I have a member of CWnd class name mywindow
and i want to add to it a scroll-bar.
how i can do it?
i try already to do:
mywindow.EnableScrollBarCtrl(SB_BOTH,TRUE);
it display both Horizontal and Vertical scroll-bars,
but i cannot push the buttons or move the scroll-bars.
i try also after the first command:
mywindow.EnableScrollBar(SB_BOTH,ESB_ENABLE_BOTH);
and it change nothing.
can someone could show me a simple example how to add scroll-bar to this member?
thanks a lot,
Tal
Enabling the scroll bars isn't enough. You have to react to the window messages WM_HSCROLLand WM_VSCROLL. Using the GetScrollInfo method you get the position (value) of the scroll bars and then you draw your window content according to this position.
Look up some scroll bar tutorials such as http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/scrolling_support.aspx . In essence, dwo's comment above is what you need to do - handle those messages and set the virtual client area size.
There must be some 'overflow' before scroll bars became active.
Write some 'sufficiently long' data in your view and the scrollbars will become active (at least, that was my experience time ago).
Usually scroll bars get handled 'automatically' from MFC components like (for instance) text editor or form view. I.e. will became visible when needed also without explicit call EnableScrollBarCtrl ...
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I need to add a clear button inside the CEdit control like this:
And I used CMFCEditBrowseCtrl, as described in this article:
MFC Feature Pack - CMFCEditBrowseCtrl.
But the problem is that it shows a very small icon on monitors with high pixel density:
I tried to set a big icon, but the button remains narrow:
Could you please advice some solution?
I want to make my own scrollbars for a custom drawn plot, like this image, what would be the best way to go?
Scrollbars should:
Only be visible when mouse hover over it (with fade in/out)
Be a part of the x/y axis of the plot, like in the picture
Not have any arrow buttons, just the thumb Thinner than the normal scrollbars
Would you suggest to:
Create everything from scratch, handling paging, scrollwheel etc.
Try to inherit CScrollBar and do my own drawing?
From what I've read, it's not very easy to customize scrollbars in MFC, for example here)
First off, these have to be scrollbar (or other) controls, not window scrollbars (used for scrolling a window).
Second, the statement "it's not very easy to customize scrollbars in MFC", is only partially true. MFC is a "thin wrapper" of Windows API, so you should better refer to the documentation of the Windows scrollbar control.
Then there is the CScrollBar class, but took a short look, and indeed, it does not really offer anything more than the Windows scrollbar does. As for the sample in the link you posted is a new (custom) control (painting everything on its own), i.e. literally "from scratch", not inheriting anything from CScrollBar.
So, you have to look into the Windows scrollbar control, and what it offers. Did take a look, and saw few things. Unfortunately there seems to be no owner-draw functionality. You can process the WM_CTLCOLORSCROLLBAR message, but this only allows you to change colors.
And according to the documentation the background color only. This appears to be the only possible customization, apart from the SBM_ENABLE_ARROWS message, which can hide the arrows. And no fading effect. If these are enough to you, you could try the Windows/MFC scrollbar, otherwise try writing your own.
I've designed a toolbox control. It's inside a CDockablePane object. Since the tools inside it may need to be scrolled, I've created a CScrollView as a child of the pane and have inserted the tools inside it as children. Based on the pane size, scrollbars of the CScrollView object appear properly, but clicking on them doesn't scroll the view. It seems that they're disabled. When I use SS_NOTIFY style when creating the CScrollView, the CScrollView object receives mouse clicks, but when i don't use the style, it doesn't. But it seems that the scroll bars inside the view control don't receive clicks. When mouse hover over them, no visual effect in scroll bars appears. It seems that the scroll bars are disabled, while I've not created nor manipulate them.
What's wrong?
mouse wheel works. click on scrollbars is received by the scroll view, not by the scrollbars. inside handler, i wrote this code:
CScrollBar *pScroll = GetScrollBarCtrl(SB_VERT);
if (pScroll->GetSafeHwnd())
{
...
if is not true. this means that the scroll view has not a scroll bar, but if so, how is it shown?!
any idea?
...
since i didn't get answer, i'm going to clarify my question with a sample code:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4829119/930501%20-%20t3.zip
in this sample, how can i scroll my view as i do with other views like class view and file view?
the sample code screenshot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7pu5chpyj9hqeal/Screenshot%202014-07-23%2003.40.26.png
Did you initialize by calling SetScrollSizes? The scroll bars are enabled only when the sizeTotal is larger than the view window size.
I have an app that contains a CControlBar and in that sits a few CStatic Objects which each display an icon with some text.
I have a bug where if I keep resizing the control bar a bit using the mouse, all the text and icons on the control bat as well as other icons and menu item texts across my whole app go invisible / break.
Is there a specific type of redraw function of a specific class that i should be using from the onSize method? or is there something else i need to be doing?
Thanks
I'm trying to create a custom dropdown for a derivative of CComboBox. The dropdown will be a calendar control plus some 'hotspots', e.g.
So I figure the best way to achieve this is to have a simple CWnd-derived class which acts as the parent to the calendar control, and have it paint the hotspots itself.
The window needs to be a popup window - I think - rather than a child window so that it isn't clipped. But doing this causes the dialog (on which the combobox control is placed) to stop being the topmost (foreground?) window, leading to its frame being drawn differently:
alt text http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3474/35148785.png
This spoils the illusion that the dropdown is part of the combobox since its acting more like a modal dialog at this point. Any suggestions on how I make the custom dropdown behave like the regular dropdown?
Are there any other pitfalls I need to watch out for, e.g. focus and mouse capture issues?
When you create your popup window, you need to specify its owner. Owned popup windows will activate their owner when you activate them. Not specifying an owner will cause your window to get activated, which causes the change in the owner you're seeing.
Yeah I had this problem once. A quick google makes me suspect I solved this by using CreateWindowEx() and specifying WS_EX_NOACTIVATE. I have some other code that achieves the same effect by making the window with WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW rather than as a popup window, but I'm not sure of why that was done that way, my intuition would say that making it a popup window would be the way to go.
You can find in the following links two sample project that put in the CComboBox dropdown window a CTreeCtrl or a CListCtrl controls ... similar, you can put whatever you need there. Here is the links:
Tree ComboBox Control
and
List ComboBox Control
I hope this help you.