Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT] wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteWell, different things happen when I set ClientSize as opposed to
setting Size but I still do not get the size I want.


If I have a Usercontrol which knowns its size at construction or even on
the first Layout event (by setting ClientSize), IE will honour that size.

BTW: that first Layout  event happens before the Load event!

But, when the UserControl has child controls, IE disregards the
ClientSize I set and follows up with a call to
IOleInPlaceObject.SetObjectRects and resizes the control back to the
original height and width set in the OBJECT tag. Damn.

The interaction between the OLE calls and the .NET load/layout events is
not simple, as many of my child controls still haven't had Load events
fired by the time IE does an activation

To recap the order of things now:

1. ctor
2. properties set from PARAM tags
3. Layout event (from IOleObject.SetExtent)
4. Load event (here I create my first child - other descendants created
in ctor and/or Load events of descendants as many are dynamically
determined from settings files).
5. Layout event (from IOleObject.DoVerb - activation) - descendants
partly constructed
6. Layout event (from IOleInPlaceObject.SetObjectRects) - descendants
fully constructed but IE resetting Bounds back to OBJECT width/height

I have tried accessing the IOleInPlaceSite of the client site and
calling OnPosRectChange but this has no effect on Internet Explorer

I am still working on a postable simple UserControl to exhibit my problems.

Peter

Hi Peter,

We look forward to your repro UserControl sample. At the same time, we will
also perform research to dig into it.

Thanks very much.

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OK here is the example code. There are quite a few things to be done to
make the UserControl load properly within IE. I am hoping you have
already done most of these things and that you will just copy my example
code into your embedded object.

<OBJECT id="ExampleView1"
classid="CLSID:12144051-306A-44f0-AD62-AC52523EF9F6" VIEWASTEXT
width="100" height="100">
Did not load Example object
</OBJECT>
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using namespace System;
using namespace System::Drawing;
using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
using namespace System::ComponentModel;
using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;

namespace Eg
{
[ComVisible(true), Guid(S"12144051-306A-44f0-AD62-AC52523EF9F6")]
public __sealed __gc class Example:
    public UserControl
    {
    public: Example(void)
       {
       System::Diagnostics::Debugger::Break();
       InitializeComponent();
       }

    public: [Browsable(false), ReadOnly(true)]
       __property System::Drawing::Size get_MinimumSize(void)
          {
          int size = (mChild ? (mChildLoaded ? 300 : 200) : 0);
          return System::Drawing::Size(size, size);
          }

    private: Void mChild_Load(Object* sender, EventArgs* e)
       { mChildLoaded = true; }
    private: Control* mChild;
    private: bool mChildLoaded;

    // Designer-controlled members
    private:
       System::ComponentModel::Container* components;
       void InitializeComponent(void)
    {
    //
    // Example
    //
    this->BackColor = System::Drawing::Color::Yellow;
    this->Name = S"Example";
    this->Load += new System::EventHandler(this, Example_Load);
    this->Layout += new System::Windows::Forms::LayoutEventHandler(this,
Example_Layout);

    }

    private: System::Void Example_Load(System::Object* sender,
System::EventArgs* e)
       {
       if (DesignMode) return;

       UserControl* child = new UserControl();
       mChild = child;
       child->Anchor = (AnchorStyles)(AnchorStyles::Top
       child->BackColor = Color::Green;
       child->Location = Point(0, 0);
       child->Size = System::Drawing::Size(ClientRectangle.Width,
ClientRectangle.Height);
       child->Load += new EventHandler(this, mChild_Load);
       Controls->Add(child);
       }
    private: System::Void Example_Layout(System::Object* sender,
System::Windows::Forms::LayoutEventArgs* e)
       {
       if (DesignMode) return;

       System::Drawing::Size size = Size;
       System::Drawing::Size minSize = MinimumSize;
       size.Width = Math::Max(size.Width, minSize.Width);
       size.Height = Math::Max(size.Height, minSize.Height);

       if (size != ClientSize)
          ClientSize = size;
       }
    };
}
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for the update. We will look into it and reply here with our finding
as soon as possible.

Have a good day.

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Hi Peter,

Two scenarios I am seeing here:
1. The flickering of the control when it loads(the control is being resized
base on the code inside of your app, then IE redraws it again base on the
width and height specified in the Object tag)
2.  The size of the control displayed in IE is NOT the size you specified
inside the control BUT the Object tag.

