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Simple dialog using CSMLStatic Environment: VC6 SP5, Win9x, WinNT, Win2000, WinXP Introduction Recently, I needed an easy way to provide information on dialogs and popup information boxes to users. While a static text control could be used, I wanted to present this information in a formatted manner. I wanted to include text justification, different fonts, […]

Environment: VC6, Win NT4, Win 2000 Hi EveryBody, This time I’m providing a solution to the very basic concept of Inter Thread Communication. In the Apartment threading model of COM, if we have to communicate between two apartments of threads, then we need marshalling of the first thread object to the second thread. If we […]

This article was contributed by Alexandre Komyak. Tested on: VC++ 4/6 NT2000 My current project made me think on the following point: It would be useful to separate into a dll the code responsible for running MFC’s View/Doc architecture, notably frame, its child area with controls, dialogs etc. This would help different applications to share […]

In the “Matrix” the character played by Lawrence Fishburne, alluding to the rabbit hole in Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”, asks Neo if he ever wondered how deep the rabbit hole goes. Neither the world in the “Matrix” is what it seems, nor is Lewis Carroll what he seems. Carroll was really Charles Dodgson, a Cambridge […]

Environment : Microsoft Windows This article was contributed byVishal KHAPRE Note: This article assumes that reader has basic knowledge of Windows Registry and understands its criticality. I have tested it on Windows 9X and NT not sure about Windows 2000 and XP. If somebody tests success please let me also know. Warning: As I mentioned […]

Environment: WinCE 3.0 \ Pocket PC 2002 : MVCE 3.0 PPC 2002 SDK: MCF Display images using imgdecmp.dll and modifed VOImage wrapper class. ( I took the liberty of making CVOImage::g_iScale public -> I should keep this private and create set\get (limited time).) This shows how to use Pocket PCs IMGDECMP.dll image processor through the […]

Environment: Win32, C++, MSVC 6.0 I needed to develop a program which requires a DLL that is usually found in the Windows system directory. Sometimes this DLL is not installed at all. To make things worse, the utility that needs the call the DLL is not allowed to leave any footprint when removed, so installing […]

SoftechSoftware homepage SoftechSoftware Email Environment: VC++ 6.0, XP, Win2k, NT 4.0, Win9x/ME Abstract CreateGrayscaleIcon is a Win32 function that creates a grayscale icon starting from a given icon. The resulting icon will have the same size of the original one. This function is written using only Win32 APIs to make possible to be used either […]

Environment: VC++ 6 In one of my last projects I had to use several wizard dialogs, meaning that I had CPropertyPage objects within a CPropertySheet and set the style to wizard mode before calling DoModal, e.g. dlg.SetWizardMode(); if ( dlg.DoModal() == ID_WIZFINISH ) ; //do something appropriate It felt quite painful to override every page’s […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, XP Introduction Drop Bar is a Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer toolbar that allows the drag and drop of files onto its buttons. User defined actions can then be performed with the files being dropped. A button’s actions can be programmed in your preferred […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0, NT 4.0,Win2000, Win95/98 Introduction Imagine the advantages of being able to dynamically access a database from the client-side. As a few possibilities, you could dynamically query a database from client-side, dynamically populate a drop-down select list, or dynamically update certain fields of a table. In fact, you can do this, with the […]

Enabling or Disabling controls in more effective and efficient way I was doing a project in which there were many controls on a dialog box. This dialog box could display for different user interactions. At different interactions some controls on the dialog box become enable and some become disable. To do the enabling and disabling, […]