Is Custom Dialog same as adding custom contol to a dialog?

[ameybarve]

Hi All,
Thanks in Advance.

I want to develop a custom dialog control. In this discussion board i have seen many posts that have mentioned about adding custom controls to dialog. Is this same as custom dialog itself?

If not how can i customize a dialog? Any code will be helpful.
Sample application for custom dialog will be appreciated.

[Tatavarthi]

If you want to keep any lable to your Dialog
you need to mention it in resource file as

RESOURCE DIALOG r_simpledlg_player_name_dialog

{

flags = EEikDialogFlagNoDrag | EEikDialogFlagCbaButtons | EEikDialogFlagWait;

buttons = R_AVKON_SOFTKEYS_OK_CANCEL;



items =

{

DLG_LINE

{

id = EConfirmationNoteDlgCIdPlayerName;

type = EEikCtLabel;

control = LABEL// This attribute is u want to add is it??

{

};

},
};
}

Hope this will helps you.Let me know if this is not what exactly you want..

Regards,
Pavan

[ameybarve]

Hi Tatavarthi,
Thanks for your prompt reply.

What i want is to create a custom dialog control.
I have derived my class from CEikDialog and implemented its methods.

What i want is to insert controls like you mentioned (label)dynamically and not using resource file to this custom dialog.

Any sample application for custom dialog will be appreciated.

[sriky27]

Yup there is follow this link

[ameybarve]

Hi sriky27,
Thanks for your reply.

In CreateCustomControlL() method i have Created a container which has label control.
Now the link that you have given shows static definition in resource file, i want to change the controls in custom dialog dynamically and not defined in resource file.
Can i provide it dynamically?

[sriky27]

Hi,

Check in this link my last post I have attached .h and .cpp how to do it dynamically http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ghlight=dialog

[ameybarve]

Hi sriky27,

Thanks again for sharing your code.

I have created onject of CModalDialog in my AppUi's HandleCommandL() using NewL() method.
But when i build my code only controls of my container gets displayed. No Editors are displayed.
Do i need to call any other method of CModalDialog?

[sriky27]

You need to call ExecuteLD

this is the resource you could use

// ---------------------------------------------------------
//
// r_modal_dialog
// Menu for Modal Dialog View
//
// ---------------------------------------------------------
//
RESOURCE DIALOG r_modal_dialog
{ flags=EEikDialogFlagWait |EEikDialogFlagFillAppClientRect
|EEikDialogFlagNoTitleBar|EEikDialogFlagNoDrag|EEikDialogFlagCbaButtons;
buttons = R_AVKON_SOFTKEYS_OK_EMPTY;
}


iModelDialog->ExecuteLD(R_MODAL_DIALoG);

[ameybarve]

Hi sriky27,
Thanks again.

I have a question about the code shared by you?
When will the Draw() method get called? because you have set the Brush color as red but it never gets displayed.

I tried displaying a text on to dialog using the method you told (dynamic display without using rss structure) and it is being displayed, but now i don't want label to display on dialog, i directly want to use gc.DrawText() method to display text on to dialog, so i have written the code for its display in Draw() method but no text is being displayed on to dialog.

[sriky27]

I guess the Edwin are overlapping the text you are drawing try changing the rectangle of edwin so that you have space at the top of the dialog.

[ameybarve]

Hi sriky27,

I have commented entire code for edwin and then trying to display my text, as i told using Label it is being diaplayed but not using gc.DrawText().
And i am taking input from user as a text & calling DrawNow() method so that control goes to Draw(), but Draw() does not have any effect.

[sriky27]

You are taking user input in a Dialog and you want to update the contents of the Dialog. could you show us the way you are doing it a snapshot of code.

[ameybarve]

Hi sriky27,

User input is some hard coded string put in _LIT();
and i want to display it on dialog without using label.

[yogpan]

Hi,
Can you be more specific where exactly you want to display it on the dialog because you can set it as dialog header or some other place using APIs.

[sriky27]

hi,

Did you set the rectangle on your label in the PostLayoutDynInitL or any where else I mean sth like iLabel->SetRect( Rect() );