wxCoolBar (wxMSW Only)

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wxCoolBar (wxMSW Only)

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http://www.planet-berlin-it.de/wx/wxcoolbar/

Found that somebody linked to it on the other forum, and thought some of you people will find it usefull! :)
What wxCoolBar is ...
wxCoolBar is a wrapper around the mickeysoft rebar control for use with the famous wxWidgets gui library. So developers can easily add the nice looking toolbars known from ms ie or other applications to their existing wxWidgets apps. Only if compiled against wxMSW on Win<95 of course.
Without wxCoolBar:
Image

With wxCoolBar:
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Post by MartinSfromB »

Solved problems of wxCoolBar with Win2k!

Just test it and send more bug reports and feature requests! :D

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Post by gururamnath »

Hi Martin,
It seems VC++ is choking with some of the code.
Have a look at line number,

701: wxAcceleratorEntry entries1[count];
711: wxAcceleratorEntry entries[arr.GetCount()];

I fixed the problem by creating the entries using new and delete them after the for loop like

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	wxAcceleratorEntry *entries1= new wxAcceleratorEntry[count];
       int count = m_menubar->GetMenu(i)->CopyAccels(entries1);
       for (int c = 0; c < count; c++)
       {
        arr.Add(entries1[c]);
       }
	   delete []entries1;
and

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     wxAcceleratorEntry *entries = new wxAcceleratorEntry[arr.GetCount()];
     for (unsigned i = 0; i < arr.GetCount(); i++)
     {
        entries[i] = arr[i];
     }
     wxAcceleratorTable accel(arr.GetCount(), entries);
     GetParentFrame()->SetAcceleratorTable(accel); 
    delete []entries;
I also found that using wxDevC++ generated code, it will be hard to use the outer level sizer directly to remove and add the child controls. In the enable toolbar function, instead of the Outer Sizer variable, I use
GetSizer() function to manipulate the Sizer. Hope this will be useful to people using VC++.

Thank you so much for providing this wonder component. I'm sure it gives a great face lift to the applications created with wxWidgets.

-Guru Kathiresan[/code]
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Post by MartinSfromB »

I will have a look at this in the afternoon.
Key-Navigation an behaviour of menubar are not finished yet. There is a lot to do till release 1.0 :-)
Thanks for working on it!
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Post by lowjoel »

hi,

im using wxwidgets 2.6.1, and apparently mingw chokes on line #200 of wxCoolBar.cpp in the provided sample. ("no match for operator [] in childrec[c]"). Am i missing something, or is this release not fine tuned for 2.6.1?

Thanks,
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Post by MartinSfromB »

Sorry, i can't find any childrec[c] in wxCoolBar.cpp, so i don't know what could be the problem.

For myself i'm working with mingw and the actual cvs-version of wxWidgets. I Tested wxCoolBar with 2.5.4, 2.6.0, 2.6.1. Sorry.
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Post by tiwag »

MartinSfromB wrote:Sorry, i can't find any childrec[c] in wxCoolBar.cpp, so i don't know what could be the problem.

For myself i'm working with mingw and the actual cvs-version of wxWidgets. I Tested wxCoolBar with 2.5.4, 2.6.0, 2.6.1. Sorry.
it works pretty well with wxMSW2.6.1 here by me,
thanks for this cool code !
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Post by lowjoel »

hmmm might be my libraries.... but miraculously this time it compiled.... weird.... but thanks anyway :D
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Post by lowjoel »

how do we get the rebar to resize?
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Post by gururamnath »

lowjoel wrote:how do we get the rebar to resize?
How did you added the Coolbar to the Frame ? I first dropped a top level BoxSizer and set it to vertical alignment and then added yet another BoxSizer where the actual widgets are loaded. Then in GUI code construction, I prepend the Toolbar object; This makes the Toolbar and the secondary Sizers to be children of the TopLevel Sizer. So the Code looks something like :

