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Do you ever want to save a web page into one single file, including pictures and text? You can use IE SaveAs command, but the drawback is obvious, the Save As dialog is always shown up for security reason. There is a complicated work around to avoid the Save As dialog (see Automated IE SaveAs […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP6,W98 SE, W2000 SP1 You know it takes lots of code lines when you use the API for storing data into an Ini-File. E.g. for just one double it would look like this: // store CString strTemp; strTemp.Format(“%g”,m_dDouble); WritePrivateProfileString(“MySection”, “MyDouble”, strTemp, “C:\\MyPath\\MyIni.ini”); // load char pBuffer[256]; GetPrivateProfileString(“MySection”, “MyDouble”, “1.23”, pBuffer, 256, […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 Windows 98 Introduction This article demonstrates the technique of dynamically creating multiple Views at run-time and opening Web pages on the Views created. The number of views created depends on the list of Web pages saved at the root of the Favourites in your Internet Explorer. Sometime […]

From Kate Gregory’s Codeguru column, “Using Visual C++ .NET“. –> When you create a Managed C++ application, you are writing managed code. But you’re not always working with managed data—objects that are created on the garbage-collected heap and whose lifetimes are managed by the runtime. You can work with managed or unmanaged data as you […]

Environment: VC6 Introduction When we evaluate an expression in VC6 Quick Watch Windows, we are allowed to run a function. In additional, we can give the function a parameter. As a result, if we need to display a very complex data structure, such as a Link, which is difficult to display all the data in […]

Environment: Windows 9x, TC or C’s MinGW port of GCC. Preface My previous article on Insertion Sort (you can find it at www.codeguru.com/algorithms/kmethod.html) faced a lot of real hot comments (especially by Peter). This forced me to write about more interesting and comprehensive sorting methods, the result of which is this one. Through this writing […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: ASP.NET, MFC/C++, ISAPI, ISAPI Extensions Introduction This article presents a way to retrieve the GET-POST data from a form in an ISAPI extension. Two helpful collections classes of parameters are also provided. Because a non-MFC ISAPI extension is more reliable regarding the speed and the simultaneous number of […]

Environment: VC++ 5.0-6.0, NT 4.0/2000/XP, Win 2000/ME Level: Intermediate In this article, I implemented a drag and drop operation for list control items. I implemented a list control that displays the graphics for a particular folder as thumbnails. The user can drag the thumbnails and drop them on the destination list control. The thumbnail actually […]

A Win32 API centering enhancement for message boxes. . Environment: 32-bit Windows Introduction Message boxes are normally placed in the center of the desktop window. It is often desirable to create messages boxes over the parent app window. This cannot be done by using the standard Win32 API call: INT MessageBox(HWND,LPTEXT,LPCAPTION,UITYPE); The code below centers […]

Environment: Any console-based C code. Introduction CMemLeak is a small tool for detecting memory leaks in C programs. It does not replace and is not as good as the commercially available tools. However, it is free and can be used in any environment. CMemLeak will not detect: Array bounds Reads Free Memory Reads Stack Violations […]

Environment: C#, .NetFramework, Windows9x, Windows2000, WindowsXP I am working on a desktop-sharing type application in C#. The first problem that I encountered was that there was not much in C# to capture the desktop image. After a bit of research, I came to know that I shall have to use the Win32 APIs to provide […]

Click here for a larger image. Environment: VC6 I’ve wanted to implement a variation on the constrained window alignment available in popular software titles like Winamp and CorelDRAW for some time and finally got the opportunity. Although the test application is MFC, the core functionality is contained in the non-MFC class CStickyDragManager. CStickyDragManager handles the […]