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Environment: VC6, Windows 95/98/NT Its name is CBitmapCtrl and it is a class representing a dialog control that loads bitmaps from files. The fancy thing (that I’ve not seen in other related postings) is that this control does not clip the bitmap if it’s bigger than the control’s window – it uses scrollbars for the […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6 In response to a programming requirement, I went to CodeGuru for help with a non-modal FileDialog. I read the postings, generated some ideas, and developed a class I call CNonModalFileDialog. In the simplest view, it is merely an instance of CFileDialog created in a CWinThread. Of course, nothing is ever as […]

I’m not sure how useful this will be. It’s towards the basic end of the programming scale but it solves the problem of showing a user how much time is left in a timer. This is useful if, for example, a user is able to set an x amount of minutes until a certain action […]

Here is a very simple example of how to implement a “One Instance” Application. If the application is yet running and the user tries to launch another instance, the running app is activated and line command parameter parsed to the runnin app. The following code is added to the CWinApp-derived class in the ‘InitInstance()’ function, […]

Environment: Win9x, Windows NT/2000, DirectX Installed Introduction DirectX isn’t the most friendly of API’s available, so here’s a simple class that you can use to utilise DirectX7 for multiple Joystick Control. Unfortunately it doesn’t include ForceFeedback support as I don’t have a compatible device, however if you want to add that support, the code is […]

Environment: Win9x, Windows NT/2000, DirectX Installed Introduction DirectInput is essential for responsive games, therefore to help ease the transition of DOS games programmers, you can use this class to read the keyboard direct trapping input before Windows starts performing it translation functions.  To use the class, define a global variable :- CDIKeyboard myKeyboard; You will […]

I was looking for Office 2000 style menu bar with intelligent menues, but my searches were no effect. So I’ve made a series of classes that emulate a style similar to Office 2000. These classes are based on work made by MB (mb2@geocities.co.jp) and Brent Corkum. To use Office 2000 menu bar in your applications, […]

This article was contributed by : Partha Sarathi Dhar Objective For long I’ve benefited from the numerous articles and codes at CodeGuru so I thought, that this is the right time I contribute something to CodeGuru. This is a small application … nothing special about it. But it took me quite sometime to find out […]

Ive already borrowed so much information from CodeGuru that Ive started getting frustrated that I haven’t contributed anything myself to the site. Therefore, I respectfully offer this articles to my fellow programmers. Some time ago, I had to write an NT 4.0 device driver. Since I was already used to the comfort of Visual Studio […]

I needed a listbox showing colors and text strings for a legend. When I didn’t find any, I decided to create my own, based on Color Picker Combo Box (3) by James R. Twine. It has the same functionality, except it is based on a CListbox instead of a CCombobox. To use it: Define a […]

Purpose SCSI Info DLL helps to identify SCSI parmeters of local SCSI drives by their drive letters and determine drive letter by SCSI parameters on Windows NT machines. Usage SCSIInfo.DLL exports following functions: BOOL ScanDrives(void)     – scans local drives and stores internally their SCSI parameters     return: ERROR_SUCCESS if succeeded, OS error code if failed […]

Environment: Any environment that can run the .NET development tools Antechinus, the very first professional C# editor supports the new Microsoft’s C# (C Sharp) programming language color-coded syntax and allows you to compile and run applications from the integrated environment. This editor is already a favorite of many developers (such as myself) that have been […]