I just wondering how Windows create this window?
I mean what styles applied to that window, I just want these styles on my project.
As info I use MS Visual C++ 2008.
Thanks
There's no easy way! There's no public API for using "the Windows 8 style", or the style of any other release. You'll just have to replicate it by hand, comparing it pixel-for-pixel against a screenshot. Then update your application with the next release of Windows!
Because they change the metrics of these sorts of dialogs with each release, they can't produce a public library for "system-themed dialogs", because Microsoft would then be unable to change the design for fear of breaking someone's application that maybe uses a bit too much text, for example.
Related
I am coding a C++ project using MFC in Visual Studio (v16.5.4). The dialog editor seems badly broken on my HiDPI monitor (Lenovo ThinkVision 2880x1800 at 175%). It works fine on two other computers with standard monitors.
The dialogs get resized apparently randomly, and controls do not move correctly when I try to edit them. When I try to align controls the dotted selection rectangle may move, but the control often does not (in the editor). Sometimes, re-opening the editor shows that the control has in fact moved. When I build the project, the final display layout cannot be predicted from what appears in the resource editor.
I reported this to Microsoft using Visual Studio feedback, but they closed the report, saying it was "By design"!!!! They posted a link describing a feature which disables HiDPI awareness, but the link was for the Windows Forms Designer, not the MFC resource editor - there is no equivalent feature in the latter that I could find.
Does anyone else have this problem, or know of a decent work-around? At the moment I am transferring to my other computer with the standard display whenever I need to edit a dialog, which is monumentally inefficient for quite a large project.
I know this is an older post, but I thought what I found might help someone. I experienced the same issue today. It just happens that I have one monitor setup for 125% and one setup for 100%. The MFC dialog editor alignment operations do not work correctly on the 125% monitor but work fine on the 100% monitor. It would appear Microsoft isn't properly handling DPI in the dialog editor.
I have an old style MFC MDI application. Now that VS 2010 has included a ribbon in VC++, I would like to upgrade my application with MFC ribbons. I also would like to give the user an option to retain the old style if he prefers to. That is the user should be able to switch between the classic view and the modern ribbon view while the application is running. Could you help me with achieving this please?
Many thanks.
There is on best walkthrough given by MSDN Walkthrough: Updating the MFC Scribble Application which may help you else provide your code or where exactly you are stuck.
I have never used MFC so far. I'd like to learn how creating a simple tabcontrol in a SDI application. I'am looking for a very beginner guide or a tutorial? Could you help me?
Thanks
I've not installed it on this machine, but as far as i remember, there is a wizard alowing you to create a dialog-based TabCtrl-Application. You could get all you ned to know from htere. Also you may find this Link useful:
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/controls/controls/tabcontrols/article.php/c5239/Creating-a-CTabCtrl-Application.htm
Please bear in mind that the TabCtrl is just the tabs, not the space they show – this is a window that you have to make visible, so the usual approach is a couple of windows with the same screen location and the tabctrl makes one visible and hides the others by clicking on it.
I am writing a C++ application and I have a Login Box that's shown in a regular Dialog Box Frame. I see that some people can SKIN the entire dialog box and makes it look really nice. I was wondering if anyone can give me some pointers as to how to do that.
I'd need more details to give you a good answer.
The answer very much depends on which OS you're using and how you're programming your GUI (for example on Windows - plain Win32, MFC, ATL, Qt, Windows Forms, WPF etc etc).
If you're just using the Windows API here's a link to get you started.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/skinstyle.aspx
Beware: custom skinning dialog boxes can be a very large task if you want to customise the look of every control as you end up writing very complicated custom controls.
Alternatively do you just want to make sure that your dialogs appear with Windows XP visual style rather than pre-XP style? This will require changes to your application to use the new common controls and visual style. Note that this changes the behaviour of some Windows APIs and can potentially have side effects (see ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED).
I am trying to create a TitleAreaDialog using WTL or Windows SDK (please no MFC).
From the google I am able to find these two links:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/dialogheader.aspx (MFC article)
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/taskdialogs.aspx (doubtful.. how to use it)
The desired output is like the eclipse JFace TitleAreaDialog (see the below image).
Kindly suggest a way to do this using sing WTL or Windows SDK (with c++).
Thanks
Finally able to solve it using the Dialog Header link. Just went through the code twice or may be thrice :) and then ported it for WTL.
There is another very good example in pure c++/win sdk:
xmessagebox. Its about replacing default windows messagebox with something good (although there is a mode which uses title area + icon).
If working for vista or greater and just want to grab very basic information via checkboxes, radio buttons etc then have a look at this: Vista_TaskDialog_Wrapper and VGTaskDialog