RC3: Unnecessary icon in menubar

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Dreamer wrote:Image

Anoyne use (need) that icon (in menu bar) at all?
Hm, until now I didn't use it - but I'm using xnView since RC1.

But I think you all know for what to use these icons - right?

It's for something like that:

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Lesmo16 wrote:But I think you all know for what to use these icons - right?

It's for something like that:

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Right, thanks for bringing that one in. XnView always was and still is an MDI application (Multiple Document Interface). The icon in the top left corner is simply the system menu for the child window. Since most people use XnView with maximized child windows, there's little use for these icons. But for those people that do use MDI (with non-maximized windows), it can be helpful.

On the left you have the two system menus (Parent window & child window) which we are currently discussing about, one the right side you have the same "problem" with Minimized, Maximized and Close.

This could be changed only if XnView left the MDI concept completely behind, but this is a really big and long discussion. Not in 1.80, please.

So currently I'd say: It's a feature, not a bug. ;-)
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I don't think that somebody use MDI with unmaximized windows in xnview, I would say that this is very uncomfortable for viewing images, since we are not edit them like in Photoshop where you can't imagine work without unmaximized windows.
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Dreamer wrote:Image

Anoyne use (need) that icon (in menu bar) at all?
I can't remove these icons, windows add them because it's MDI childs.
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That's because of MDI implementation you use in xnview code, maybe there are some other librarys for making MDI tabs in C++.

BTW, I've already found some new solutions. Check this:
http://www.codeproject.com/tabctrl/mditabs.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/docview/tabbedmdi.asp
http://www.wndtabs.com/
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EgoSun wrote:That's because of MDI implementation you use in xnview code, maybe there are some other librarys for making MDI tabs in C++.

BTW, I've already found some new solutions. Check this:
http://www.codeproject.com/tabctrl/mditabs.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/docview/tabbedmdi.asp
http://www.wndtabs.com/
Sorry i don't understand, when you have MDI child (browser, view, ...), you have these icons. Even on examples found...
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Wow, I didn't notice that, he he.

Can you say me, which way do you implement MDI in xnview (MFC, FCL).
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i'd like to see XnView at least optionally not MDI. but you're right, this is for the next version, not for 1.80.
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EgoSun wrote:Wow, I didn't notice that, he he.

Can you say me, which way do you implement MDI in xnview (MFC, FCL).
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Post by ckit »

You could re-write XnView in WTL....

WTL or Windows Template Library is a "new" set of lightweight templates/classes which wrap most of the user interface aspects of modern windows programming. It was developed within mikros~1 as an extension of ATL, and although not "officially" supported it kicks plain ass. If only there was some docking toolbar functionality it would become the defacto tool for all UI programming aspects. But we're working on that...

This was taken from the "editor2.txt" in xplorer2 lite.
Despite what it says above xplorer2 lite does have dockable toolbars.
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:arrow: xnview

can you post here a header file (*.h) which you use to create MDI
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EgoSun wrote::arrow: xnview
can you post here a header file (*.h) which you use to create MDI
A .h????
Here is the code:

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MDICREATESTRUCT mcs;
...
hWnd = (HWND )SendMessage( hWndClient, WM_MDICREATE, 0, (LPARAM )&mcs );  
Why?
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xnview
can you post here all #include <blablabla> lines
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EgoSun wrote:xnview
can you post here all #include <blablabla> lines
I don't understand why do you want headers??? I use #include <windows.h> only
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Post by EgoSun »

:arrow: xnview

I want to modify this header file, so that there is no icon in menu bar :wink:

Edit: Now I understand, it does not depend on a header file, it depends on comdlg32.dll :)
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