Re: Special charaters are displayed in inverted order by CTreeCtrl

From:
=?Utf-8?B?bWlsb25hc3M=?= <milonass@discussions.microsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:31:42 -0700
Message-ID:
<74FE5A25-0B98-4D3C-B356-4A5F72BBB120@microsoft.com>
Thank you for this answer. The class CFileSystem has no influence on the
appearence of the text string in the tree item. This can easily proven by
substituting the line

text = CString(d);

by

text = "C:";

The result in the tree item is the same: ":C".

I already explained that implicitly by saying that message box displays the
text correctly.

Regards,
Thomas

"Joseph M. Newcomer" wrote:

See below...
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 00:36:32 -0700, milonass <milonass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I build a file browser like tree with CTreeCtrl. Now, if the control has to
display a drive like "C:", it instead displays ":C". The same happens with
"Program Files (x86)" which is displayed as ")Program Files (x86". So, it
seems that if the the last character is a special character, it becomes the
first character in display name.
Is this a unicode problem? Anyway, very strange.

Here is my coding:

CFileSystem fs;

****
CFileSystem? I cannot find this in the documentation anywhere. If you are using classes
from someplace else, you need to give us a pointer to where you found them
****

     wchar_t d[3];
    LPTVINSERTSTRUCTW itemstruc = NULL;
    CString text;

   //Load static images
   m_FileViewImages.Create(IDB_FILE_VIEW, 16, 0, RGB(0,0,0));
    //Set image list
   this->SetImageList(&m_FileViewImages, TVSIL_NORMAL);
    //Set 24 bit bitmaps for static images
   this->ChangeVisualStyle( );

    int num = fs.GetNumberDrives( );
    for(int j = 1; j<num+1; j++){
     //Get drive name
     fs.GetDriveByNumber(j,d);
****
Since we have no idea what CFileSystem is or does, showing us a line of code that invokes
an undefined method of an undefined class seems rather pointless.

Note also that this is obviously a class designed by a beginner, because it does not
require passing the _countof(d) in as a parameter. Therefore, it is not really
trustworthy.

How do you expect us to analyze code that uses unknown and unfindable classes? I found at
least three completely different classes called "CFileSystem" using google, at which point
I gave up, because you are obviously expecting us to know, possibly by ethereal
vibrations, exactly which of these you are using. And your question can be pretty much
answered by the explanation "GetDriveByNumber is written incorrectly, fix it", so what do
you expect us to do about this?
****

      text = CString(d);
     if(fs.IsDriveActive(d)==TRUE){
       itemstruc = new TVINSERTSTRUCTW;

****
Why do you have this odd mix of Unicode-aware coding (CString, not CStringW) and
Unicode-only code (wchar_t, TVINSERTSTRUCTW, WCHAR *)? Or were you relying on
Intellinonsense to "help" you write code?

And why, for goodness sake, are you doing a 'new' here? Have you considered just
declaring the structure on the stack? Using a 'new' here is completely silly!
****

       itemstruc->hParent = NULL;
        //Set item mask
       itemstruc->item.mask = TVIF_CHILDREN|TVIF_HANDLE|TVIF_IMAGE|
                              TVIF_STATE|TVIF_TEXT|TVIF_SELECTEDIMAGE;
        //Set state mask
       itemstruc->item.stateMask = TVIS_BOLD|TVIS_OVERLAYMASK|TVIS_SELECTED;
       itemstruc->item.cChildren = 1;
        itemstruc->item.pszText = (WCHAR*)text.GetBuffer( );
       itemstruc->item.cchTextMax = 3;

****
On a SetItemState, you do not need to provide the text length, since the string is
NUL-terminated
****

         itemstruc->item.iImage = 3;
****
I have no idea what "3" means. Have you ever heard of #define or const int to define
symbolic names?
****

         itemstruc->item.iSelectedImage = 3;
****
Ditto
***

        HTREEITEM item = InsertItem(itemstruc);
****
You probably used 'new' because the specification of InsertItem wants a
pointer-to-TVINSERTSTRUCT. Have you ever heard of the "&" operator?

    TVINSERTSTRUCT itemstruc;
    ... fill in values
    HTREEITEM Item = InsertItem(&itemstruc);
****

         SetItemState(item,TVIS_BOLD,TVIS_BOLD);
       //SetItemState(item,TVIS_SELECTED,TVIS_SELECTED);
        delete itemstruc;
     }
    }

Any ideas are really appreciated.

****
Single-stepping the GetDriveByNumber code and seeing where it is wrong would be a really
good start.

If you want help, you have to give us enough information to help you.
                joe
****

Thomas


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