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  • H hyling

    Hi, I have dialog based application. If my event handler is in any class other than the main dialog class it never gets called. I would like to move the event handler to my subclass of a control. Suggestions? What am I doing wrong? Thanks Hua-Ying

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    Jaime Stuardo
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    some example code so that we can see what happen? I'm not a wizard :) Jaime

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    • H hyling

      Hi, I have dialog based application. If my event handler is in any class other than the main dialog class it never gets called. I would like to move the event handler to my subclass of a control. Suggestions? What am I doing wrong? Thanks Hua-Ying

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      David Crow
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      What class did you derive from? What event are you wanting to handle?


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        some example code so that we can see what happen? I'm not a wizard :) Jaime

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        Example code probably won't help but I can walk through the steps to reproduce the problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2003 .Net - Create new MFC Application, select application type Dialog based. - In the class view, using the wizard create a new class with a base class of CButton, I called mine MyButton. - in the main dialog create a new button, right click and "Add Event Handler" choose the Message type: BN_CLICKED and the class as MyButton. - in the handler OnBnClickedButton1 add MessageBox("hello"); - run application - click button, nothing happens however if you added the Event Handler to the main dialog class created by the wizard, then everything works fine. :confused: Ideas? Thanks Hua-Ying

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          What class did you derive from? What event are you wanting to handle?


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          hyling
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          See my response to Jamie please, that should be enough to completely reproduce the problem. Thanks Hua-Ying

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          • H hyling

            Example code probably won't help but I can walk through the steps to reproduce the problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2003 .Net - Create new MFC Application, select application type Dialog based. - In the class view, using the wizard create a new class with a base class of CButton, I called mine MyButton. - in the main dialog create a new button, right click and "Add Event Handler" choose the Message type: BN_CLICKED and the class as MyButton. - in the handler OnBnClickedButton1 add MessageBox("hello"); - run application - click button, nothing happens however if you added the Event Handler to the main dialog class created by the wizard, then everything works fine. :confused: Ideas? Thanks Hua-Ying

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            Maximilien
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            did you put a break point in your handler ? me think it's the MessageBox that simply doesn't show.


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            • H hyling

              Example code probably won't help but I can walk through the steps to reproduce the problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2003 .Net - Create new MFC Application, select application type Dialog based. - In the class view, using the wizard create a new class with a base class of CButton, I called mine MyButton. - in the main dialog create a new button, right click and "Add Event Handler" choose the Message type: BN_CLICKED and the class as MyButton. - in the handler OnBnClickedButton1 add MessageBox("hello"); - run application - click button, nothing happens however if you added the Event Handler to the main dialog class created by the wizard, then everything works fine. :confused: Ideas? Thanks Hua-Ying

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              Hmm. I'd say the button press must be notified to the parent of the button, in this case the dialog. Notice that the event is called "BN_CLICKED". the "N" in "BN_" usually means "notification", in which case, the button's parent is notified. HTH Bikram Singh I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.

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              • H hyling

                Example code probably won't help but I can walk through the steps to reproduce the problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2003 .Net - Create new MFC Application, select application type Dialog based. - In the class view, using the wizard create a new class with a base class of CButton, I called mine MyButton. - in the main dialog create a new button, right click and "Add Event Handler" choose the Message type: BN_CLICKED and the class as MyButton. - in the handler OnBnClickedButton1 add MessageBox("hello"); - run application - click button, nothing happens however if you added the Event Handler to the main dialog class created by the wizard, then everything works fine. :confused: Ideas? Thanks Hua-Ying

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                In the message map for MyButton, add the following:

                ON_CONTROL_REFLECT(BN_CLICKED, OnBnClickedButton1)

                and remove the ON_BN_CLICKED() statement.


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                  Example code probably won't help but I can walk through the steps to reproduce the problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2003 .Net - Create new MFC Application, select application type Dialog based. - In the class view, using the wizard create a new class with a base class of CButton, I called mine MyButton. - in the main dialog create a new button, right click and "Add Event Handler" choose the Message type: BN_CLICKED and the class as MyButton. - in the handler OnBnClickedButton1 add MessageBox("hello"); - run application - click button, nothing happens however if you added the Event Handler to the main dialog class created by the wizard, then everything works fine. :confused: Ideas? Thanks Hua-Ying

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                  PJ Arends
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                  Use message reflection. See technical note 62 in MSDN. Search for TN062


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                  • H hyling

                    Hi, I have dialog based application. If my event handler is in any class other than the main dialog class it never gets called. I would like to move the event handler to my subclass of a control. Suggestions? What am I doing wrong? Thanks Hua-Ying

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                    IIRC, I think you will need to use "reflection" to make this work. There is usualy a weird message handle for classes like button that allows them to trap their own click messages. In VS 7, and I think VS 6 did it this way too, the message you want to trap in the wizards looks something like: =BN_CLICKED And the message map entry will be something like: ON_CONTROL_REFLECT(BN_CLICKED, OnBnClicked) Hope this helps. An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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                      Use message reflection. See technical note 62 in MSDN. Search for TN062


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                      hyling
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                      Thanks, this is exactly what I'm looking for!

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                      • H hyling

                        Hi, I have dialog based application. If my event handler is in any class other than the main dialog class it never gets called. I would like to move the event handler to my subclass of a control. Suggestions? What am I doing wrong? Thanks Hua-Ying

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                        hyling
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                        Thanks for everyone's help!! :) For anyone else who's having the same problem, one last thing you must do before this solution will work is to add a variable in you main dialog class so that when it loads your control it will use the subclass for the control instead of the original. Details: using the class wizard generate a new variable with your subclass type, click the control check box (VS 2003 .Net) so that DDX_Control will update the value. You can also follow Chris Maunder's great tutorial on subclassing controls: tutorial Hua-Ying

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