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. The toolbar class discussed in this article works with the standard MFC CToolBar. NOTE: You must also have new the COMCTL32.DLL (version 4.7 or later). This is installed with Internet Explorer 3 and will come standard with the new Windows 98. So if you are using VC++ 5 then you probably already have this […]

This code creates a progress bar anywhere in the status window and the control is created only once. 1. From the View menu, choose Resource Symbols. Press the New button and assign the symbol a name. (In this example well be using ID_INDICATOR_PROGRESS_PANE) Its probably best if you let the computer assign a value for […]

The CStaticFilespec control is a lightweight class suitable for displaying long filespecs that may need to be truncated or compressed, in order to fit the size of the display. Here’s and example of what the control looks like when used in a dialog box. By default, CStaticFilespec supports 2 drawing styles: DT_END_ELLIPSIS and DT_PATH_ELLIPSIS. The […]

If you do not want to allow any editing in the control you can call the function SetReadOnly(). This will disable all editing in the control. But that’s not what this topic is about. The rich edit control also allows setting any text in the control to read only, somewhat akin to setting the text […]

When the property sheet shows up, by default it has the Apply button visible and disabled. Often, we don’t need the Apply button at all. Removing the button is a one liner and here’s how. After you create the property sheet object just add the PSH_NOAPPLYNOW flag. propsheet.m_psh.dwFlags |= PSH_NOAPPLYNOW;

Environment: VC4, VC5, VC6, Win9x, WinNT This sample was contributed by Chris Maunder, and extended by Alexander Bischofberger. Download source files (13 Kb) or sample project (41 Kb). Latest updates here. (version 1.3) In an effort to have the latest and greatest wizz-bang features in my programs I unashamedly ripped of the colour picker from […]

CCustomMenu: This class is the owner drawn version of the CMenu. You will be able to Set the Text Color. Set the highlight color Set the Highlight Style. Set the selected and normal Icon for the Menu item. Set the Icon size. In order to use it, you need to create MENUDATA stuctrure and fill […]

The short answer is – you don’t. The long answer is that you derive from CListView instead and add the same functionality to the CListView derived class. The reason for this is that MFC is designed in such a way that only one C++ object can be associated with one window or control. When you […]

Recently, I completed a CDragEdit class. With this class, user can copy/move string between edit controls or other editors just by drag-and-drop. The drag_edit_src.zip is the source code of CDragEdit and the drag_edit_test.zip is the test program, including its source code also, of CDragEdit. Both of zip files have one README.TXT. In this file, I […]

Environment: VC6 Introduction The History Combo class CHistoryCombo is based on CComboBox, and includes support for keeping item history, including reading from and saving to the registry. It can also be used to display the contents of an existing CRecentFileList object. How to use it Using the CHistoryCombo class is very straightforward. Follow the steps […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, W2K SP1 – Does not work on Win95 with DirectX because of Transparent Bitmap drawing.     After having this base code for about a year and a half it has finally matured to the stage where I feel that it can be used in other people’s applications. The basis of the CCaptionButton class […]

I am not going to reinvent the wheel and everything I am going to talk about is documented here and there. The only reason I am putting all this in one place is because I spent a week to get all parts together. ActiveX introduced a new way to display the propery pages. Each page […]