Hi, I am working on a MS Word Automation project using VS2008 and Office 2003 in c# language. I have a One Page Word template which have bookmarks in table cells. These bookmarks are placeholders where specific information is put in from database using c#. I generate say 10 documents based on the template and save them as seperate file. What I would like is to have a 10 page single document. I can use selection.insertfile to create this document. When I do this, all the formatting goes bersek. Basically what i do is:

Word.Application app = new Word.Application( );
Word._Document wordDocument = app.Documents.Add(

                                ref originalTemplate

                              , ref oMissing

                              , ref oMissing

                              , ref oMissing);


  Word.Selection selection = app.Selection;

  

  int documentCount = MyGeneratedFiles.Length;
  int breakStop = 0;

  foreach (string file in MyGeneratedFiles)

  {

    breakStop++;

    // Insert the files to our template

    selection.InsertFile(

                            file

                            , ref oMissing

                            , ref oMissing
                            , ref oMissing

                            , ref oMissing);







    try

    {

      if (breakStop != documentCount)

        selection.InsertBreak(ref pageBreak);

    }

    catch (Exception ex) { }

  }

  wordDocument = null;

  app.Visible = true;

This works as far as combining all documents is concerned. But the formattign goes crazy and there are no clearly defined pageBreaks. Is there a better way to combine multiple one page documents into one multi-page single document? I have been stuck on this for a while, any help will be much appreciated. Thank you

yupp it was ridiculous. VOID does not have size so the compiler does not allow pointer aithemetic on it. Any suggestions please!!!!

Hi, I am curious abt shortcuts to copying data from two buffers into one. let's say I have an integer and a buffer of LPVOID type. Now i want to copy these two, int first and then all contents of LPVOId buffer( size known ) into the buffer supplied by the user(LPVOID type). memcpy or memmove will do only wholesale copy, no way to specify from what byte to start. is there any way other then byte by byte copy?? how do u do this kinda thing anyways? any pointers will help, thnx will something like this work mydata is allocated and is of LPVOID type myDataSize is UINT and have correct size( hopefully ) of myData void copy( LPVOID buff, size ) { memmove_s( buffer, size, (LPVOID)&someint, sizeof(int) ); buff += sizeof( int ); memmove_s( buffer, ( size - sizeof( int ) ), myData, myDataSize ); //return the input pointer to original value buff -= sizeof( int ); } //this could be totally laughable thing, but am jsut new to this kinda thing //please excuse me if this code seems ridiculous thnx for help.

Thanx for your input. I changed it from dialog bar to CDialog anywyas. I have much more control and flexibility that way. It's easy to position teh window even with CDialog. But thanx for your help. I appreciate it.

Check the SaveGrid method for FlexGrid,here is a quick look: SaveGrid Method Saves grid contents and format to a file. Syntax [form!]VSFlexGrid.SaveGrid FileName As String, SaveWhat As SaveLoadSettings, [ FixedCells As Boolean ] Remarks This method saves a grid to a binary or to a text file. The grid may be retrieved later with the LoadGrid method. Grids saved to text files may also be read by other programs, such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word. The parameters for the SaveGrid method are described below: FileName As String The name of the file to create, including the path. If a file with the same name already exists, it is overwritten. SaveWhat As SaveLoadSettings This parameter specifies what should be saved. Valid options are: Constant Value Description flexFileAll 0 Save all data and formatting information. flexFileData 1 Save only the data, ignoring formatting information. flexFileFormat 2 Save only the global formatting, ignoring the data. flexFileCommaText 3 Save data to a comma-delimited text file. flexFileTabText 4 Save data to a tab-delimited text file. flexFileCustomText 5 Save data to a text file using the delimiters specified by the ClipSeparators property. flexFileExcel 6 Save all data and formatting information to an Excel97 file. This filter does not support frozen color rows or columns. Options As Variant (optional) When saving and loading text files, this parameter allows you to specify whether fixed cells are saved and restored. The default is False, which means fixed cells are not saved or restored. When saving and loading Excel files, this parameter allows you to specify the name or index of the sheet to be loaded, or the name of the sheet to be saved. If omitted, the first sheet is loaded. The options for saving fixed rows, columns, and translated combo values include: Constant Value Description flexXLSaveFixedCells 3 Saves fixed cells. flexXLSaveFixedRows 2 Saves fixed rows. flexXLSaveFixedCols 1 Saves fixed columns. flexXLSaveRaw 4 Saves raw (untranslated) data. For example, the options can be written as: fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls", flexFileExcel fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls", flexFileExcel, "sheetName" fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls", flexFileExcel, flexXLSaveFixedCells fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls", flexFileExcel, flexXLSaveFixedRows fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls", flexFileExcel, flexXLSaveFixedCols fg.SaveGrid "book1.xls"

