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Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java Contents | Prev | Next Aristotle was probably the first to begin a careful study of the concept of type. He was known to speak of “the class of fishes and the class of birds.” The concept that all objects, while being unique, are also part of a set of […]

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Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 with MSDN Library installed Purpose: You probably discovered how complex MSDN Library is – there are thousands of articles nicely sorted in its Contents Tree. However, have you noticed how hard is it to find articles you used, every time you resume work on your project? If you had, I […]

CDirSelDialog is derived from CFileDialog. It is customized to show only directories, and it has the following additional features : You can optionally see the files in a directory, before you decide to choose one directory for a particular purpose. This feature was lacking in previous versions of directory selection dialogs, either a class was […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0/SP4, W2K, W9X Introduction Ever got frustrated with unpredictable behavior of standard Visual Studio "Windows" dialog box? EnhancedWindowList is an add-in that unobtrusively replaces standard "Windows" dialog and provides extended functionality. Its features include (see picture above): Windows list may be sorted by document name, path, type and status. Windows may be filtered […]

The TRACE macro defined using MFC and ATL can also be used in console or Win32 application, however with some small modifications. This example will post Messages to the tracer built-in with Visual Studio IDE, TraceEx Also includes source file and code line which can be used as shortcut when double clicked on. /* Trace.h […]

Environment: VC6 SP4 Overview In an application that sports TabControls with several rows of tabs, it can often be difficult for the user to distinguish which tab has focus. Therefore, this code will enable you to easily hilight the text of the active tab (see image above). Usage There are only two property page functions […]

This article was contributed by Christian Skovdal Andersen. About ObjectLookup This is the second version of ObjectLookup. The UI has been enhanced a bit with shortcut keys etc. Also the ProgID field now has focus per default. Objectlookup is a small utility that will give you the classname and executable based on a CLASID or […]

Environment: VC6, Win32 When we want to resize a bitmap and also the resulting bitmap to be of the highest possible quality, the Win32 AIP function StretchBlt() is not of much help. There are already articles about this task in the CodeGuru sections, but the proposed algorithms take considerable amount of memory when used on […]

Whenever I start the average Windows application, it shows up at some arbitrary location on my screen. In many cases, my window positions have been very carefully set. I don’t want to reset them every time. So I decided it would be a Good Idea if every program I wrote from now on kept track […]