Floating TextBox without buttons

[Mike Doty]

'Can a TextBox be created that can
'stay in a loop without recreating
'the textbox each time? I want to
'use it to accept input at any position
'on a screen or accept multiple lines
'of input. Also, can this be done without
'the OK and Cancel buttons.
'
If the input is blank (result=0) just terminate.
'
'Any help would be appreciated.

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
%IDTEXT     = 100
%IDOK       = 1
%IDCANCEL   = 2
%IDTEXT     = 100
%BS_DEFAULT = 1
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL UserName AS STRING

CALLBACK FUNCTION OkButton()

  CONTROL GET TEXT CBHNDL, %IDTEXT TO UserName
  DIALOG END CBHNDL, 1

END FUNCTION

CALLBACK FUNCTION CancelButton()

  DIALOG END CBHNDL, 0

END FUNCTION

'------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

  #REGISTER NONE

  LOCAL hDlg   AS LONG
  LOCAL result AS LONG
  LOCAL answer AS STRING
  DIM x AS LONG
  DIM Style AS LONG
  DIM DEFAULT AS STRING

top:
' ** Create a new dialog template
  DIALOG NEW 0, "Click Cancel to end", ,, 320, 40, 0, 0 TO hDlg


' ** Add controls to it
  style& = %ES_Center
  default$ = ""
  CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX, hDlg, %IDTEXT, Default$, 10,  1, 300, 12, 0
  CONTROL ADD BUTTON, hDlg, %IDOK, "OK", 10, 22, 40, 14, %BS_DEFAULT CALL OkButton
  CONTROL ADD BUTTON, hDlg, %IDCANCEL, "Cancel", 84, 22, 40, 14, 0 CALL CancelButton

' ** Display the dialog
    DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg TO result
' ** Check the result
     'IF result THEN MSGBOX UserName
     IF result THEN GOTO top
END FUNCTION

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[This message has been edited by Mike Doty (edited February 27, 2001).]

[Bern Ertl]

Mike, have you tried creating a MODELESS dialog with a textbox?

You can then use a loop to process any user input in the box.

Ie.:

DIALOG NEW 0, "I won't go away!",,,320,40,0,0 TO hTBDlg
CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX, hTBDlg, %IDTEXT, Default$, 10,  1, 300, 12, 0


'Make your main dialogs MODELESS also here...


DIALOG SHOW MODELESS hTBDlg 'Use callback if desired to process textbox


DO
   DIALOG DOEVENTS


'or process textbox here....
   CONTROL GET TEXT hTBDlg, %IDTEXT TO TextVar$
   'Process TextVar$


   'Process main dialog here or in a callback


   CONTROL GET SIZE hMainDlg TO X&, X&
LOOP UNTIL X& = 0

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Bernard Ertl



[This message has been edited by Bern Ertl (edited February 27, 2001).]

[Mike Doty]

'Can anyone get the following to work?
'This could turn into a very useful input routine

'Modeless textbox  will attempt input mask later

'1 Get Enter or Esc to exit
'2 CONTROL GET SIZE hDlg, %IDText TO x&, x&  'what is x& for?
'3 Can each keystroke be trapped?
'4 Loop until x& = 0  x& never equals 0


#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
#REGISTER NONE
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
%IDTEXT     = 100
%IDOK       = 1
%IDCANCEL   = 2
%IDTEXT     = 100
%BS_DEFAULT = 1
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL UserName AS STRING

'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
  LOCAL hDlg   AS LONG
  LOCAL result AS LONG
  LOCAL answer AS STRING
  DIM x AS LONG
  DIM Style AS LONG

  DIALOG NEW 0, "Press Enter or Esc to end   (10 characters exits)", ,, 320, 40, 0, 0 TO hDlg
  CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX, hDlg, %IDTEXT, Answer$, 10,  1, 300, 12, 0
  style& = %ES_Center
  DIALOG SHOW MODELESS hDlg
  DO
    DIALOG DOEVENTS
    CONTROL GET TEXT hDlg, %IDText TO Answer$
    'CONTROL GET SIZE hDlg TO 300,12   'can't use 300,12
    'can't put in width and height as variables?
    CONTROL GET SIZE hDlg, %IDText TO x&, x& 'x&,x&
    BEEP             'just seeing if loop is running
    SLEEP 0
  LOOP UNTIL LEN(Answer$) > 10   '10 characters a way out
  DIALOG END hDlg                'added this
  MSGBOX Answer$ + CHR$(34) + STR$(x) + CHR$(34)
END FUNCTION

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[Lance Edmonds]

in all honesty, this is the wrong approach to successfully make a masked-input edit control - this approach is almost "fighting" the standard edit control's behavior, and is highly inefficient since the loop is running constantly, even when there is no activity relative to the edit control.

you should either subclass the edit control and handle it "from inside"; or work with the notification messages that are sent to the dialog callback function (ie, %wm_command|%en_update, etc); or a combination of the two.

an in-depth tutorial on this is really beyond the bounds of this forum (since the topic is relatively complicated), however, i posted an example on subclassing a ddt textbox control in the source code forum many moons ago (aug 99) - see:

for detailed information on working with edit controls, i highly recommend rector/newcomer's "win32 programming". see http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...hread.php?t=39

i hope this helps!


