Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps modem
(460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really simple
program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap "1.bmp" in
a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap from "1.bmp"
to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Hi,

Go into the resource editor
Add resource (make sure to add a Bitmap resource)
Import
( Select a bmp file)
Rename the IDB_BITMAP1 to something more sensible

Go to the dialog resource (double click on it)
Add picture control
Click picture control (make sure the properties window is visible
(view->properties))
In the properites of the picture control select bitmap as type
In the Image properties select the IDB_ whatever you named your bitmap
resource in the first step.

--


Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://moonlit.xs4all.nl

"Divvy Ballacks" <dead@forty2004.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1144581864.69032.0@dyke.uk.clara.net...[color=blue]
>I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps modem
>(460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really simple
>program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap "1.bmp"
>in a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap from
>"1.bmp" to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?
>[/color]

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Divvy Ballacks wrote:[color=blue]
> I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps modem
> (460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really simple
> program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap "1.bmp" in
> a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap from "1.bmp"
> to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?[/color]

Its not very difficult and what help on C++ do you expect from us?

Ben

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Divvy Ballacks wrote:[color=blue]
> I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps modem
> (460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really simple
> program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap "1.bmp" in
> a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap from "1.bmp"
> to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?[/color]

This group is very specifically for the C++ language and standard
library, not generally tools, APIs or other libraries. You might try
asking on

microsoft.public.vstudio.general
microsoft.public.vstudio.development
microsoft.public.vc_ide.general

and possibly others.

Gregg

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Moonlit wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Go into the resource editor[/color]

Express edition does not have it.

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

"Resource editing is not supported on the Visual C++ Express SKU". That told
me!!

"Moonlit" <news moonlit xs4all nl> wrote in message
news:4438ff44$0$11077$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Go into the resource editor
> Add resource (make sure to add a Bitmap resource)
> Import
> ( Select a bmp file)
> Rename the IDB_BITMAP1 to something more sensible
>
> Go to the dialog resource (double click on it)
> Add picture control
> Click picture control (make sure the properties window is visible
> (view->properties))
> In the properites of the picture control select bitmap as type
> In the Image properties select the IDB_ whatever you named your bitmap
> resource in the first step.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards, Ron AF Greve
>
> http://moonlit.xs4all.nl
>
> "Divvy Ballacks" <dead@forty2004.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1144581864.69032.0@dyke.uk.clara.net...[color=green]
>>I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps
>>modem (460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really
>>simple program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap
>>"1.bmp" in a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap
>>from "1.bmp" to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Well, if it's not very difficult then just tell me. It can't be more than
three lines of code. I have no books, no money, no resources. What is the
solution? Or it so simple that it's actually beneath you? Let me help:

Is it (a), (b) or (c) or (d)

(a)
Bitmap ^myBitmap = gcnew Bitmap(71, 96, PixelFormat::Format24bppRgb)
Image->FromFile("44.bmp");

Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(myBitmap);



(b)

Image ^mypiccie = gcnew

Image("12.jpg");

Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(mypiccie);

(c)

System::Graphics::Watuzi
^ ->(0XXFFF:__IF__BETHE_MIDDLE_WORDIN___XXAAFFCC___LI FE);

^^::->Draw().... <-) [BITM]___#define
SHISHI_KDCREQ_DEFAULT_REQ_BODY_SNAME_NAME_TYPE_LEN 0__
Nghrrew||GrrrrrrrrgUggggggggh

Yeah_Bitmaps::



(d)

None of the above.



You see, the thing is, all I have is the documentation provided with
VC++EE2005 and it's not very helpful and none of their sample projects from
www.microsoft.com will compile (keep getting user32.dll missing, cannot find
windows.h or whatever) because I only have the core SDK installed.



"benben" <benhongh@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:4438ff7f$0$20111$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...[color=blue]
> Divvy Ballacks wrote:[color=green]
>> I just downloaded this "can't give it away" pile of sick on my 56Kbps
>> modem (460Mb) and I can't believe how difficult it is to write a really
>> simple program. All I wanna do is have a form with a button and a bitmap
>> "1.bmp" in a picture box. When you clcik the button it changes the bitmap
>> from "1.bmp" to " 2.bmp". How difficult can it be? Can anyone help?[/color]
>
> Its not very difficult and what help on C++ do you expect from us?
>
> Ben[/color]

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

* Divvy Ballacks:[color=blue]
> [off-topic][/color]

Divvy, I've been in your exact situation with a lot of toolsets, and I
really do understand how you feel about this, and would provide you with
detailed instructions and explanations if this newsgroup was relevant.

But this newsgroup is /not/ the right place.

Repeat, /not/.

Here we deal with the C++ language, and only tool usage and libraries to
the extent that that is relevant to C++ in general.

This newsgroup was nearly destroyed by Microsoft newbies, which directly
led to [comp.lang.c++.moderated] being established: we don't want /all/
serious C++ discussion to move over to clc++m, because that's very slow.

So please take your discussion to a Microsoft-specific newsgroup.

This group's FAQ, Marshall Cline's C++ FAQ Lite, lists a number of them.

