Re: Center an SDI application on startup

From:
"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
15 Jun 2006 19:14:03 -0700
Message-ID:
<1150424043.469187.85980@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Mark F. wrote:

"JoeB" <joe@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ukwuA$HkGHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Hi,

How simple is it to center an SPI application when it starts up in a
non-maximized window?

J


Here is another cool trick to center the mainframe at 90% of the screen
size. The code is added in the PreCreateWindow function.

--- snip ---
BOOL CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)
{
 if( !CMDIFrameWnd::PreCreateWindow(cs) )
  return FALSE;

 // add this ------------------------------
 int xSize = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
 int ySize = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);
 cs.cx = xSize * 9 / 10;
 cs.cy = ySize * 9 / 10;
 cs.x = (xSize - cs.cx) / 2;
 cs.y = (ySize - cs.cy) / 2;
 // ---------------------------------------

 return CMDIFrameWnd::PreCreateWindow(cs);
}


One minor thing to note on this is that this is for MDI and not SDI. OP
will need to change the base class call appropriately.

----
Ajay

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