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The numeric edits here are supposed to work with floats, they are somewhat based on the code on T. VU KHAC’ Numeric edit and numeric spin controls. So he may have some copyrigths. These classes should be easier to use than his, and depend less on each other. The 3 numeric edits in this project […]

Environment: VC6 Windows 9x/NT/2000 A Page from the Windows 2000 Style Wizard Introduction There are two main differences between the traditional MFC-CPropertySheet wizards and the Windows 2000 wizards: The Windows 2000 wizard has a white background. The “page” portion of the Windows 2000 wizard extends all the way to the edge of the dialog. The […]

This article was contributed by Tom Archer. Introduction One pretty cool little class that Microsoft introduced back in version 4 of MFC was the CCtrlView class. However, it amazes me to see how misunderstood and underutilized this class is with regards to being used as a base class. In other words, even now, some 4 […]

This article was contributed by Tom Archer. Introduction Like most authors, I try and include a lot of demo applications with my books and articles. It was in the writing of one of my books that I realized that it would be really cool if all of my demo applications were to contain an About […]

This project is a sample of how you can merge XML-files with a MS Word template. This makes it easy to create a mailmerge-system. I’ve created a ActiveX DLL to perform the mailmerge. This makes it very easy to reuse this code in other applications. An example When you have a customer-database and you want […]

Environment: Windows NT4 (SP6), Visual C++ 6 (SP2) Introduction This is a data grid built using ATL 3.0, STL and Win32 API. The article provides some explanation about the grid’s capabilities. I will not describe in detail the implementation of my grid because there is a lot of code and I do not think that […]

First of all I have to mention that Alon Peleg helped me find the solution to the problem so I feel it is only fair that his name will be mentioned as an author. On a recent project we did I had to make the header control of a CListCtrl multiline. This small project show […]

This article was contributed by Tom Archer. Initialized dialog (before user has input any data). Notice prompts inside edit controls that relieve dialog designer of having to place static controls on dialog (or view). Introduction If you’ve ever used Intuit’s Quicken or Peachtree’s Accounting for Windows, you may have noticed something called a “grey edit […]

Click here for larger image Environment: Internet Explorer (IE) 5, Visual C++ 6 (SP3) There is no longer any need to introduce XML. One year ago it was still possible to bounce into a colleague who would not have not heard about XML. Today it has become a household name. What has happenend is that […]

. The current release of the product I help develop exposes an Automation programming interface. Both the front end and the exposed COM objects are coded using MFC. As with any MFC-based COM object, our Automation objects rely on MFC’s support for COM found inside CCmdTarget. When I first implemented these objects, I was discouraged […]

Environment: Visual C++ 5 (SP1), Windows 95 (SP2), Windows 98 (SP1) This is a simple SDI application that allows to view and print the “usual” Windows files from MFC, such as HTML, TXT, DOC, XLS, PDF, PPT and so forth, provided that you already have defined an association for each file type on your system. […]

Introduction Once I was engaged in the project, whose main features were theh presence of a great amount of the typical forms of input and output generally associated with Office-type applications. The documents were to be filled from a data store, which the program would display via the use of views. It would be extremely […]