--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:09:48 +0100, "Divvy Ballacks"
<dead@forty2004.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Well, if it's not very difficult then just tell me. It can't be more than
>three lines of code. I have no books, no money, no resources. What is the
>solution? Or it so simple that it's actually beneath you?[/color]

Go to the newsgroup below and people will help you. It should be in
your group list.

microsoft.public.vc.language

Good Luck.

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

"Divvy Ballacks" <dead@forty2004.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1144638610.26854.0@dyke.uk.clara.net[color=blue]
> Well, if it's not very difficult then just tell me. It can't be more
> than three lines of code. I have no books, no money, no resources.
> What is the solution? Or it so simple that it's actually beneath you?
> Let me help:
> Is it (a), (b) or (c) or (d)
>
> (a)
> Bitmap ^myBitmap = gcnew Bitmap(71, 96, PixelFormat::Format24bppRgb)
> Image->FromFile("44.bmp");
>
> Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(myBitmap);
>
>
>
> (b)
>
> Image ^mypiccie = gcnew
>
> Image("12.jpg");
>
> Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(mypiccie);
>
> (c)
>
> System::Graphics::Watuzi
> ^ ->(0XXFFF:__IF__BETHE_MIDDLE_WORDIN___XXAAFFCC___LI FE);
>
> ^^::->Draw().... <-) [BITM]___#define
> SHISHI_KDCREQ_DEFAULT_REQ_BODY_SNAME_NAME_TYPE_LEN 0__
> Nghrrew||GrrrrrrrrgUggggggggh
>
> Yeah_Bitmaps::
>
>
>
> (d)
>
> None of the above.
>
>
>
> You see, the thing is, all I have is the documentation provided with
> VC++EE2005 and it's not very helpful and none of their sample
> projects from www.microsoft.com will compile (keep getting user32.dll
> missing, cannot find windows.h or whatever) because I only have the
> core SDK installed.[/color]


I am not sure if you are aware of this but Microsoft has created a new
language called C++/CLI for use with .Net (.Net is something like the Java
Virtual Machine). You are apparently attempting to program in that new
language. That new language is not the C++ language that is the topic of
this newsgroup.

You have two alternatives:

1. Continue on your current path, but ask about it in

microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc

2. Download the Platform SDK, which will enable you to do GUI programming
using C++ (this will get rid of your "cannot find windows.h" etc. errors).
In that case, some of your questions will be topical for this newsgroup, but
any GUI-related stuff belongs on, e.g.,

microsoft.public.vc.language
or
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.gdi
or
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui


--
John Carson

re: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

Sk'dokey. Message recieved unt understood.

"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:443a2101$0$10145$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au...[color=blue]
> "Divvy Ballacks" <dead@forty2004.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1144638610.26854.0@dyke.uk.clara.net[color=green]
>> Well, if it's not very difficult then just tell me. It can't be more
>> than three lines of code. I have no books, no money, no resources.
>> What is the solution? Or it so simple that it's actually beneath you?
>> Let me help:
>> Is it (a), (b) or (c) or (d)
>>
>> (a)
>> Bitmap ^myBitmap = gcnew Bitmap(71, 96, PixelFormat::Format24bppRgb)
>> Image->FromFile("44.bmp");
>>
>> Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(myBitmap);
>>
>>
>>
>> (b)
>>
>> Image ^mypiccie = gcnew
>>
>> Image("12.jpg");
>>
>> Graphics ^ g = Graphics::FromImage(mypiccie);
>>
>> (c)
>>
>> System::Graphics::Watuzi
>> ^ ->(0XXFFF:__IF__BETHE_MIDDLE_WORDIN___XXAAFFCC___LI FE);
>>
>> ^^::->Draw().... <-) [BITM]___#define
>> SHISHI_KDCREQ_DEFAULT_REQ_BODY_SNAME_NAME_TYPE_LEN 0__
>> Nghrrew||GrrrrrrrrgUggggggggh
>>
>> Yeah_Bitmaps::
>>
>>
>>
>> (d)
>>
>> None of the above.
>>
>>
>>
>> You see, the thing is, all I have is the documentation provided with
>> VC++EE2005 and it's not very helpful and none of their sample
>> projects from www.microsoft.com will compile (keep getting user32.dll
>> missing, cannot find windows.h or whatever) because I only have the
>> core SDK installed.[/color]
>
>
> I am not sure if you are aware of this but Microsoft has created a new
> language called C++/CLI for use with .Net (.Net is something like the Java
> Virtual Machine). You are apparently attempting to program in that new
> language. That new language is not the C++ language that is the topic of
> this newsgroup.
>
> You have two alternatives:
>
> 1. Continue on your current path, but ask about it in
>
> microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc
>
> 2. Download the Platform SDK, which will enable you to do GUI programming
> using C++ (this will get rid of your "cannot find windows.h" etc. errors).
> In that case, some of your questions will be topical for this newsgroup,
> but any GUI-related stuff belongs on, e.g.,
>
> microsoft.public.vc.language
> or
> microsoft.public.win32.programmer.gdi
> or
> microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui
>
>
> --
> John Carson
>[/color]