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    Posted: 29 May 2009 at 5:39am
I would like to present the way you can create your own XAML tag and put CWnd derived control inside markup. In my exaple I create edit box markup.

All you have to do is to create a class derived from CXTPMarkupFrameworkElement, register a new markup type and register some events, so you can interact with the control.

MarkupEdit.h

#pragma once
class MarkupEdit : public CXTPMarkupFrameworkElement
{
    DECLARE_MARKUPCLASS(MarkupEdit)

public:
    virtual CSize MeasureOverride(CXTPMarkupDrawingContext* pDC, CSize constraint);
    virtual void OnRender(CXTPMarkupDrawingContext* pDC);

    HWND GetEdit();  //returns HWND of the edit box control

protected:
    MarkupEdit() {}
    virtual ~MarkupEdit() {}
   
    void CreateControl(CRect rc);

protected:
    CXTPEdit mEdit; //the control we want to put into markup

public:
    static CXTPMarkupRoutedEvent* m_pCreateEvent; //an event we want to fire after the control is created

};


MarkupEdit.cpp

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "MarkupEdit.h"

CXTPMarkupRoutedEvent* MarkupEdit::m_pCreateEvent = NULL;

//This line bindes the markup control with its tag
IMPLEMENT_MARKUPCLASS(L"EditBox", MarkupEdit, CXTPMarkupFrameworkElement)

void MarkupEdit::RegisterMarkupClass()
{
    //register 'Create' event
    m_pCreateEvent = CXTPMarkupRoutedEvent::RegisterRoutedEvent(L"Create", CXTPMarkupRoutedEvent::routingBubble, MARKUP_TYPE(MarkupEdit));
}

CSize MarkupEdit::MeasureOverride(CXTPMarkupDrawingContext* /*pDC*/, CSize constraint)
{
    return constraint;
}

void MarkupEdit::OnRender(CXTPMarkupDrawingContext* pDC)
{
    if (!mEdit.GetSafeHwnd())
    {
        CRect rc = m_pMarkupContext->GetClientBoundingRect(this);
        CreateControl(rc);
    }
}

void MarkupEdit::CreateControl(CRect rc)
{
    if (m_pMarkupContext)
    {
        CWnd* wnd = CWnd::FromHandle(m_pMarkupContext->m_hContextWnd);
        if (wnd)
        {
            if (!mEdit.GetSafeHwnd())
            {
                mEdit.Create(ES_LEFT | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | WS_BORDER,
                    rc, wnd, 0);
                mEdit.SetFont(&XTAuxData().font);

                //fire 'Create' event
                CXTPMarkupRoutedEventArgs e(m_pCreateEvent, this);
                RaiseEvent(&e);
            }
        }
    }
}

HWND MarkupEdit::GetEdit()
{
    return mEdit.GetSafeHwnd();
}



Register new markup control:

    MarkupEdit::RegisterType();

You can do it for example in the constructor of CMarkupStatic class from Codejock sample.

Define method to handle control events:

    AddHandler(MarkupEdit::m_pCreateEvent, CreateMarkupClassDelegate(this, &CMarkupStatic::OnEditCreate));


Now you can put into XAML your tag:

...
<EditBox Tag='Edit1' Width='100' Height='26'/>
...



When the edit control is created inside markup, 'Create' event is fired and you can get the pointer or HWND of the control. If you put more edit boxes into markup, you can distighuish them by 'Tag' property.

void Avatar::OnEditCreate(CXTPMarkupObject* pSender, CXTPMarkupRoutedEventArgs* pArgs)
{
    if (pSender->IsKindOf(MARKUP_TYPE(MarkupEdit)))
    {
        pArgs->SetHandled();

        CXTPMarkupString* pTag = MARKUP_DYNAMICCAST(CXTPMarkupString, ((MarkupEdit*)pSender)->GetTag());
        if (pTag)
        {
            CString tag = (LPCTSTR)*pTag;
            if (tag == _T("Edit1"))
            {
                mEditHwnd = ((MarkupEdit*)pSender)->GetEdit();
            }
        }
    }
}



As long as markup exists, you can read whatever user entered into edit box.

    if (mEditHwnd)
    {
        CString text;
        ::GetWindowText(mEditHwnd, text.GetBufferSetLength(128), 128);
    }




Voila

Comments, questions and improvements are welcome.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alina Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 June 2009 at 6:57am
How can I create edit box markup in Visual Basic?
Please help!
Thank you!

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Krog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 June 2009 at 6:32am
Hi Alina!

In VB it is not possible :(
Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 15.2.1
Platform: Windows XP SP2
Language: Visual Basic 6 SP6
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Hi! and how to make the edit control to have the same behavior as other controls, i.e., automatic resize, etc?


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Hi, I tried this and could not get it to work. I expect this is my not understanding Code Jock idioms, and it's been a long time since I used MFC too.

Using this XAML:
<Page
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

<EditBox>Enter something...</EditBox>
</Page>

I get this error:
Cannot convert the string 'Enter something...' into a 'MarkupEdit' object. Line 5, position 38

One thing I was particulalry confused about was where the AddHandler call is supposed to go. Can someone point me to some good intrudcutory documentation on this idiom?

Thanks,
Pete.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote adrien Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 April 2013 at 11:54pm
Pete - your markup is wrong.  In the example it was

...
<EditBox Tag='Edit1' Width='100' Height='26'/>
...

not <EditBox>... </EditBox>

If you want some default text settable from the markup, you'd need to set it as a named attribute and extract that from the markup context when it's being created I guess.
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this in ScrollViewer have bug
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