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Introduction This article explains how to customize the standard Find/Replace Dialog in RichEdit view. The logic is same for Edit view or any other generic views with slight changes. Customizing the Find/Replace Dialog involves modifying windows common Find/Replace dialog template which allows you to add any new controls or remove the existing one. Please note, […]

Click here for larger image The CSpinEdit is an alternative control for standard CSpinButtonCtrl, but has new features:  Supports spinning data with mouse wheel Automatically increases data when pressing the upper button, but decreases if pressing the lower button The spinned data type can be integer , float or double You can specify the decimal […]

This article contains a simple CListCtrl wrapper called CFileDropListCtrl which was made to wrap a CListCtrl so it can display ToolTip text for each item in the control regardless of the style of the view : REPORT, LIST, ICON Previous articles only listed tooltip text for the Report view. It was adapted from a previous […]

In our version of RunProcessAndWait, we don’t wait more that 300s (5mn) if the process is still working or stucked, the function exits with a FALSE return value. RunAndForgetProcess(..) just run a create the command line process and exit. Note: Using DDE in the child process of ‘RunProcessAndWait’ may give some deadlock. (Thank for the […]

All buttons begin their incarnation as a member of class Cbutton, which is derived from the class CWnd. Although this class includes Radiobuttons and Checkboxes, This perticuler Discussion will focus only on the command buttons. All dialog box control , including command buttons, have properties and styles. Button styles are recognized by their BS_Prefix. Some […]

Introduction This article is for those enthusiastic VC++ developers who want to build their own ActiveX controls but don’t know where to start with. This article will take you to build your first ActiveX control. This article will show you the step by step method to build a control which draws different waveforms (Sin/Cos).I assume […]

Click here for larger image Introduction This small control will help you if you want to draw wave file in your applications. This control can open ,play and draw any wave file saved in wave format but saved without any compression ( PCM Format ). Usage Note that this is not an ActiveX control. It […]

Editor’s Note: The ComboBox used in this article is illustrated in Alan’s Hot Combo Box Control article. I had an application where I wanted to allow the user to change fonts but I was not happy with the default CFontDialog provided by the MFC framework. For one it just looks like any old application and […]

Environment: Win 9x/NT/2000 and Visual C++ 6 While not being very fancy, this application (called ControlPanel) is a small demonstration of how the real Windows Control Panel functions. When the Control Panel is launched, it looks for .cpl files in the Windows system folder. The .cpl files (called applets) are simple DLLs that export the […]

There has been always a problem connecting to web browsers, Either you need to write Browser Helper Object or something which browser needs to instantiate. But I found all the other methods had one or other way bug in it. Decided to find simple and bug free way, And came across this ShellWindows interface, which […]

This is a simple technique to determine the URL of the web page in which the ActiveX control is hosted. Introduction I had to develop ActiveX controls for web based applications. Some of these controls were manipulating the local resources. To disable malicious use of these control by others through scripting, I had to implement […]

Click here for larger image Purpose One of the hard things about learning the document/view architecture is that it is full of marvelous functions, but nobody tells you which function gets called when. You are supposed to override functions when you want to add functionality, but it is not clear which function is the right […]