Thanks for your help and Julian's. I will get back later as
I
(hopefully) make progress, but thanks for the Visual Studio
2005 Express
tip. I installed it and am using it now.
Question: After changing to V8, it could not find
<windows.h>. I
searched for <windows.h> and only found it in my old
Visual Studio .NET
2003 PlatformSDK tree. It was not anywhere in 2005. So I
have set the
PLATFORMSDK path to VS .NET 2003 and it works OK. Is that
what one is
supposed to do?
Ian
Dave Silvia wrote:
>> -- 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.
>
>
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