Dynamic resizing

From:

matanasescu@gmail.com

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

16 Oct 2006 11:12:26 -0700

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<1161022346.701536.155700@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

I have an ATL control used to display text.
The control lives inside a CRichEditControl.
The problem is that the application needs to resize the control to fit
the text.
O solution I adopted is to call FieViewChange() inside of OnDraw, after

I calculate the text extent using DC passed as parameter
(CDC::GetTextExtent).
This allows the control to be redrawn inside the boundaries I specify
in the prev call of OnDraw.
So:

CMyComControl::OnDraw(...)
{
        ....
       CRect rcTextSize = pDC->GetTextExtent( strText, nChars );

       if( m_sizeNatural != rcTextSize )
       {
          m_sizeNatural = rcTextSize + some margins
          FireViewChange(); //this will alow OnDraw to be called with
correct margins
       }
      ....

}

However in some specific situations the application crashes. I couldn't

figure out why, but I discovered that removing FireViewChange() from
OnDraw solves the crash.
I believe that calling FireViewChange() inside OnDraw() may be tricky,
but this was the only way I could find to calculate m_sizeNatural
function of text extent (DC dependent).

Is there any other solutions to my problem?
Any comments on this are welcomed.

Thanks

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