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Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2000 Server Firstly add the CMyTabCtrl.cpp and CMyTabCtrl.h to your project. Using Visual Studio add a CTabCtrl control to your dialog. Add a member variable for this control as a CMyTabCtrl type not a simple CTabCtrl. CMyTabCtrl is derived from CTabCtrl. You can simply add a CTabCtrl […]

Environment: VC6  An alternative to Zafir Andum’s approach on determining right click on the header control is to use the HDM_HITTEST message in order to determine  on which header item the user right clicked. This saves you the "for" loop for the determination of the column. Here is an example: BOOL CMyListtCtrl::OnNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, […]

Environment: VC5/6, NT4, CE 2.11 Once upon a day I was asked to write an application which could do some serious filtering, on a ‘;’ seperatedfile which held multiple collumns. The initial file was about 7 Mb in size, so I had to create a program which could read a file, process the read lines […]

. Max Vigilante. Bartolo Sorrentino. Environment: NT4 SP3; Developed with VC 60 SP3; Unitalk2 is a simple talk with some strange detail: It’s an application built on ATL technology It utilizes Connection Points The UniTalk application (UniTalk2.exe) acts as both the server and client depending on the start method* *if you start the application from […]

Document Selector is a Windows taskbar like control which enables user to quickly jump to a selected document easily in a MDI application. The idea came in my mind after using Editplus, a text editor from ES-Computing. I was seeking some help for the purpose as I was unable to write the whole thing from […]

If you’re writing programs to interface with the Windows Shell, chances are you’ll eventually want to use the SHGetFileInfo function. This function “retrieves information about an object in the file system, such as a file, a folder, a directory, or a drive root”. However, this information may come at a heavy price. Recently, I wrote […]

There was one reason why I sat down to write this class. And as is usually the case, necessity is the mother of invention. Well, it started off like this. I had a time consuming task going on and during this time I wanted to have an animated tray icon to appear in the tray […]

This article was contributed by Tom Archer. There are times when, as a programmer, you might be faced with scenarios where you do not know the schema of a database until runtime. Examples of this are ad-hoc query and reporting tools. In both cases, the end user is allowed to build their own SQL from […]

Microsoft’s Visual C++ on-line help says that DAO is safe to use in DLL’s. Therefore, I created a DLL which I use to access the same database my main application thread is accessing, in order to do a background report with one worker thread.. From the main application’s point of view it is creating wrapper […]

Environment: Windows 98, Visual C++ 6 I created this class because I needed a class to allow me to synchronize my local system with files on a remote system. At first, I looked to MSDN for help, but couldn’t get their examples to work. Then, I looked to CodeGuru for assistance. I posted the question […]

This article was contributed by D.Sivakumar This article is based on an article contributed by Peter Pearson . Since I found my own version of this solution to be quite useful, in implementing expanding dialogs, I thought I would share mine with others as well. What I’ve done is to consolodate the code into a […]

Ever wanted one of those fancy color picking dialogs that apps like Corel PhotoHouse have ? If you did, here it is !! First, some general stuff about how I got this stuff together. The most important part, obviously , is the color space conversion from RGB to HSB. I got some help ( lots […]