Re: On-the-fly edit alignment mysteriously works
<davidpritchard@ctv.es> wrote in message
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Here's a mystery that I hope someone might be able to solve. In my
application, I innocently added a "text alignment" option to a context
menu in my screen designer, supposedly allowing the alignment of edit
controls ... to be changed on the fly.
The thing is, it actually WORKS on my development machine. It was only
when users started complaining that it did nothing that I begin
digging, and found all the threads on Usenet explaining that on-the-fly
alignment changing couldn't be done. Indeed, on two other machines
where I've tried the application, changing the styles does nothing. And
yet on my development machine (in debug and release), the alignment
changes as intended. In edits...
Are we talking about ES_LEFT, ES_RIGHT and ES_CENTER via SetWindowLong? Keep
in mind that it is documented not to work, so even if it does work -- for
some reason, it is an anomoly.
All are XP SP1. The application uses XP visual styles. It's all written
with Visual Studio 6/MFC. The only big difference is that the
development machine is English, whereas the others are Spanish.
However, I tried using the multilanguage option to switch my machine to
Spanish and alignment changing still worked.
This is just a guess -- so sorry in advance. Can you say whether the
machine(s) where it works have any language pack(s) installed, and whether
the machines(s) where it doesn't work don't?
--
Jeff Partch [VC++ MVP]