Re: SendMessageToDescendents problem

From:
PloutzMR@Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
3 Aug 2006 06:56:30 -0700
Message-ID:
<1154613390.929682.102540@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
These messages are received fairly infrequently, and so an accurate
time reading is necessary for proper display in each listbox.

A print statement would be printf() in C++...maybe that's the incorrect
term, but all my college courses used it.

And remember, I am new to all this...I don't claim to be an expert :-)

Matt

Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:

Do not under any circumstances put this in the PreTranslateMessage handler. This is
wrong, and a misuse of PreTranslateMessage. Just add to the message map
    ON_MESSAGE(OECM_MESSAGE, OnOecmMessage)
or
    ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE(OECM_MESSAGE, OnOecnMessage)

where you had defined

LRESULT ViewConnections::OnOecmMessage(WPARAM, LPARAM)
    {
      ...format stuff here
     return 0;
    }

Note that this code forces you to read the current time EVERY TIME A MESSAGE IS RECEIVED,
which is completely silly.

The UpdateData is pointless and serves absolutely no useful purpose. There is nothing
here that sets any state that UpdateData is concerned with or manipulates. Get rid of it.

And what, exactly, is a "print statement"?
                joe

On 2 Aug 2006 07:49:45 -0700, PloutzMR@Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil wrote:

Another noob question...

I need to pass a message from a main frame window to one of its
children...the child is created with

    dlg = new Window();
    dlg->Create(IDD_TABHOLDER,this);
    dlg->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

within the main frame. Then the message is sent:

    SendMessageToDescendants(OECM_MESSAGE,0,0,true);

In the child dialog class, I do the following:

BOOL ViewConnections::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
    // TODO: Add your specialized code here and/or call the base class

    CString msg;
    CTime theTime = CTime::GetCurrentTime(); //the current time

    switch (pMsg->message)
    {
        case OECM_MESSAGE:
            msg.Format("{%02d:%02d:%02d} SubSkillsNet Connection
Established",theTime.GetHour(),
theTime.GetMinute(),theTime.GetSecond());
            listbox.AddString(msg);
            UpdateData(false);
            break;
            default:

            break;
    }

    return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}

But the child dialog never receives the message...this was confirmed
with a print statement inside the first case of the switch
statement....Any ideas here?

Thank you!
-Matt

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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