Re: How to display a text file dynamically?
- From: Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:01:08 -0500
Take a look at my Logging Listbox on my MVP Tips site. It might give you some ideas (feel
free to use as much of the code as you want).
joe
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:17:49 -0700, decentjohn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 29, 12:28 am, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
As demonstrated in my Locale Explorer and in my PowerPoint Indexer, you can do an
owner-draw control and get boldface, colors, or anything else you want in a CListBox or
CListCtrl. There are even documents that show the algorithms. You can also do word-wrap
if you do an owner-draw-variable control.
I urge avoiding the edit control entirely. It is slow, bulky, and intractable for this
purpose.
joe
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:52:12 -0400, "Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>
wrote:
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I need to show a large text file ( <10M) to users in a dialog.
Meanwhile, the file is being appened with more data by a seperate
process.
I have little experience with MFC. I guess I should use RichEditCtrl
for this case. But I'm not sure if I should use SetDlgItemText(..) to
send file content to the control. This is Question 1.
Secondly, I'd like send only the newly appended part of the file to
the control for every refresh, instead of the whole file everytime.
Are there any existing functions/mechanisms in MFC for this purpose?
If you need the control to do word-wrap for you at the end of lines then use
the edit control. Or if you need the ability to change colors and fonts in
different parts of the text use the rich edit control.
But if you don't need either of these features then the list box is a much
easier way to display scrolling lines of text.
The control's features are the same whether you use MFC or not. MFC just
provides a convenient wrapper around the Win32 control's SendMessage
functions. You can append text to an edit control with SetSel(-1, -1),
followed by ReplaceSel.
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newco...@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web:http://www.flounder.com
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Guys,
Thanks a lot for your very helpful answers!
I don't need the ability of editing, changing fonts/color, word-wrap
and etc. However, I do need to allow user select a continous part of
the data that they can send them to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl-c.
I think I'm convinced that CListBox is the best choice.
-John
email: newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
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