The flexgrid has option to save files as CSV. I did it over a year ago, so don't remember the details, but i do remmeber saving files as CSV from Flexgrid. Check the method listings in the help.

already have event handlers for on click as folows: public: afx_msg void OnBnClickedLbrexitapp(); void CLaunchbar::OnBnClickedLbrexitapp() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here }

Hi, I have an MDI MFC VS2005 app. I added a dialog bar in resource view and changed the basze class from CDialog to CDialogBar. I use following code to create the dialogbar. Now it is created fine and it aligns at bottom as intended, but all the buttons on the dialogbar are disabled!!!. What's going on here? int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) { if (CFrameWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1) return -1; EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY); m_launchbar.Create( this, IDD_LAUNCHBAR, CBRS_BOTTOM , IDD_LAUNCHBAR ); } In addition to the above problem the OnShowWindow is fired only when exiting the app and never when the app is started. IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CLaunchbar, CDialogBar) CLaunchbar::CLaunchbar(CWnd* pParent /*=NULL*/) : CDialogBar() { } CLaunchbar::~CLaunchbar() { } void CLaunchbar::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX) { CDialogBar::DoDataExchange(pDX); DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_LBREXITAPP, m_lbrExitApp); } BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CLaunchbar, CDialogBar) ON_WM_SHOWWINDOW( ) ON_BN_CLICKED(IDC_LBREXITAPP, &CLaunchbar::OnBnClickedLbrexitapp) END_MESSAGE_MAP() // CLaunchbar message handlers void CLaunchbar::OnShowWindow( BOOL bShow, UINT nStatus ) { } void CLaunchbar::OnBnClickedLbrexitapp() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here } Any help please?

A couple fo things: 1. The object was a CDialog so I changed the base class to CDialogBar 2.I used following code m_launchbar->Create( this,IDD_LAUNCHBAR,CBRS_BOTTOM ,IDD_LAUNCHBAR ); this docs the window fine at the bottom without any setting of position and size using the SetWindowPos. Now what happens is every button on the dialogbar is disabled and it took away the WinXp kind of look from the buttons too!!! Any ideas, am reading MSDN too on this. Thanks for your help , it was awesome

thankx a lot guys. Problem solved. Appreciate the help

i agree, Use heap instead of stack. If you ar ein C++ now, then you won't be really be able to avoid pointers and dynamic allocation.

hi, how will you display an icon on a button(CButton MFC VS2005 ), the icon is in say a fil c:\something.ico

how do you dock, actually I am using a dialog bar I thoguht docking was not possible , so i was doign poisitioning and sizing myself.\ how would you suggest I try docking?

I did that man. here is the problem first if i get rid of the startup child form, the CGUIView OnInitialUpdate does not even get called, so that code do nothing. Second i have no idea how to use SendMessage but this is what i did: void CQCProGUIView::OnInitialUpdate( ) { LoadLaunchBar( ); } int CQCProGUIView::LoadLaunchBar( ) { m_launchbar = new CLaunchBar( ); m_launchbar->DoModal( ); return 0; } now this what this does is basically the application runs, but i don't seee anything at all( not even main MDi form ). if i replace that with: m_launchbar->ShowWindow( SW_NORMAL); the following assertion fails: BOOL CWnd::ShowWindow(int nCmdShow) { ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd) || (m_pCtrlSite != NULL)); if (m_pCtrlSite == NULL) return ::ShowWindow(m_hWnd, nCmdShow); else return m_pCtrlSite->ShowWindow(nCmdShow); } :confused:

where is this OnInitialUpdate sorry am new to MFC.

hey thanks cool ju, that FileNothign worked like a charm. am still trying to show up the dialog thou

have your data as comma seperated values each row seperated by newline adn then jsut give the file .csv extension. That's how I used to do it.

Hi, I created a MFC doc/view application. 1. When the main window( the mdi ) is loaded it displays a empty chiled form. I don't want it to display anything. 2.Now I have dialog which i want to dock along the bottom of the parent window when it's displayed. I am really enw and have done readings and stuff onlien but nothing seem to point in right direction. Any pointers towards this? Any help is appreciated Thanks

Yeah this is what am doign currently, I thought there could be soemthing better. Thank You thou.