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Introduction The CPrintListCtrl class is a standalone class which can be used to easy print a list control content (and even includes a “print preview” feature). This class is very easy to use and implement a lot of feature (like print column separator, line separator, head, column truncation, …). Using the CPrintListCtrl Class Here’s an […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0. SP5, Win2k SP2, MS Platform SDK April 2001 Table of contents Genetic Algorithm Theory GA and TSP Base implementation, Template class GA and GA Selection classes Genome of Travel TSP Application GA thread UI interface Environment Reference Disclaimer I am not a genetic algorighm (GA) guru and I do not have any […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, W2K SP2 In the process of creating my own shell for Windows I found that having all of the individual elements snap to the edge of the screen very useful. To make this process much easier I put together a small class that provides drop in window snapping. It uses a MFC […]

Dynamic Com This article was contributed by Anthony Roach Environment: Developed and tested under win 2000 and win 9x There is a standard way of working with Com components where you develop a component and then you run your install program that calls Register Type Library for you. This all works nicely because the latest […]

Environment: Visual Studio Description: Computers used to work primarily in text mode on screens of 25 rows of 80 columns. In those days it was common for text editors to allow you to exclude groups of lines so that you instead only saw a single special line representing the fact that lines were being hidden […]

Click here for larger image Environment: VC6 For a CFormView application, when the form size is changed, the margins around the controls in the form may appear to be unbalanced. When the form application is used on very different monitor resolutions, the same problem also appear. To make the controls automatically centralize while the form […]

Environment: VC5 SP3 Overview This article presents a technique of using one operation to set or retrieve all CDialog DDX data members. Unfortunately, this technique does this at the expense of limiting MFC Class Wizard’s ability to maintain the dialog’s DDX data members. Background MFC Dialog Data Exchange (DDX) makes it easier to exchange data […]

Environment: Win32 In many cases it is necessary to store data of unpredictable size in a memory buffer. I have seen a large number of cases where the programmer has thought “that buffer size is ten times bigger than we will ever need” and, of course, the application crashes in many user environments because the […]

Environment: VC6 Win2K/NT/98 This out-of-process server can be called remotely by VC and VBScript clients through network. This 200-line full-featured DCOM project was built with pure Win32 API from scratch. The only function in this server is to double an integer. For those who are not familiar with DCOM, in this sample, the client will […]

Environment: VC6 Introduction This sample uses OpenGl to create a 3-D Scattergraph that the user can view from any angle by rotating with the mouse. The data can be shown with either orthographic or perspective projection. The data, and optionally the color of each point, are loaded from a text file. The application can be […]

Environment: [VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, W2k, Win 9x] I have found that the Microsft GDI+ can do many cool things for you. Previously you had to find code or write your own code to do the same things. One of these things is the ability to load or save the following types of images: BMP […]