>-- On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:48:52 -0700 Ian Simpson wrote
--
> I have developed a Dialog-based program GUI for a user
to enter
> some file names and parameters and press
"Calculate" to run a
> calculation. I want to have a window pop up and be
filled with text
> giving the progress of the calculation, such as Case #1
Reading
> input Calculating blah blah Case #2.
>
> (This is a GUI for an engineering program used for
years on the DOS
> command line with lots if printf statement)
>
> I have not been able to figure out how to add this
window within
> DB. I can sort of make it work by manually adding some
code in my
> main Dialog's onCalculate function that creates a
wxFrame and
> passes a pointer into my calculation engine function
where I used
> wxClientDC to create a device context and then write
text to the
> Frame incrementing the y coordinate for each new line.
When it
> reaches the bottom of the Frame, I clear the Frame and
start back
> at the top. I also tried it with wxScrolledWindow and
get a similar
> result.
>
> I noticed in both cases it worked OK until I tried to
move the
> temporary window around. It goes blank and does not
redraw after I
> touch it, but the calculation carries on.
>
> What would be nice is to have a window that fills with
text from
> the top down and then scrolls as more is added.
>
> How do you add this in DialogBlocks? I started at the
Windows level
> ("Add your windows under this folder") and
added a new Dialog named
> ProgressDialog and then put a wxScrolledWindow in the
new Dialog.
> If I do that, I am not sure how to access the
wxScrolledWindow for
> writing to it. Do I need to use an INIT_DIALOG event
handler in the
> ProgressDialog class to access the member variable for
the
> wxScrolledWindow so as to be able to create a DC for
writing? If I
> try to access the wxScrolledWindow from my main
Dialog's
> onCalculate function, it becomes an overlaid window on
the main
> Dialog.
>
> Ian
>
>
Hi!
I believe what you're looking for is a wxTextCtrl (used and
with many
particulars in both Data Converter and Regex tutorials!;)
What you describe is
what on many platforms is called a console window and/or
information window.
Usually tucked away somewhere in a corner in the
application, spewing out "warm
fuzzy" data for the user's gratification and/or
debugging information.
HTH:
BTW, you know that the Visual Studio 2005 Express is
"free forever"(!:-O ),
quite a surprise from Microsoft!;) Its chief advantage
(besides a great IDE) is
that it has an optimizing compiler, whereas, last I heard,
7.x was not. DB works
great with the Visual Studio 2005, just specify VC++ Project
for the compiler
configuration. Then, you can use the GUI debugger in Visual
Studio with the code
you've generated in DB.
Links are specified at wxMS_developers to get Visual Studio
2005 Express. As
they say, "Try it! You'll like it!"
Also, .pjd's are great for sharing to see what exactly one
is trying to do!;)
Don't forget, any files containing any hand coding are
needed (as well as image
files), these cannot be generated by DB!
thx,
Dave S.
Arthur Dent:
COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!
Eddie the Computer:
Sure thing fella! Switching to manual control... good
luck!
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