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Topic: Controls are cumbersome

Posted By: ABuenger
Subject: Controls are cumbersome
Date Posted: 17 July 2008 at 4:39pm

I've changed some CButton to CXTPButton to get the Office 2007 look, but for each button the theme has be set at runtime, that's horrible. I would expect a CXTPDialog class with a SetTheme() method which then sets the theme of all child controls.

Also there is no CXTPListBox and CXTPComboBox. I would expect all common controls with the different themes.

And last but not least could you please a SetWindowText(UINT nID); method which takes a string id?

Thanks

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Posted By: ABuenger
Date Posted: 18 July 2008 at 7:10am

ABuenger wrote:

And last but not least could you please a SetWindowText(UINT nID); method which takes a string id?

Wrote a little wrapper:

class CStringResource : public CString
{
public:
   CStringResource(UINT nID)
   {
      VERIFY(LoadString(nID));
   }
};

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Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 10 August 2008 at 6:26am

Don't waste your time writing wrappers for nothing ;)

CString str((LPCTSTR)IDS_STRING);

or, my personal favorite:

inline CString _S(UINT nID)

{

#ifdef _DEBUG

CString str;

ASSERT(str.LoadString(nID));

#else

return CString((LPCTSTR)nID);

#endif

}

foo(_S(IDS_STRING)); // Simple code :)

Posted By: ABuenger
Date Posted: 10 August 2008 at 10:11am

znakeeye wrote:

Don't waste your time writing wrappers for nothing ;)

CString str((LPCTSTR)IDS_STRING);

I think this constructor is pretty ugly. I never understood why there is no CString(UINT nID) constructor. That would even make CString(0) and CString(NULL) ambigoius which I think would be a good thing because both are not valid.

CString::CString(LPCTSTR lpsz)
{
    Init();
    if (lpsz != NULL && HIWORD(lpsz) == NULL)
    {
        UINT nID = LOWORD((DWORD)lpsz);
    }
}

znakeeye wrote:

or, my personal favorite:

foo(_S(IDS_STRING)); // Simple code :)

I like that one

_T() and _S()

But the primary reason for my post was that the XTP controls are cumbersome. I don't understand why Codejock doesn't get the basics done but instead works on a useless Ribbon designer.

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Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 17 August 2008 at 2:03pm

Yeah. I spent weeks on my ribbon, and now my competitors will be able to do the same in a couple of minutes. Grrr! :)