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Environment: VC6, NT4 SP6, Win2000 Ever needed to let your customer extend the functionality of your application? Why not use the scripting technology also used by Internet Explorer! This article describes the use of the ActiveX scripting engine within your application. To hide implementation details, a singleton class (ScriptEngineFactory) has been implemented which can be […]

Add-on Screen shots: Click here for larger image Add-on find dialog: Environment: Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 To-do cached add-on was designed to simplify developer’s tasks, like debugging and code management. As a result of my work a Visual Studio Add-on component was created. It makes some things easier. Debugging Features Main feature of Debugging […]

Environment: VC6, Windows NT SP 4 or later, Win 98 SE or later Some applications being installed on a computer need a way to retrieve the unique information that globally identify the computer. I created a function to do this. My method is based on the MAC address of the network adapter as the computer […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, Win98-WinXP, STLPort 4.0/4.5.1 recommended (free) ‘cxtPackage’ is a library allowing custom lexical analyzers supporting the following features: includes a fast generic tokenizer uses a fast caching recursive-descent analyzer the ruleset for the analyzer permits assigning precedence priorities to expressions the parse tree is built according to the precedence prioritites a small IDE […]

Environment: all Class for presenting tree structures in C++. 1. Data objects: – The purpose of the Data class is to keep the actual data. It keeps the data until all actual references to it are dead. This is done with reference counting (COM like). I know somebody may find this worthless and useless, but […]

Environment: VC6 This is a class based on Bob Ryan’s CColorButton code of 1998/08/06. The main modifications were to make the default view of a button to be exactly the same as a normal non-owner drawn button. To this end, the default colors are set in the constructor by interrogating the current Windows settings through […]

Environment: Visual C++ This program is very useful when you want to send a message with an attachment if you use Outlook Express like your default program for sending or receiving messages. It is also useful in case of sending your documents from database, because it writes your attachment and puts it in a message. […]

Environment: VC6 Here is a little programme I wrote to calculate the date and time of equinoxes and solstices in a given year (not earlier than 4713 BC). Actually I am no astronomer: I have only collected information on calendars and astronomical calculations from various sources on the Internet and assembled what I needed. The […]

Occasionally Santa Claus gets a Christmas wish list that requires a public response. Sometimes writers ask for world peace, sometimes it’s “what’s the meaning of life?” but this year the question was “what’s the big deal about classes and components?” Rather than provide a stocking stuffer for one little boy or girl, Santa sent the […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6, NT4, Win2k, *nix? Introduction Here is a class heirarchy designed to simplify logging of messages on a Windows platform. I should qualify and say that porting these classes to *nix is trivial. It should be obvious that the CEventLogAppender would need to be scrapped or retasked. These classes […]

    What’s new in Version 3.0 As you can see  I’ve added the new Office XP drawing style for the menu’s. I just got a machine with Windows XP on it and I noticed that the menu’s in all our applications looked terrible. So I decided to do something about it and after 2 […]

I looked at Dave Merner’s article on direct SQL calls with ODBC and some subsequent correspondence regarding non MFC class usage. Some readers were interested in an STL solution and I have made the following changes to the presented code: The CPtrArray has been replaced by a standard STL vector. The Column classes have been […]