CEdit selects everything when getting focus - visual-c++

When I move to a CEdit control on my dialog using the tab key or the arrow keys all the text in the control is selected. This behaviour is causing me problems and I would prefer it if the control just put the cursor at the start (or end) of the text and didn't select anything.
Is there a simple way to do this (e.g. a property of the control that I can set)?

Another way of achieving your goal is to prevent the contents from being selected. When navigating over controls in a dialog the dialog manager queries the respective controls about certain properties pertaining to their behavior. By default an edit control responds with a DLGC_HASSETSEL flag (among others) to indicate to the dialog manager that its contents should be auto-selected.
To work around this you would have to subclass the edit control and handle the WM_GETDLGCODE message to alter the flags appropriately. First, derive a class from CEdit:
class CPersistentSelectionEdit : public CEdit {
public:
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
afx_msg UINT OnGetDlgCode() {
// Return default value, removing the DLGC_HASSETSEL flag
return ( CEdit::OnGetDlgCode() & ~DLGC_HASSETSEL );
}
};
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP( CPersistentSelectionEdit, CEdit )
ON_WM_GETDLGCODE()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
Next subclass the actual control. There are a number of ways to do this. To keep things simple just declare a class member m_Edit1 of type CPersistentSelectionEdit in your dialog class and add an appropriate entry in DoDataExchange:
// Subclass the edit control
DDX_Control( pDX, IDC_EDIT1, m_Edit1 );
At this point you have an edit control that doesn't have its contents auto-selected when navigated to. You can control the selection whichever way you want.

I don't think that such a style exists.
But you can add OnSetfocus handler with the wizard:
void CMyDlg::OnSetfocusEdit1()
{
CEdit* e = (CEdit*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1);
e->SetSel(0); // <-- hide selection
}

Please note that there must be a code in your program to highlight the selection. Please find something like this:
CEdit* pEdit = ((CEdit*)GetDlgItem(IDC_EDIT1));
pEdit->SetFocus();
pEdit->SetSel(0, -1); // select everything
Simply comment the last two lines, instead of >SetSel(0). Your code is enabling and disabling which is meaningless to me.

Related

Set focus explicitly to CMFCRibbonEdit

I am trying to create a search box on Ribbon bar of my application.
It should search for given text in a tree control, on hitting Enter button, but without loosing it's focus/selection.
Currently when I am hitting enter it loses it's focus, and makes user to click in that search box again in order to continue.
My search box is a CMFCRibbonEdit control.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
Had the same problem, and the solution is a bit painful. If you look at the source for CMFCRibbonEdit you'll see it has a protected member CMFCRibbonRichEditCtrl* m_pWndEdit; Internally the ribbon code uses m_pWndEdit->SetFocus(); to set focus on the edit control. You can derive a class from CMFCRibbonEdit using something like
class CMyRibbonEdit : public CMFCRibbonEdit
{
public:
void SetFocus()
{
m_pWndEdit->SetFocus();
}
};
but it has problems. Notably setting the focus calls the command handler for the edit window, so if you call SetFocus from that function you're liable to hit recursion and a stack fault.

Entering newline in a cedit control

A very straightforward question....
How do you enter a new line in a CEdit control box without it triggering OK and closing the dialog box altogether? What I mean is when you hit the enter key it automatically selects OK, even if your cursor is still in the CEdit control. Is what I am trying to do possible? Or do i have to use some other control
PS: It is a modal dialog box btw.
There are various solutions for this problem.
Basically what you need is the ES_WANTRETURN style on the edit control.
Another solution is to check the message and key in PreTranslateMessage (since it has been commented upon this is not the recommended way, I'm just mentioning it for possibilities):
BOOL CYouDialog::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if (pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN && pMsg->wParam == VK_RETURN &&
GetFocus() == youcontrol)
{
return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
}
The other solution is to handle WM_GETDLGCODE. You should subclass the edit control and do this:
UINT CYourEdit::OnGetDlgCode()
{
return CEdit::OnGetDlgCode() | DLGC_WANTALLKEYS;
}
UPDATE: FYI, also have a look at Just because you're a control doesn't mean that you're necessarily inside a dialog box.
The default dialog processing, as you've discovered, is to close a dialog box when enter is pressed. MFC actually executes the OnOK processing, but you can override that. Here's and old explanation, but, it's still relevant.