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bool TPMainFrm::EnableCoolBar()
{
#if defined (__WXMSW__)
	m_coolBar = new wxCoolBar(this,-1);
	SetToolBar(NULL);
	SetMenuBar(NULL);
	m_coolBar->AddBand(WxMenuBar1);
	m_coolBar->AddBand(WxToolBar1, true);
	GetSizer()->Prepend(m_coolBar, 0, wxGROW|wxALL,0);
	GetSizer()->Layout();
	return true;
#else
	return false;
#endif
}
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Post by lowjoel »

the second sizer is within the coolbar? You have the ctor code?
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Post by gururamnath »

lowjoel wrote:the second sizer is within the coolbar? You have the ctor code?
Joel,
Here is the ctor. Hope this will be helpful.

-Guru Kathiresan

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void JoelTestFrm::CreateGUIControls(void)
{
    //Do not add custom Code here
    //wx-devcpp designer will remove them.
    //Add the custom code before or after the Blocks
    ////GUI Items Creation Start

	wxBoxSizer* WxBoxSizer1 = new wxBoxSizer(wxVERTICAL);
	this->SetSizer(WxBoxSizer1);
	this->SetAutoLayout(TRUE);

	wxBoxSizer* WxBoxSizer2 = new wxBoxSizer(wxHORIZONTAL);
	WxBoxSizer1->Add(WxBoxSizer2,0,wxALIGN_CENTER_HORIZONTAL | wxALL,5);

	WxListCtrl1 = new wxListCtrl(this, ID_WXLISTCTRL1, wxPoint(-11,-17), wxSize(394,127), wxLC_REPORT);
	WxListCtrl1->InsertColumn(0,_("Two"),wxLIST_FORMAT_LEFT,150 );
	WxListCtrl1->InsertColumn(0,_("One"),wxLIST_FORMAT_LEFT,218 );
	WxBoxSizer2->Add(WxListCtrl1,0,wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL | wxALL,5);

	WxToolBar1 = new wxToolBar(this, ID_WXTOOLBAR1, wxPoint(0,0), wxSize(412,29), wxTB_TEXT);

	wxBitmap WxToolButton1_BITMAP (wxNullBitmap);
	wxBitmap WxToolButton1_DISABLE_BITMAP (wxNullBitmap);
	WxToolBar1->AddTool(ID_WXTOOLBUTTON1, _("One"), WxToolButton1_BITMAP, WxToolButton1_DISABLE_BITMAP, wxITEM_NORMAL, _(""), _(""));

	wxBitmap WxToolButton2_BITMAP (wxNullBitmap);
	wxBitmap WxToolButton2_DISABLE_BITMAP (wxNullBitmap);
	WxToolBar1->AddTool(ID_WXTOOLBUTTON2, _("Two"), WxToolButton2_BITMAP, WxToolButton2_DISABLE_BITMAP, wxITEM_NORMAL, _(""), _(""));

	WxMenuBar1 =  new wxMenuBar();
	wxMenu *ID_MNU_FILE_1007_Mnu_Obj = new wxMenu(0);
	WxMenuBar1->Append(ID_MNU_FILE_1007_Mnu_Obj, _("File"));
	
	wxMenu *ID_MNU_HELP_1008_Mnu_Obj = new wxMenu(0);
	WxMenuBar1->Append(ID_MNU_HELP_1008_Mnu_Obj, _("Help"));
	
	
	this->SetMenuBar(WxMenuBar1);

	WxToolBar1->Realize();
	this->SetToolBar(WxToolBar1);
	GetSizer()->Fit(this);
	GetSizer()->SetSizeHints(this);
	this->SetTitle(_("JoelTest"));
	this->Center();
	this->SetIcon(wxNullIcon);
	
    ////GUI Items Creation End
    EnableCoolBar();
}
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Post by lowjoel »

Somehow that yeilds this: <img src="http://joelsplace.sg/wxCoolBar.png" alt="wxCoolBar">
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Post by gururamnath »

I think I misunderstood the question. Sorry.

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its ok ;)
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