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lance
powerbasic support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</a>

[Bern Ertl]

Mike, Lance is correct. Your original question was not very clear,
so I gave you a simple outline how you could achieve a persistent
edit box without having to create/destroy.

My outline assumed that you would have more than one dialog running.
Why have a 'floating edit box' if there is no other dialog? The

CONTROL GET SIZE hMainDlg TO X&, X&

statement was meant to check for the closing of your (other) main
dialog. When X& = 0 the dialog no longer exists - either you executed
a DIALOG END statement or the user clicked the system box (little X
box in in the upper right corner). Note that the statement specifies
hMainDlg and not hDlg.



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Bernard Ertl

[Borje Hagsten]

Maybe something like this can be of help:

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' Modal, "floating" input box. Only one way out, except 3-finger
' salute or pull plug - to write some text and press the Enter key..
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#COMPILE EXE
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
 
%ID_TEXT = 10                         'Id for textbox
GLOBAL oldTxtproc AS LONG             'for address of original textbox procedure
DECLARE CALLBACK FUNCTION DlgProc
DECLARE CALLBACK FUNCTION TextWndProc
 
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FUNCTION PBMAIN
  LOCAL hDlg AS LONG, hEdit AS LONG
 
  DIALOG NEW 0, "Programmer's logic:", , , 120, 46, %WS_CAPTION, 0 TO hDlg
  SetWindowPos hDlg, %HWND_TOPMOST, 0,0,0,0, %SWP_NOMOVE OR %SWP_NOSIZE 'Set dialog as TopMost
 
  CONTROL ADD LABEL, hDlg, -1, "Press Enter to Exit:", 2, 2, 114, 10
  CONTROL ADD TEXTBOX, hDlg, %ID_TEXT, "", 2, 12, 116, 32, %WS_CHILD OR %ES_MULTILINE OR _
                             %WS_VSCROLL, %WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE CALL DlgProc
  CONTROL HANDLE hDlg, %ID_TEXT TO hEdit
 
  oldTxtproc = SetWindowLong(hEdit, %GWL_WNDPROC, CODEPTR(TextWndProc)) 'Subclass Edit control
  SetFocus hEdit                                                        'Give textbox focus
 
  DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg CALL DlgProc                                   'Modal is okay here
 
  IF oldTxtproc THEN SetWindowLong hEdit, %GWL_WNDPROC, oldTxtproc      'Restore from subclass at exit
END FUNCTION
 
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' Main dialog's message handler
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CALLBACK FUNCTION DlgProc
  SELECT CASE CBMSG
     CASE %WM_COMMAND
       IF CBCTL = %WM_USER + 1 AND CBCTLMSG = %BN_CLICKED THEN DIALOG END CBHNDL
  END SELECT
END FUNCTION
 
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' Textbox's subclassed message handler
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CALLBACK FUNCTION TextWndProc
  SELECT CASE CBMSG
     CASE %WM_KEYDOWN                    'Trap keyboard input here
        IF CBWPARAM = %VK_RETURN THEN    'If Enter key was pressed
           LOCAL txt AS STRING
           CONTROL GET TEXT GetParent(CBHNDL), %ID_TEXT TO txt 'Get Text
 
           SetWindowPos GetParent(CBHNDL), _
                        %HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0,0,0,0, %SWP_NOMOVE OR %SWP_NOSIZE 'Remove TopMost
 
           IF LEN(TRIM$(txt)) = 0 THEN
              MSGBOX "Please enter your secret code!", %MB_OK, "CIA message" 'Whatever..
              SetWindowPos GetParent(CBHNDL), _
                           %HWND_TOPMOST, 0,0,0,0, %SWP_NOMOVE OR %SWP_NOSIZE 'Set TopMost again
              SetFocus CBHNDL                             'Set focus back to textbox
              EXIT FUNCTION                               'Cancel process
              
           ELSE
              MSGBOX "You wrote: " & txt, %MB_OK, "OKAY!" 'Show what user entered
           END IF                                         'and close the program, if you like..
           SendMessage GetParent(CBHNDL), %WM_COMMAND, MAKLNG(%WM_USER + 1, %BN_CLICKED), CBHNDL
           FUNCTION = 0 : EXIT FUNCTION
        END IF
 
  END SELECT
  FUNCTION = CallWindowProc(oldTxtproc, CBHNDL, CBMSG, CBWPARAM, CBLPARAM)
END FUNCTION

Okay, saw you wanted it to close on no input. Just change the last
check code above to make it act like you want..
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[This message has been edited by Borje Hagsten (edited February 28, 2001).]