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Do you find that it is much easier to comment or uncomment a block of code in Visual Basic editor? I wrote a couple of macro routines to do the same for Visual C++ editor. When you select a block of code and click on CommentBlock toolbar button, the selected text will be commented out […]

It is very difficult and toilsome to implement code that checks every single control on a given dialog for changes; especially for complex dialogs. Normally you have to check all fields when the dialog was closed (let’s say in OnOK) or have to catch all events like EN_CHANGED or BN_CLICKED to notice a changing. But […]

Environment: Visual C++ 5 and 6 Description The Project Line Counter add-in reports statistics about files in your Visual C++ projects. Line Counter was created in order to demonstrate various programming tools and techniques. Features Varied statistical data about your source code, including: Number of lines Lines with code Lines with C/C++ style comments Mixed […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, Windows95/98/NT4/2000 TlbDlg_OK is a sample how to work with common toolbar from several dialog-based applications. Project TlbDlg_OK (see Downloads demo and source files) creates 2 applications tb.exe (toolbar) TbDlg_OK.exe (dialog application) > What to run at first – TbDlg_OK.exe or TB.exe is not important. Click several times exclamation mark in TB.exe to […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6 (SP3) Many times I wanted to have an easy way to get the same functionality in Microsoft Visual C++ that Visual Basic provides, i.e. to insert into the source code some debug messages and have them displayed at runtime into a separated, dedicated window (…the "Immediate" window in Visual Basic). I […]

The class CObserver is a base class from which you can derive both observer and subject classes. An ‘observer’ object is one whose internal state depends upon the internal state of one or more other objects. The objects that it depends on are referred to as ‘subjects’. The class interface is very simple, having only […]

Environment: VC++ 6.0, Win2K, NT 4.0 SP6 and Win98 Note: You also need to download the Windows Template Library (WTL) from the Platform SDK (April 2000) I needed a toolbar with drop down arrows so that I could place some pop-up menus on them. Initially I tried handling the notification messages from within the parent […]

Environment: Windows 9x/NT/2K, Version 4.00 (or later) of Shell32.dll Introduction The function SHFileOperation, enables you to copy, move or delete a file system object. As you can see, this function takes as its sole parameter a pointer to a SHFILEOPSTRUCT structure (also shown below). // SHFileOperation syntax WINSHELLAPI int WINAPI SHFileOperation(LPSHFILEOPSTRUCT lpFileOp); // SHFILEOPSTRUCT layout […]

Environment: NT4 VC5 (also tested on WIN98 VC6) This is based on the article “CreateDragImage for multiple selected items in CListCtrl” by Frank Kobs. Thanks Frank for the idea! I have some suggestions to Frank’s CreateDragImageEx() with the following advantages: You can use the code in VC5 (of course, it can also be used in […]

A while back ago, I realized that I didn’t want to fill in the LOGFONT structure anymore, so I created the CAutoFont class, derived from CFont, so it can be used in place of any CFont objects that you may already have in your code. The benifit of the class is that you don’t have […]

While this certainly isn’t the most difficult of sequences it simply cries out to be automated. Therefore, in this article, I present you with a very simple macro that automates the entire process of opening a resource file in “text mode”. Enjoy! Code ‘—————————————————— ‘FILE DESCRIPTION: Open Current Resource Script As Text ‘—————————————————— sub OpenRCAsText() […]