Empty combo box in shapes choook

[Duckman]

O man, more problems...I cannot get the combobox to populate...

I've even changed it to be statically set

 

m_create.AddString("1 Point");

 

but it is still empty when the dialog box appears.

 

Please help : ) Thx!

[Bullines]

Did you set up the MSVC environment properly (Ex: shared MFC DLL, mulitthreaded DLL, 1-byte struct member alignment, etc.)?

[Duckman]

yes, i believe so...even though i have no idea what these options are : )

[Bullines]

Assuming you created an MFC DLL project using the default settings, you will already be using MFC as a shared DLL. However, MSVC defaults to an 8-byte alignment for member structs and a debug multithreaded DLL. You 'll have to modify that in the project settings (ALT+F7) to 1-byte and multithreaded DLL, respectively. Also, be certain to add MSWINDOWS and _MSVC_ preprocessor definitions. What version of Mastercam are you using? I've had problems with V7 and various MFC DLLs.

[Duckman]

I am using version 9!

[Bullines]

Ok. In that case, be certain that you've setup the MSVC environment properly (C-Hooks are very picky) and we can further investigate the problem.

[Duckman]

I have double check all the environment variables and they are correct...thanks for you help!

[Bullines]

Where did you call m_create.AddString("1 Point"); from? OnInitDialog() for the dialog?

[Duckman]

BOOL Cshapedlg::OnInitDialog()

{

m_create.InsertString(0,"1 Point");

enable_controls();

return TRUE;

}

 

i've commented everything else out for testing purposes

 

everything is just copy and pasted from the documentation

[Duckman]

when i go into debug, before I load the chook from mastercam, i get

 

error: symbol "m_create" not found

 

in the debug window...

 

but when i look at my member variables in the class wizard, there is a m_create for the combobox...

 

also, in the debug window, there are a whole bunch of

 

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WSOCK32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WS2_32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WS2HELP.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WLDAP32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

 

[ 05-10-2002, 11:44 AM: Message edited by: Duckman ]

[Bullines]

Is your member variable, m_create, declared publicly in the associated header file?

 

quote:

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Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WSOCK32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WS2_32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WS2HELP.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.

Loaded 'C:WINNTsystem32WLDAP32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found

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Why is it trying load DLLs like WinSock? did you add a reference to those?

[Duckman]

yes, m_create is declared public...

 

I don' have a clue why it's trying to load winsock, I didn't add any references other than those indicatd in the manual..where can I check these references?

 

Another problem i am having is that the icons are no loading in the listbox..the words are there, but no icons...could the problems be related?

 

Thanks!

 

[ 05-10-2002, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Duckman ]

[Bullines]

quote:

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I don' have a clue why it's trying to load winsock, I didn't add any references other than those indicatd in the manual..where can I check these references?

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Try looking in external depenancies.

 

quote:

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Another problem i am having is that the icons are no loading in the listbox..the words are there, but no icons...could the problems be related?

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I too had this problem before with V7 (it vanished when V8 was released). Mastercam appeared to use its own MFC DLL in its own directory ,and disregarded the one in the Windows System or System32 directory (PDG could verify this for us). If I tried to overwrite the one in the Mastercam directory with a more recent version from my System32 directory, weird MFC errors would happen such as missing images (ICO, BMP, etc.). A sometimes alternate solution I used was to declare the instance of the dialog (pre DoModal()) globally. To this day, I have no idea why it worked, but it did

[Duckman]

please pardon my ignorance, but where do i check external dependencies? and how do i do the DoModal()?

 

Thanks!

[Duckman]

where should the .ico files be located? right now I have a my C++ project in C:chook dev kitshapes

and the shapes.dll, *.ico and shapes.txt are located there...i tried moving all the files to C:mill9chook but it still doesn't work...

 

all your help is greatly appreciated!

[Bullines]

It doesn't really matter where the icons are located on your hard drive. Personally, I keep mine in the res sub directory of the project I'm working on at the time. You just have to make sure you import those files into the project. If worse comes to worse, you can always edit the paths manually in the RC file in the root directory of your project.

[Duckman]

but after i build the dll, does it matter where i put the .ico?

 

in my external dependencies i only have m_*.h files and basetsd.h

[Bullines]

and how do i do the DoModal()?

 

You'll need a call to DoModal() somewhere in, say, your main CPP file. Ex:

 

code:

---

// declare a variable for the dialog

CYourDlg dlgTheDialog;

 

if(dlg.DoModal() == IDOK)

{

// code to handle what happens if the user clicks OK button

}

else

{

// code to handle other stuff

}

---

[Bullines]

quote:

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does it matter where i put the .ico?

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No, those icons are are built into the EXE/DLL upon link (assuming the compiler knows where to find them in the first place). You could dynamically load them, but it generally isn't neccessary.

[Duckman]

okay cool thanks...but although I still can't get it to work argh! : )

[Bullines]

Perhaps try starting a new project.