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SoftechSoftware homepage SoftechSoftware Email Environment: VC++ 6.0, XP, Win2k, NT 4.0, Win9x/ME Abstract CXPStyleButtonST is a scalable CButtonST-derived control. If running under Windows XP the application buttons will be skinned using the current selected theme (if any), while if running under Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 the buttons will have the standard, well known CButtonST flat style. In […]

Environment: VC6 Introduction There are a number of articles on the Internet as well as on CodeGuru offering advice on streaming the constituent text out of rich edit components. Although some provided source code, they still seemed a little ambiguous, and in certain cases did not provide fully what I wanted. Reading rich text from […]

This is an easy and flexible way to use bitmaps as buttons in your application, however it has its limitations. It is based on CStatic class and its SetBitmap member function. I did it this way: Step: Define button states (for instance: default, highlighted, pressed) and draw the bitmap for each state. Step: Derive a […]

  Environment: VC6, SP4 This is mostly taken from the perlembed document, but with slight modifications that should clarify embedding a perl interpreter in a VC++ app. It is assumed that you have perl installed on your machine. You may want to get the source code too. The screenshot above is what the included GUI […]

Environment: VC6 Have you ever tried place a customized icon in a messagebox? Maybe not. This class helps you to do so. Just add the files to your existing project and add the Msgbox.h as a header to view.cpp file. That’s it, you are ready to display an icon of your choice in the MessageBox […]

Hi, finally I had the occasion to contribute in CodeGuru site. Well, this is my humble solution to convert an icon from 32×32 format to 16×16. The procedure is very simple, I get the two bitmaps of the icon (the image bitmap and the mask bitmap) and I resize separately each bitmap from 32×32 to […]

Environment: VC6 Hi, I was 14 years old when I wrote this control (almost when it came up to IE5.5) when I saw it for first time I said to myself: “I will make my own” because: I like it I haven’t been able to find it. That is the story of the control. How […]

Environment: VC6, Windows 2000 It took me some time to figure out how to enable menu in an ATL/MFC ActiveX control and I think the result is simple but instructive. You simply have to change the style of the window of the AX control. ActiveX is the 3rd generation of COM (Basic COM and Automation […]

Environment: Visual C++ This is a simple function I wrote in order to deal with creating complete (multi-level) paths. The function works recursively, and uses std::wstring, but can actaully work on any basic_string -based string. It can deal with trailing slashes (eg. “c:temp” vs. “c:temp”), as well as network locations (eg. “\machineshared”). You might notice […]

Click here for larger image Picture 1 – Peek at Document Object Model from Browser Helper Object Environment: NET Framework Beta 2 Introduction This article describes the port of Browser Helper (BHO) and IE Extension objects, originally implemented in C++/ATL/WTL, to .NET class library implemented in C#. Some instructive problems and advantages of such implementation […]

Environment: VC 6, NT4 This is an application used to swap the IP address. For connecting to a computer in different domain the user has to change the IP address through the Network properties, for this the user has to follow 3 to 4 steps. In this application, the IP address of your computer will […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP5, Visual C++ 6 SP3 Introduction Let’s think about grayscale palette like about gradient from black color to white. “Equal” colored palette can be represented as two gradients stacked side by side: gradient from black to “desired” color and gradient from “desired” color to white. Desired color usually placed in the middle […]