MFC Document View Getting Tabbing to work

I have created a MFC Document View app and added several classes which inherit from CEdit to the CView. I would like to get tabbing between each CEdit working. I have looked around and most solution involve Adding IsDialogMessage() to either the message loop or in PreTranslateMessage. I have tried this in the PreTranslateMessage method of the CEdit class like this:
BOOL WordControl::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if(IsDialogMessage(pMsg))
return TRUE;
else
return __super::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}
however, now the CEdit doesn't receive any keyboard messages and doesn't tab. I have created the CEdit like this:
Create(WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER | ES_CENTER , Rect, Parent, Index);
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
The app uses the basic MFC single document
template. I am dynamically adding several objects which inherit from CEdit and several which inherit from CStatic. I have managed to create all the CEdits and CStatics but I would like to be able to tab from CEdit to CEdit.
A picture is worth a thousand words; here is a screenshot:
I want to be able to type "hello" in the first CEdit, hit tab and for the next CEdit to have focus. Then I will type "world" and then hit tab and the next CEdit will have focus for me to type "this" etc.
EDIT:
New Window:
Use a CFormView as your base. You can add controls dynamically and the form will manage the tabbing for you. If you only have a small number of maximum edit controls you could also just create them on the form and then show/hide them as necessary.

Hide Controls At Design-Time [duplicate]

I need to handle multiple panels, containing variuous data masks. Each panel shall be visible using a TreeView control.
At this time, I handle the panels visibility manually, by making the selected one visible and bring it on top.
Actually this is not much confortable, especially in the UI designer, since when I add a brand new panel I have to resize every panel and then design it...
A good solution would be using a TabControl, and each panel is contained in a TabPage. But I cannot find any way to hide the TabControl buttons, since I already have a TreeView for selecting items.
Another solution would be an ipotethic "StackPanelControl", where the Panels are arranged using a stack, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
What's the best solution to handle this kind of UI?
You need a wee bit of Win32 API magic. The tab control sends the TCM_ADJUSTRECT message to allow the app to adjust the tab size. Add a new class to your project and paste the code shown below. Compile. Drop the new control from the top of the toolbox onto your form.
You'll get the tabs at design time so you can easily switch between pages. The tabs are hidden at runtime, use the SelectedIndex or SelectedTab property to switch between "views".
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
class StackPanel : TabControl {
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) {
// Hide tabs by trapping the TCM_ADJUSTRECT message
if (m.Msg == 0x1328 && !DesignMode) m.Result = (IntPtr)1;
else base.WndProc(ref m);
}
}
A good solution would be using a TabControl, and each panel is contained in a TabPage.
But I cannot find any way to hide the TabControl buttons, since I already have a
TreeView for selecting items.
For the above,
You need to set the following properties of TabControl.
tabControl.Multiline = true;
tabControl.Appearance = TabAppearance.Buttons;
tabControl.ItemSize = new System.Drawing.Size(0, 1);
tabControl.SizeMode = TabSizeMode.Fixed;
tabControl.TabStop = false;

How to change the foreground colour (ie text or caption) of a push button in MFC/VC++ dialog application

Am doing a calculator programme in vc++/MFC dialog application. Thier, i want to change the foreground and background colour of a push button in dialog. I have no idea, how to change.
Please suggests me with relevent code or example if any body have idea.
basu_sagar
There's no easy way to do this in a classical VC/MFC application, button colours are always system-defined. You either have to use a custom control, or create an owner-draw button. Handling WM_CTLCOLOR and returning a different brush doesn't work for buttons.
Edit:
This is an example replacement button control someone has built to solve this problem by encapsulating the owner-draw code into a class.
You can use a CMFCButton. Although you can directly say in your resources file a button is of this type, I do not recommend it, because it adds an unmaintainable hexadecimal piece of text on the rc file. And if you use several rc files, one for each language, it's really devilish!
So lets go. In your form class, declare a member
CMFCButton m_button1;
The DoDataExchange should look like:
void MyDialog::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)
{
__super::DoDataExchange(pDX);
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_BUTTON1, m_button1);
// ...
}
Then the OnInitDialog should be something like:
BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog()
{
if(!__super::OnInitDialog())
return FALSE;
m_button1.SetFaceColor(RGB(0,0,255));
m_button1.SetTextColor(RGB(0,255,0));
m_button1.SetHotTextColor(RGB(255,0,0));
return TRUE;
}
The code I posted will draw a blue button, with green text, and when cursor hovers the button, its text will turn red.

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