I'm realatively new to windows programming, but I've been playing around
with both Borland C++Builder and
Visual C++ for a couple of weeks. I
like Visual C++ better because it gives me more control, but that's
besides the point.
Remember back in the good old days, when you simply did "printf" any
time you wanted to output a debug message or tell the user what's up?
Well, I'd like to replicate that behavior in a GUI environment, but I
haven't found a way to do this that satisfies me.
What I would like is to print messages (error, status, debug messages,
etc) that scroll up as new messages appear. I've seen several
suggestions using copy/paste, StreamIn and the SetSel/ReplaceSel
routine. However, none of these work quite how I want.
The heart of the problem seems to be me relying on the document/view
architecture. These messgaes/views/etc don't need to be associated with
a file. If they are associated with files, I would like to hide that as
much as possible. For example, the title of the window and the title of
the associated file should be different.
I like the child windows not being able to "escape" from their parent
window, but I want them to "dock" to the side (top, bottom, whatever...)
and have a tiny "x" to close them rather than being able maximize as if
it were a text document.
That's another thing. This would not be a document so the user should
not be able to type anything into this window (however, being able to
Copy is not a bad idea).
Put another way, I want a window to behave much the same way that the
"Output Window" behaves in the Visual C++ compiler.
This seems like it should be a pretty standard tool but I can't find
exactly what I'm looking for and that really surprises me. Then again,
I haven't seen too many examples of it, either (the error message box in
Eudora 4.x is another example).
Any help would be much appreciated... even if you just point me to a
good Visual C++ book.
Thanks!
Simple GUI IO