any help will be appreciated.
you need to create your own CMFCRibbonComboBox derived class, that will be pretty much a copy of the CMFCRibbonFontCombBox without the fonts.to check how you draw the images you can check the CMFCRibbonFontComboBox::OnDrawDropListItem implementation.
Then I think that you will have to dynamicaly add it to the ribbon.
I would like to enable tabbing for my application. And so far it seems I could use a tab control. The problem with it is, though, that it creates a border around the client area. What I want, is more like a FireFox tab control, that only takes up a row in the application and doesn't create any frames around client area.
Does anyone know if it is possible with the default control?
I'm using MFC, but that shouldn't change things much I hope.
I'm pretty sure the tab control consists of two parts - the tab headers and the tab page. So you should be able to use the tab header only. It will take more work, but I think you can get what you want.
Look at CTabCtrl and CHeaderCtrl - will those do it? I've never customized them, but it seems possible.
There is also a CPropertySheet that's a good control. But so far it seems disabling and changing some things is simply impossible. No solution for the problem except full ownerdraw path.
I have visual studio 2008, and want to build an GUI application that on the left side has a frame that can be minimized like the firefox bookmark sidebar. So my questions are: 1) What type of project do I need? 2) What controls actually make up the sidebar. 3) What do I make the main frame so that I can resize it when the sidebar is open. A example would also be cool.
Thanks in advance.
CP
It looks like a TaskPane (CTaskPane ) attached to a simple SDI frame window (taking into account firefox is doing a lot of things custom with their own toolkit (I think, and I've been known to be wrong)
Download the MFC VS2008 feature pack (with the new UI controls) and the feature pack samples and have a look at some of the sample projects (for example "TaskPane" and "VisualStudioDemo"
Though often maligned, as Max pointed out, MFC provides CTaskBar, which is designed for exactly this sort of thing. What you have inside it looks a lot like a CTreeCtrl (or CTreeeView) with an associated CImageList to display the icons for the bookmarks. Resizing the mainframe while the sidebar is open is handled automatically. To create a project that includes this, select the "Visual Studio" application type (after choosing "MFC Application").
Just as a note for the record, I'm reasonably certain that FireFox does not actually use an MFC CTaskBar. FireFox's sidebar is quite limited by comparison -- it only allows one sidebar with one pane in one position. CTaskBar supports multiple task bars, that the user can rearrange at will, each of which can have multiple tiled and/or tabbed panes (and, for example, the user can not only move a complete task bar by dragging, but also drag panes between task bars, drag a pane out on its own to become a separate task bar, etc.
Note that nearly all of this is handled internally by MFC -- you simply create window classes for storing and drawing data in the panes, and it handles things like keeping track of where a pane is at the moment.
well, you can always download the source for FF here and have a look for yourself, you might find more than you expect ;). another good tool to remember is spy++(in VS), very useful for finding properties of windows etc
I want a detail grid kind of control in MFC, where on expanding each row of the grid an embedded dialog would appear for it (not a popup but inside the same parent control, inside which I can show other controls).
Can you please point me if there is any such existing library providing this kind of a control? Or else how to go about implementing it. I want to do it in C/C++, MFC, Win32.
Best,
Sourabh
You can try Codejock Xtreme Toolkit Pro (Link). I had the opportunity to use its Grid Control to create an excel like sheet in MFC. It was quite good for my needs.
Refer to this link, i think it has what you are looking for.
HTH