Centering a window on another window

[dedndave]

Steve,
for IE, there is a feature called "Compatibility View"
you may have it disabled   :P

i am using XP MCE2005, SP3 with IE8 - Compatibilty View enabled
your post looks the same in Firefox and IE

[jj2007]

Just checked with IE7 (<rant>I'll never understand why the bloody beast points me every single time I start it to runonce, although I always tell it what my homepage is</rant>), and I can confirm that IE does not show the tabs correctly. Looks awful indeed.

[SteveAsm]

for IE, there is a feature called "Compatibility View"
you may have it disabled   :P

i am using XP MCE2005, SP3 with IE8 - Compatibilty View enabled
your post looks the same in Firefox and IE

Dave,
I'm aware of "Compatibility View".
I'm running XP, SP3, IE8 w/Compatibility View enabled.
And this is what I see for many posts with code:

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    INVOKEGetWindowRect, winHandle, ADDR gpRect

    MOVEAX, gpRect.right
    SUBEAX, gpRect.left
    SUBEAX, winWidth
    MOVECX, EAX
    ANDECX, 1 SHL 31
    SHREAX, 1
    OREAX, ECX
    ADDEAX, gpRect.left
    MOVECX, EAX

where TABS are used in the code.

[NoCforMe]

Dunno why y'all are having problems with IE. I just tried my version (old: v5) and it displayed correctly.

Did Micro$oft break tab rendering in later versions of IE?

[dedndave]

ok - i was playing around - lol
you have to disable compatibility view for this site
IE - Tools menu - Compatibility View

i had it disabled for alll websites except those in my list
IE - Tools menu - Compatibility View Settings

[SteveAsm]

ok - i was playing around - lol
you have to disable compatibility view for this site
IE - Tools menu - Compatibility View

i had it disabled for alll websites except those in my list
IE - Tools menu - Compatibility View Settings

Okay, once I removed masm32 from my Compatibility View list, it displayed correctly.
Now, I can't remember why I had it on my list.   :eek

[SteveAsm]

Okay, once I removed masm32 from my Compatibility View list, it displayed correctly.
Now, I can't remember why I had it on my list.   :eek

Ohoh!
now I remember.
It has to due with SMF Forums.
SMF Forums, (and masm32 is one of them), has a glitch that pertains to IE-8.
Unless you use Compatibility View, when entering text in the textbox for submitting a post, the textbox becomes unstable.
I remember discussing this in emails with SMF support. It is a well known bug.
Their only solution is to turn Compatibility View ON.
Try it.
Using IE8, Compatibility View turned OFF, enter (or copy) a dozen or so lines of text and at the end of the page, start typing.
It will become unstable.

This raises another issue, tho'.
Now, as I have illustrated, with Compatibility View turned ON, TABS become a problem as text is run together without proper spacing.

[hfheatherfox07]

Hi there this seems to be a good Idea what am I doing wrong invoking the  SetWindowPos ?
... I commented out because It crashes on me  :(

[dedndave]

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SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_NOSIZE

you should OR constants together, not ADD

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SWP_NOMOVE or SWP_NOSIZE

but - that's not the problem

also, the x and y position parameters will be ignored if the SWP_NOMOVE flag is set   :P

but - that's not the problem

[hfheatherfox07]

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SWP_NOMOVE + SWP_NOSIZE

you should OR constants together, not ADD

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SWP_NOMOVE or SWP_NOSIZE

but - that's not the problem

also, the x and y position parameters will be ignored if the SWP_NOMOVE flag is set   :P

but - that's not the problem

so what is the problem?

[dedndave]

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    Call CenterWindow

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CenterWindow PROC winHandle:HWND, winWidth:DWORD, winHeight:DWORD
when CenterWindow returns, it POP's 3 dwords off the stack
lemme see - that'd be the stored EBP value, the return address for DlgProc, and the hWnd parm   :bg
no wonder it crashes
then - when you exit the DlgProc routine, it tries to jam the uMsg value into ESP and POP wParam into EBP   :lol
it then proceeds to execute code at the address of whatever lParam is pointing to - probably crashes right there

[hfheatherfox07]

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    Call CenterWindow

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CenterWindow PROC winHandle:HWND, winWidth:DWORD, winHeight:DWORD

LOL ...

I don't get it

[Gunner]

If you use call, you need to push the parameters then call,  or use invoke and you would see what the error is!

[dedndave]

well, first, you have to get the window width and height
i am guessing you want to center it on the desktop, so you can use GetSystemMetrics for those

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        INVOKE  CenterWindow,hWnd,width,height

[hfheatherfox07]

woops