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SoftechSoftware homepage SoftechSoftware Email Environment: VC++ 6.0, XP, Win2k, NT 4.0, Win9x/ME Abstract CListBoxST is a CListBox derived class that tries to reproduce the look and feel of the same control that appears under Windows XP when a CD without autorun.inf is inserted into the CD-Rom drive. Each list box item can be enabled or […]

Environment:  : VC++ 6.0, Service Pack 5 Library Class Hierarchy Overview In my last article, I showed how to extend an OLE DB consumer template class and make it much easier to use in applications. I had also explained how you can utilize the power of C++ exception-handling feature to make your work easier, especially in error handling. […]

Environment: Windows 2000 SP2, VC6 SP5 but will work on all versions General In the last few month I coded a lot of global hook and out-of-process COM server related stuff. Global hooks are hard to debug because they’re normally called in the context of the debugger process too. You can’t use message boxes, etc. […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, (Win32), Win95, Win98, Win2k, WinXP. Introduction Sorry for my bad english in advance. It is not my native language. The CMaleLogger class is the child of the big project called ‘Radionizer’ that brings a complete automation to radio stations and it consists of several programs. The name of the main […]

Environment: MSVC 6.0 The basic problem of this code was to decrease a color depth of great bitmaps (like 8000 x 8000 pixels) to – for example – 4 bits per pixel and solving nearly (! see below) the original color palette. The first attempt was to use the method as shown in DDBtoDIB. But […]

Environment: .NET, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT4 SP6a Microsoft .NET event handling, in common with typical object-oriented frameworks, is implemented using the well-known Observer design pattern. (See the book, Design Patterns, by Gamma et al., Addison-Wesley, 1995, pp 325-330). This article describes how to enhance .NET event handling with the […]

–> Environment: not specified An alternative way to the API MakeSureDirectoryPathExists function. Introduction Sure, you can use the API version of MakeSureDirectoryPathExists function to satisfy your needs, but there must be an alternative way. What do you need to do if you want to use the API MakeSureDirectoryPathExists function? First, you have to include ‘imagehlp.h’ […]

Environment: VC6 SP5,Win98 & Win2k Do you want your program to read the users’ Favorites/Bookmarks? Here is a simple and easy way to add a “Read my Favorites” function to your program based on CMenu class. After using CodeGuru.com almost everyday to help me learn C++ while designing JoeSwammi MLB (www.joeswammi.com), this is my small […]

There are some special steps that you will need to be aware of when building custom controls. Custom controls are fun and rewarding to build, and you will save yourself some frustration by taking a few minutes to read this article. This article demonstrates the DefaultValueAttribute and introduces adding classes as properties to custom controls, […]

Environment: VC6 and NT4 How to change Windows NT Font’s size Sometimes you need to do something and you know it’s possible because Windows does it all the time. However, you want to do it within the code of your program. Searching the net and MSDN often gives Nada. That’s the time to document the […]

. Environment: VC6 Introduction I frequently find a need to have a control that needs to be represented differently at run-time depending on various circumstances. The control presented here can be switched at run-time between a number of controls including edit, combobox, static, and checkbox controls. Another advantage is that this control will contain both […]

Environment: [eg VC6 SP4, embeddedVC3, winCE 3.0/PocketPC2000/2002 Asteroids is an implementation of the classic game of the same name. The game was developed out of a curiosity to see just how difficult it was to develop a graphical application on a PocketPC system. As it turned out, I found an excellent, GPL licensed, graphics library […]