The behavior is expected, if you need the size to be different than what's
on the Object tag, you can expose a method inside of your control to do
resizing and calling it from script after the control is loaded.  This
gives web developers using your control the options if they want your
control to resize automatically or they like to display the size they want.

thanks a lot!
Amy

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Yes, but only if it has the child control within it! Take the child
control out and IE will allow the control to change it's ClientSize.

Hmmm. My problem is that I have been directed to create a control that
does not require client-side scripting to initialise. I had already
offered this solution to my supervisor but it has been rejected as "not
self-initialising". It is possible that my control will support
scripting in future, but that will be a business decision out of my control.

Also you say "if they want your control to resize automatically" but I
cannot get this to happen at all due to the timing of calls as already
described.

Additionally, I would like my control to be able to completely size
itself in certain cases, ie leave the width and height unspecified in
the OBJECT tag and have the control indicate the size it wants to be.
But what happens here is that the default size of the control (150, 150
if I dont specify otherwise) is the size used by IE.

So my initial question still stands. Is there an interface or mechanism
I can use to change the control size once it is initialised and IE has
performed it's page layout -- other than client side scripts?

Thanks you your effort and analysis to date.

Hi Peter,

Based on Amy's reply, the control needs to expose a function to control its
size. I will contact him again on your scenario to see whether we can find
any workaround for this issue.

Thanks very much.

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Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT] wrote:
Thanks, and if I can just emphasize three things.

1. If I do not specify a size in the OBJECT tag, IE will still end up
setting the control size to be the size it was after it's constructor
was called (basically the .NET default size of 150x150).

2. If a control has no child controls, IE will accept my changes to the
control's size (via setting ClientSize), but if a control has child
controls - which my control must - IE reverts the size back to the
original size.

3. The OLE relationship between IE and .NET controls does not seem to be
designed to allow the control to dynamically initialise itself before IE
sets the container size, since IE asks for the control size before
setting the control properties (from the OBJECT PARAMETER tags), and
before .NET calls the control's (and its childrens') Load events.

These may not be bugs but they sure affect me as if they are.

Thanks again for the effort and analysis. A decision has been made here
that the web page designers will be informed that they must verify the
size specified in the OBJECT tag is suitable. Not so onerous, I suppose.

Cheers,

Hi, again,

I have another question which someone may be able to answer.

My control has child controls which are standard controls (scroll bars,
buttons, etc). Now, because my control is embedded in Internet Explorer,
these child controls are not drawn using the XP themed appearance; they
are drawn using the older Classic.

How can I get the XP themed appearance for these child controls?

I can't use an application manifest because the application is IE.
InitCommonControlsEx returns false.
The buttons etc have FlatStyle set to System. The scroll bars do not
have a FlatStyle property.

I can't think of, or find, any other mechanism to achieve this.

Peter

Hi Peter,

Could you please open a new thread for the new question? Currently we are
involving support team on it and it is better for us to focus on one
question first. Opening the new question in a new thread could help you get
quicker response.

Thanks very much.

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Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT] wrote:
Sure, sorry. Should have realised.

The new thread is "Forcing XP Themed scroll bars within Internet
Explorer-hosted UserControl"

Hi Peter,

It seems that the problem has been resolved by Amy's reply in this thread.
Thanks very much.

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Hi Peter,

To use Windows XP theme, we need to follow this articles. 
HOWTO: Use Windows XP Visual Styles with .NET Windows Forms
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303636&Product=VBB

If we only set flatstyle=system, the user control hosted in Internet
Explorer does
not pick up theming since iexplore.exe does not have a comctl 6 manifest.
You could
write the code to manage the activation context yourself in the user
control, but
for this to work, THE CONTROL WOULD REQUIRE UNMANAGED CODE PERMISSION,
since you
will have to p/invoke the activation context API. I have attached some
sample code that could be used to do this, including a ThemingScope class
which wraps the
activation context API. 

There is a problem when set flatstyle=system, if first click the button,
the onclick event does not fire. It works fine after that.  To workaround,
we can use mouseUp event instead of onclick. This should pretty much have
the same effect while it does not exhibit the problem.

thank you!
Amy

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Amy Luu[MSFT] wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteOK, lets narrow this down. Specifically, what matters to me most at the
moment are scroll bars - which do not have flatstyle.

Will the theming activation context code work to make scroll bars have
XP theming?

I have read as much as I can digest from msdn and MSKB regarding XP
theming, UXTheme, and related topics, but now you have pointed this API
out, I will research that too.

Thanks,

Peter Bromley wrote:
Great - I have tested the activation context code out and it works a treat.

Thanks ever so much,

Peter

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