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Presented ActiveX control encapsulates spreadsheet functionality and is very similar to MS FlexGrid control. Why I decided to create my own control? The answer is obvious: because I didn’t like existing. Users of my projects are mainly accountants with relatively weak hardware: 486s with 8-12MB RAM. MS FlexGrid works on this platform, but scrolls too […]

 Download source files (4Kb) or Sample Project (37Kb). Introduction Construction Operations Default message handling Example of use NOTE on TrackPopupMenu Latest additions: Icon animation added, default menu item selectable. Introduction This is a conglomeration of ideas from the MSJ “Webster” application, sniffing round the online docs, and from other implementations such as PJ Naughter’s “CTrayNotifyIcon” […]

This sample was contributed by Thierry Maurel. The simple contextual menu   Screen-saver enabled… …and disabled If you have ever tryed to read some big technical documentation on MSDN, you will be aware of how irritating the screensaver is. The inverse is annoying too : waiting for a locking-screensaver or open Display Properties to select […]

Environment: VC5 SP3, NT4 SP4 Introduction This class allows you to create self extracting executables for use in distribution or setup programs. Many people have helped me along the way to produce this class but here are a couple I would like to thank. Levente Farkas – For the suggestion of how the class might […]

My project had very big dialog which needed to be split in to many property pages. Some of the property pages again needed a split. Then I tried to do it using CPropertySheet and CPropertyPage. But I could not find a way to stick CPropertySheet inside another CPropertySheet. My CMutliRowTabView and CTesttabCtrl did the job. […]

Ever wanted a 14 segment display in your app? But you don’t like the large amount of bitmaps for every char? And you don’t want more bitmaps for another color? Or much more bitmaps for other sizes? The solution is here! I present you two new classes CDigiDisplay is a class derived from MFC CStatic […]

This article illustrates how to create and use Statically linked Non-MFC (Implicit) DLLs. In order to build applications using DLLs in this way you must have .dll distribution with .lib & .h files. Lemme create DLL which can export whole class with method and variable and global variable with global procedure. I call this as […]

. Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP3, Win95/98 The class I present performs the classic dragging and resizing of multiple objects, like vectoriel editors or CAD programs. It does the same operations that the CRectTracker, with an array of rectangles instead of a single rectangle. Those rectangles could be implemented with a CArray, but the […]

Environment: Windows NT4.0. SP5 Introduction This class implements a brand new kind of dialog box that can be used with dialog based aplications. This class contains a Tab instead of the Dialog Title Bar. What is so cool about this dialog is that the dialog actually docks to side of the desktop. Then when the […]

Why did I write this function? I basically had an application where I needed to print the contents of a Listbox control and I couldn’t use the built-in doc/view printing. Now this data had fields with widths longer than the field width I could allow for each column. So I thought I would use the […]

Environment: Windows NT 4 SP6, Visual C++ 6 SP3 There are quit many forms of IPC. I have made extensive use of named pipe communication, however this is in many cases overkill when you only need IPC within the system. Shared memory can be the solution. I have made this code as much standard C++ […]

Environment: Wnidows NT4 SP5, Visual C++ 6 SP2 Ever wanted to make a Control Panel Applet using MFC but couldent get it to work? Simlpy folow these steps: 1. Make a MFC DLL using the project wizard. 2. In the CWinApp header file define the folowing members: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // PanelApp.h class CPanelApp : public CWinApp […]