Re: AfxGetMainWnd () call

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<49c59147-9861-4317-a5a3-a93fd0c38c84@t8g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>

CWaitDialog::CWaitDialog (BOOL pFlag, CString& pszCaption, CString&


****
I'm curious why it isn't const CString & for the values; and why 'psz' si=

nce it is not a

pointer...
****>pszText) : CDialog ()

{
   m_pFlag = pFlag;

   // Disable the main window and create the dialog.
   AfxGetMainWnd ()->EnableWindow (FALSE);
   Create (IDD_WAITDIALOG);


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This would be
        Create(CWaitDialog::IDD);
and I note that you do not check the return value to see if it worked...
****

   // Initialize the dialog caption and the static text control.
   SetWindowText ((pszCaption.GetLength()) ? _T("Working") :
pszCaption);


****
That would be
        SetWindowText(pszCaption.IsEmpty() ? _T("Working") : pszC=

aption);

****

   // Display the dialog.
   ShowWindow (SW_SHOW);
}

and here is my call of this dialog in the method OnWizardFinish()
which will be called if the user clicks the "ok" button to update his
settings.

void CWizardDialog::OnWizardFinish()
{
  BOOL bContinue = TRUE;
  BOOL stillWorking = TRUE;

  CString dialogtitle ("Please wait...");
  CString dialogtext ("Wait for me to do my stuff...");


****
Note that you should not include English words in literal strings in a pr=

ogram; it makes

localization very difficult.
****> CWaitDialog dlg (bContinue, dialogtitle, dialogtext);

  while (stillWorking && bContinue)
  {
      //verify all data

      //add message to dialog if verifcation failed (to inform th=

e

user)
  }


****
There is something odd here; for example, why is the dialog allowed to be=

 closed if the

data isn't valid? You should be verifying the data before you allow th=

e dialog to close!

I agree; but some data to verfiy will take some time - for example
verifying the network settings (ip-ping or searching for a dhcp
server); and both the dialog as well as verfiying the data will be in
the same thread.

Therefore maybe it`s ok to open the waitdialog for the user to verfiy
all his settings; but if these settings are not ok, then I will only
close the waitdialog so that the user can made some changes to fix
these errors.

best regards
Hans

I'd throw all this code out and start over. Do a modal dialog, don't l=

et it close until

the data is verified (don't even enable the OK button!)
                        joe
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  //finished
  dlg.Close();
}

best regards
Hans


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