Re: CRichEditCtrl contents from RTF file

From:
Hector Santos <sant9442@nospam.gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:56:40 -0400
Message-ID:
<uV4Bsnh5KHA.620@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Goran, I couldn't see how this resolves reading in an RTF unicode?

I am not yet an UNI-GARBAGE expert, but I got it to work doing this
(excluding the finer details of passing an object):

In InitDialog()

#define BOM L'\xFEFF'
....

   EDITSTREAM es = {0};
   WCHAR ch;
   int n = eulaFile2.Read(&ch, sizeof(WCHAR));
   if(n == 2 && ch == BOM) {
      es.pfnCallback = (EDITSTREAMCALLBACK)MyStreamInCallbackW;
      m_RECtrlW.StreamIn(SF_RTF | SF_UNICODE, es);
   } else {
      eulaFile2.SeekToBegin();
      es.pfnCallback = (EDITSTREAMCALLBACK)MyStreamInCallback;
      m_RECtrlW.StreamIn(SF_RTF, es);
   }

And the MyStreamInCallbackW() reads in cb amount and converts it a
multi-byte array.

Of course, this can all be done cleanly passing the cookie struct like
you have it to 1 callback and have it do the initial BOM test, but I
would like to know if converting it to a multi-byte array in the
callback was correct or it is redundant based on the StreamIn()
parameters (SF_RTF | SF_UNICODE), etc.

--

Goran wrote:

Whoops! That went out sooner than I wanted... The above worked for
me, regardless of the file size, using unicode in project settings,
and using rtf in two rather distinctive languages.

I don't know why you use OnCreate. It should work, your code, but...
DDX_Control in DoDataExchange is easier.

Other than that, note a canonical form for any non-trivial
OnInitDialog is e.g:

bool CXDialog::OnInitDialog()
{
  CDialog::OnInitDialog();
  TRY
  {
     InitBabyInit();
  }
  CATCH(CException* pe)
  {
    ReportErrorSomehow(pe);
    EndDialog(PROBABLY_ID_CANCEL); // But it's up to you.
  }
}

It's a bad idea to let exception escape your callback (possible due to
use of MFC in it), so you should e.g. do:

struct RichEditStreamInContext
{
  RichEditStreamInContext(const CString& csFileName) :
m_File(csFileName, CFile::modeRead), m_pError(NULL) {}

  CFile m_File;
  CException* m_pError;
};

static DWORD CALLBACK MyStreamInCallback(DWORD_PTR dwCookie, LPBYTE
pbBuff, LONG cb, LONG *pcb)
{
  RichEditStreamInContext& Ctx =
*reinterpret_cast<RichEditStreamInContext*>(dwCookie);
  try
  {
    *pcb = Ctx.m_File.Read(pbBuff, cb);
    return 0;
  }
  catch (CException* p)
  {
    ASSERT(FALSE);
    Ctx.m_pError = p;
    return -1;
  }
}

and in OnInitDialog:

...
RichEditStreamInContext Ctx(RTF_PATH_HERE);
EDITSTREAM es = { (DWORD_PTR)&Ctx, 0, &MyStreamInCallback };
MCALLBACK)MyStreamInCallback;
m_Edit.StreamIn(SF_RTF, es);
if (es.dwError)
  HandleError(Ctx); // Including looking at Ctx.m_pError;

HTH,

Goran.


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