Problems with WM_UPDATEUISTATE

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   For a long time I have struggled with MFC dialog boxes that we insert into a task panel group that has buttons on it. We use the CXTButton class and the issue I have is with the focus rectangle not drawing or with inconsistent drawing.

I have found that previously that the UISF_HIDEFOCUS flag gets cleared and so my "fix" is to try and isolate a good code location to send the WM_UPDATEUISTATE message to the button using MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS)  and a 0 LPARAM. That clears the bit. This has mostly worked but now with the version 15.1.3, I am having the issue again.

So in my OnEraseBkgnd handler, I do this:

SendMessage(WM_UPDATEUISTATE, MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS), 0);

TO make matters worse, I have previously found that on some machines, when I do that, another display is immediately initiated so I wrapped the code up to stop the display chain:

                    static int s_UpdatingUIState = 0;

                    if( 0 == s_UpdatingUIState )

                    {

                         s_UpdatingUIState = 1;

                         SendMessage(WM_UPDATEUISTATE, MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS), 0);

                         s_UpdatingUIState = 0;

                    }

That was working but now it is not working. Again I am in a constant state of displays unless I remove that code.

So I searched the CJ code base we have an I see that CodeJock now has two XTButton.cpp files. One is in Controls\Deprecated\XTButton.cpp and the other in Controls\Button\XTPButton.cpp.

I set a break in both and I see that we are using the "deprecated" one. Also, in the deprecated code, I see CJ calling Inalidate(FALSE) while in the other file (non-deprecated) I see CJ calling RedrawButton.

So, I have a some questions for the CodeJock developers. 

Why did you change the CXTButton:LOnUpdateUIState code to call RedrawButton when this message handler is called?

Should I be doing something to make sure I am not using the "deprecated" source file?

How might the focus rect display keep getting turned off?

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rdhd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 13 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 886	Post Options Post Reply Quote rdhd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Problems with WM_UPDATEUISTATE Posted: 05 December 2012 at 3:02pm
	For a long time I have struggled with MFC dialog boxes that we insert into a task panel group that has buttons on it. We use the CXTButton class and the issue I have is with the focus rectangle not drawing or with inconsistent drawing. I have found that previously that the UISF_HIDEFOCUS flag gets cleared and so my "fix" is to try and isolate a good code location to send the WM_UPDATEUISTATE message to the button using MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS) and a 0 LPARAM. That clears the bit. This has mostly worked but now with the version 15.1.3, I am having the issue again. So in my OnEraseBkgnd handler, I do this: SendMessage(WM_UPDATEUISTATE, MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS), 0); TO make matters worse, I have previously found that on some machines, when I do that, another display is immediately initiated so I wrapped the code up to stop the display chain: static int s_UpdatingUIState = 0; if( 0 == s_UpdatingUIState ) { s_UpdatingUIState = 1; SendMessage(WM_UPDATEUISTATE, MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS), 0); s_UpdatingUIState = 0; } That was working but now it is not working. Again I am in a constant state of displays unless I remove that code. So I searched the CJ code base we have an I see that CodeJock now has two XTButton.cpp files. One is in Controls\Deprecated\XTButton.cpp and the other in Controls\Button\XTPButton.cpp. I set a break in both and I see that we are using the "deprecated" one. Also, in the deprecated code, I see CJ calling Inalidate(FALSE) while in the other file (non-deprecated) I see CJ calling RedrawButton. So, I have a some questions for the CodeJock developers. Why did you change the CXTButton:LOnUpdateUIState code to call RedrawButton when this message handler is called? Should I be doing something to make sure I am not using the "deprecated" source file? How might the focus rect display keep getting turned off?