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Introduction In this article I want to introduce enhanced ProgressBar control. I collect some ideas from article on CodeGuru and CodeProject, add some my own ideas and develop this control. I try to develop it in most common, flexible and extensible way. You can also use any standard functionality of ProgressBar and MFC wrapper CProgressCtrl. […]

Environment: VC6 SP4, NT4 SP3, CodeWright Editor There used to be a sample of an MFC extension for CodeWright on the Premia Web Site. This one is similar but uses ATL/WTL instead. This DLL was initially created with the ATL Wizard (aren’t they all). The stdafx header pulls in a bunch of ATL and WTL […]

1. Description CSelfXResource presents binary resources contained in specified module and extracts them into local file 2. Purpose Assuming you need special version of the DLL for your program but do not want or cannot install this DLL before your application starts and cannot deinstall this DLL after your application ends. Or you need an […]

Environment: Windows CE 3.0 About PocketWine PocketWine is a small database for keeping track of the wines you have tried. I have written this utility for two reasons. When standing in the supermarket or at the wine dealer, it can be difficult to remember, if you have tried a certain wine before, and if so, […]

Environment: Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000 A DlgResizeHelper object helps you keeping a layout while resizing a dialog or – more generally – a window with child windows. For this class I was inspired by an article by John Keogh in DDJ 06/2000 (“Layout Management”) and a look at Code Guru revealed some solutions as well. […]

Ever wanted to change the "View/Hide Status Bar" menue option so that the application (main) window changes it’s height accordingly preserving the size of the visible client area? Here’s a little handler for the OnViewStatusBar message handler to perform this task. Versions for MFC or Non-MFC available. // // OnViewStatusBar handler // // increase or […]

Have you ever tried to find a usable graph and chart class for plotting groups of data? I have. And when trying to find some cheap or free classes for plotting graph data, I found very few. Tired of this predicament, I finally took the plunge and decided it was time to design them myself. […]

My first version of this article had some major problems on NT and W2K as has been pointed out. The following is an attempt to correct these errors using information that was either overlooked or not available 2 years ago. As a more recent MSDN Dr. GUI article has pointed out, there are big problems […]

This documents intends to give a beginner some knowledge that can be helpfull when designing a project to the Windows plataform. When I start a new project I try to let all the code that seams to be the most changeable in a DLL. This give me the power to change the project having to […]

Introduction The Window Handle Picker application is a “Spy”-like tool that will display the window handle of any given window simply by dragging the mouse over that window (a feature that can prove invaluable as a debugging tool). As you can see from the figure above, the application also enables you to view such information […]

Environment:Visual C++ 6, Windows Template Library (WTL) DevStudio’s Tools|Customize menu displays a dialog box that contains a button control with an arrow on it. When pressed, the button will display a drop-down menu. I needed this feature in my ATL applications, but didn’t want the overhead of MFC or the headache of Win32. So I […]

When using #import to create wrapper classes for your own C++ COM objects, debugging and stepping into the COM methods can be tedious because you have to first step into the wrapper class and then COM object wrappers for many of the method’s paramenters (e.g. _bstr_t and _variant_t), before you finally get to the raw […]