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Environment: Windows 95/98, Visual C++ 5.0 SP3 These are two classes I’m using to draw easy (absolutely not complex) graphs. I wrote it because I need a light (and cheap) control that could solve some problems about data showing. What This Control Can Do draw on the same chart few (up to 64, but you […]

Environment: Windows 98, Visual C++ 5.0 A fine class for lazy operators 🙂 This is an enhanced edit class: it allows to reduce the input time recording the words previously inserted and showing them when some letters are typed. This class is generated starting from CEdit, and can store up to 128 (but it’s possible […]

Introduction This article is in continuance with my earlier article which discribed the need for a connection point.It however showed a simulation of connection points. Why this article? In the previous article I explained and demonstrated the need of a connection point.I developed a simple server whihc has a custom callback interface and which is […]

Environment: VC6 SP2, 95/98/NT This article shows you how to create an Internet shortcut for Windows 95, 98, and NT computers. Creating internet shortcut is little different than the general shortcut, so the code for Internet shortcut creation is shown. Before you see the code, you should understand the variables I’m using: pszURL – url […]

. What is new Introduction Examples of how to use SmartPtr How does SmartPtr work?   What is new SmartPtr objects can accept different pointer types – details Passing a SmartPtr object as function parameter or function result is as efficient as passing an integer value or regular pointer – details.   Introduction The SmartPtr […]

Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP5 Most common solution to organize a big amount of information in a dialog box is to use a property sheet with a set of property pages. However, this approach has several problems: It is not easy to add controls to the property sheet (outside of property pages). Things become fuzzy […]

Environment: VC4-6 Message service of Windows is very inconvenient for using as own service due to the followings: – you can either make your own messages higher WM_USER, but this code is not portable, or dynamically allocate message identificators, but this give awful operators if in DefWindowProc; – you need inherit all message clients from […]

Environment: Windows NT 4 SP5, Visual C++ 6 SP2 In a recent project that uses an IPX protocol for communication between multiple Windows NT stations and multiple DOS stations, I needed to find out the IPX node address of the local computer as well as the node addresses of all computers on the network (running […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP5, Visual C++ 6 SP2 When creating applications with a complex view layout, there are several features that are missing from MFC. First, each type of view layout is created differently (simple view vs. splitter vs. nested splitter). Simple view layout does not need any additional code (MFC handles the creation). Splitter […]

Environment:Visual C++ 6 Annoying as it is, the Visual C does not provide an automatic Toolbar for Dialog Classes. Many of the Apps I create are Dialog based. I enjoy providing the user with the prototypical MS toolbar for starting events. I realize this article may be simplistic, however, many of the readers (I include […]

Features Here are just some of the cool features of this menu class. Vertical bitmap can be shown to the left side of menu items of popup menu, just like Windows start menu. Child controls can be placed on the menu window. Usage Instructions: In order to use CBmpMenu class, user needs to use the […]

SpeedySCM is an improvement on the NT Service Control Manager. Even though I’ve seen two other service control managers posted at CodeGuru (called “Services” and “ServiceInstaller”), I believe this program has a couple of interesting features: Mulitple selection SpeedySCM allows you to start, pause, stop, and continue multiple services with a single click. Terminate – […]