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Started by Skute November 11, 2004 05:23 AM

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Skute

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November 11, 2004 05:23 AM

Hi, im having trouble trying to set button text on my toolbar from a string table in the resources. im using the following code but the ID of the string thats been added is always -1:


  iStringID[0] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), static_cast<WPARAM>(MAKELONG(IDS_NEW, 0)));
  iStringID[1] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), static_cast<WPARAM>(MAKELONG(IDS_OPEN, 0)));
  iStringID[2] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), static_cast<WPARAM>(MAKELONG(IDS_SAVE, 0)));

	ZeroMemory(tbb, sizeof(tbb));
	tbb[0].iBitmap   = STD_FILENEW;
	tbb[0].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[0].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[0].idCommand = ID_FILE_NEW;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[0];

	tbb[1].iBitmap   = STD_FILEOPEN;
	tbb[1].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[1].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[1].idCommand = ID_FILE_OPEN;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[1];

	tbb[2].iBitmap   = STD_FILESAVE;
	tbb[2].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[2].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[2].idCommand = ID_FILE_SAVEAS;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[2];

I also tried the following, but this didnt work either:


iStringID[0] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_NEW)));
  iStringID[1] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_OPEN)));
  iStringID[2] = SendMessage(m_hToolBar, TB_ADDSTRING, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(m_hInstance), reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_SAVE)));

	ZeroMemory(tbb, sizeof(tbb));
	tbb[0].iBitmap   = STD_FILENEW;
	tbb[0].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[0].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[0].idCommand = ID_FILE_NEW;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[0];

	tbb[1].iBitmap   = STD_FILEOPEN;
	tbb[1].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[1].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[1].idCommand = ID_FILE_OPEN;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[1];

	tbb[2].iBitmap   = STD_FILESAVE;
	tbb[2].fsState   = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
	tbb[2].fsStyle   = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
	tbb[2].idCommand = ID_FILE_SAVEAS;
  tbb[0].iString   = iStringID[2];

Any help is much appreciated. PS. How can i compile multiple language tables into 1 exe? ie, i want to have a string table for english, german, french etc, but i dont want to compile and exe separately for each language? Cheers

Mark Ingramhttp://www.mark-ingram.com

Endurion

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November 11, 2004 06:08 AM

I can't help with the toolbar, but about the string tables:

When you've created one string table in your project you can right click it and choose "add copy". A popup dialog will appear asking for the language id of the copy.

After that point you have two (or more) string tables. If you're using LoadString it will automagically choose the best fit. If you want to change language programmatically you're screwed as there is no such function.

In that case you can load the strings yourself:

std::string CWinUtils::LoadStringEx( DWORD dwResourceId, WORD wLanguage ){  std::string   strTemp( "" );  int nBlock = dwResourceId / 16 + 1;  int nNum = dwResourceId & 0x0f;  HRSRC hRes = FindResourceEx( GetModuleHandle( NULL ), RT_STRING, MAKEINTRESOURCE( nBlock ), wLanguage );  if ( hRes == NULL )  {    return "";  }  HGLOBAL hGlobal = LoadResource( GetModuleHandle( NULL ), hRes );  if ( hGlobal == NULL )  {    return "";  }  WCHAR*   pData = (WCHAR*)LockResource( hGlobal );  WORD    wStringLength = 0;  if ( pData )  {        for ( int i = 0; i < nNum; ++i )    {      wStringLength = (WORD)*pData;      pData += 1 + wStringLength;    }    wStringLength = (WORD)*pData;    ++pData;    char*      pTemp = new char[wStringLength + 1];    WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0, (WCHAR*)pData, wStringLength, pTemp, wStringLength, 0, 0 );    pTemp[wStringLength] = 0;    strTemp = pTemp;    delete[] pTemp;  }  UnlockResource( hGlobal );  FreeResource( hGlobal );  return strTemp;}

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Skute

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November 11, 2004 08:14 AM

ok cool, thanks for that :)

Mark Ingramhttp://www.mark-ingram.com

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