I am working on this popup dialog and I am at the design stage:
I have three tristate checkboxes at the top and three group boxes with 4 checkboxes in each. The concept is simple:
If all 4 check boxes are ticked then the master checkbox is ticked.
If none of them are ticked then the master one is untickd.
If only 1 to 3 of them are ticked then the master one is set to intermediatery.
The user will be able to tick the master check box to bulk switch on all off all the associated checkboxes.
My question relates to the 3 static group boxes. I want those three lables changed into the 3 tri-state checkboxes as it will look nicer. When I played with WPF i had full control over how the labels looked for groupboxes but whatabout here in a MFC project?
This is the resource in my test project:
IDD_MFCAPPLICATION4_DIALOG DIALOGEX 0, 0, 309, 184
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
EXSTYLE WS_EX_APPWINDOW
CAPTION "Assignment Slips"
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 0, 0, 0x1
BEGIN
DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK",IDOK,199,163,50,14
PUSHBUTTON "Cancel",IDCANCEL,252,163,50,14
CONTROL "Main hall",IDC_CHECK1,"Button",BS_AUTO3STATE | WS_TABSTOP,18,7,43,10
GROUPBOX "Main hall",IDC_STATIC,7,23,94,82
CONTROL "Bible Reading",IDC_CHECK2,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,38,59,10
CONTROL "Initial Call",IDC_CHECK3,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,53,47,10
CONTROL "First Return Visit",IDC_CHECK4,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,67,69,10
CONTROL "Bible Study",IDC_CHECK5,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,82,51,10
GROUPBOX "Aux. Class 1",IDC_STATIC,107,23,94,82
CONTROL "Bible Reading",IDC_CHECK6,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,117,38,59,10
CONTROL "Initial Call",IDC_CHECK7,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,117,53,47,10
CONTROL "First Return Visit",IDC_CHECK8,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,117,67,69,10
CONTROL "Bible Study",IDC_CHECK9,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,117,82,51,10
GROUPBOX "Aux. Class 2",IDC_STATIC,207,23,94,82
CONTROL "Bible Reading",IDC_CHECK10,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,217,39,59,10
CONTROL "Initial Call",IDC_CHECK11,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,217,53,47,10
CONTROL "First Return Visit",IDC_CHECK12,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,217,68,69,10
CONTROL "Bible Study",IDC_CHECK13,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,217,82,51,10
GROUPBOX "Other",IDC_STATIC,7,108,94,69
CONTROL "Opening Prayer",IDC_CHECK14,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,126,66,10
CONTROL "Closing Prayer",IDC_CHECK15,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | WS_TABSTOP,17,141,62,10
CONTROL "Aux. Class 1",IDC_CHECK18,"Button",BS_AUTO3STATE | WS_TABSTOP,117,7,56,10
CONTROL "Aux. Class 2",IDC_CHECK19,"Button",BS_AUTO3STATE | WS_TABSTOP,217,7,56,10
CONTROL "Congregation Bible Study",IDC_CHECK16,"Button",BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | BS_TOP | BS_MULTILINE | WS_TABSTOP,17,156,76,17
END
Update
One posibility is to adjust the design style like this:
That is quite clear and avoids the need for a checkbox as the label of the group box. But I would prefer the original approach if at all possible.
Update
Looking at this answer I cameup with a solution:
I'm creating a small program of my own on WinAPI, (to practice the WIN API programing)
and I wanted to create an "about us" box, like where it is told who built the program, which version is it and such...
I was able to create the window sucsessfully, though I could only created an empty window..
I was wondering how can I write text in the box?
This is my function that creates the dialog box, where ghInstance is the instance of the window :
void CreateDialogBox(HWND hwnd)
{
CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME | WS_EX_TOPMOST, TEXT("DialogClass"), TEXT("About Us"), WS_VISIBLE | WS_SYSMENU | WS_CAPTION , 100, 100, 200, 150, NULL, NULL, ghInstance, NULL);
}
So how can I write inside that empty window some stuff?
Thanks!
This tutorial, provided by Microsoft (MSDN) themselves should come in handy:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb384843.aspx
Take note of the WM_PAINT section. That's for drawing simple text.
You can also create controls on the window, for example:
C++ Win32 Multiline static label
If you are using MS VC++, you can try editing the pre-made About us in the resource script. Or you hand craft it in a resource script.
DialogboxName DIALOGEX 0, 0, 170, 62
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "About Us"
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 0, 0, 0x1
BEGIN
ICON 128,IDC_STATIC,14,14,21,20
LTEXT "Program by you, Version 1.0",IDC_STATIC,42,14,114,8,SS_NOPREFIX
LTEXT "Copyright (C) 2016",IDC_STATIC,42,26,114,8
DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK",IDOK,113,41,50,14,WS_GROUP
END
You can reference Charles Petzold Windows programming book, version 5 of it.
ScrollViewer can automatically add horizontal/vertical scrollbars for a given element. Now, I have an image wrapped inside zooming/panning control. I want to add scrollbars to the view containing this zooming control. When the image is fully visible, the scrollbars should be invisible. When 10% of the image is visible, the scrollbar thumb should occopy 1/10 of the scrollbar (standard behavior).
The problem here is that I want the ScrollViewer to occupy the area of the zooming control, and adapt its values using the image inside this control. Perhaps this can be done using some kind of binding to the child of the zooming control? Or maybe using two ScrollBar instances instead?
Zoomed out
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| |
| +-------+ |
| | image | |
| +-------+ |
| |
+----------------+
Zoomed in
+----------------+
| |
| image sc <- adapting to visibleHeight/imageHeight
| ro
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+---- scroll ----+ <- adapting to visibleWidth/imageWidth
Sigh. Solved it using a ScrollViewer. I had to set the CanContentScroll to True...