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Update Subitems now supports images Bugfixes reported by you Improved sorting See the history section in the SuperGridCtrl.cpp file Okay yet another full blown ownerdraw listview control with a tree like thing in the first column. Features The listview control has support for editing subitems and basic user navigation. To edit an item hit the […]

This FlatHeader control is my contribution to the effort of mimicking all the new Microsoft flat style controls. Apart from the look and feel of the Outlook 98 Header control, it extends the functionality of the standard Header control with the following features: Optional size constraints, Optional sorting arrow (without loosing the image nor bitmap […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP4, Visual C++ 6 This CColorListBox class is based on Patrice Godard’s colored list box class of the same name, with the following additions: The focus rectangle is now drawn only when the control has the input focus. Items in the list are properly colored when the list box is disabled. Items […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP4, Visual C++ 6 This image shows an example of my CMacSliderCtrl and CMacProgressCtrl. For more information on the CMacProgressCtrl, please refer to this article. This class is my attempt at recreating the slider control of the Macintosh. This control (CMacSliderCtrl) allows you to change the thumb, channel and selection colors. Public […]

Environment: Windows NT4 SP4, Visual C++ 6 This image shows an example of my CMacProgressCtrl and CMacSliderCtrl. For more information on the CMacSliderCtrl, please refer to this article. This class is my attempt at recreating the progress control of the Macintosh. This control (CMacProgressCtrl) allows you to change its colors as well as set an […]

Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP5 This article demonstrates drag and drop between tree controls using OLE Drag and Drop. It also allows an item to be dropped on same tree control.When an item is dropped all the children of that item are also dropped on the target. The following key combination can be used: Left […]

When using a ListView it may be useful to inform the user that the control is empty, like Microsoft Outlook does. Doing this is pretty straightforward. Just derive your own ListView control from CListCtrl and add a WM_PAINT event handler to your derived class. class CEmptyListCtrl : public CListCtrl { // Construction public: // Overrides […]

It was inspired by the registry API wrapper class by Shane Martin which you can find here at codeguru. Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP5 I first used the registry class provided by Shane. But – for my purposes – I needed other functionality. So I wrote my own code. This class now provides the capability […]

The AutoPtr<> class is an extension of std::auto_ptr<> template class from the Standard Template Library. The main purpose of it is to destroy automatically some dynamically allocated resource (e.g. a memory, but it may be some other custom resource) after an AutoPtr<> object is destroyed. Although this class is designed as a safe class that […]

Here is an add-in module for Developer Studio which automatically creates and modifies the file "AutoBuildCount.h" that contains a macros with a build count values. The file can be inserted into your current project.  For example, if your project is on build 6, the contents of the file look like this: // 6 #ifndef AUTOBUILDCOUNT_H#define […]

. Introduction Syntax and options About StampVer response files Integrating with Microsoft Developer Studio Notes and Queries Disclaimer Download Introduction StampVer was written to allow easy stamping of a build number into the version resource of a Win32 executable. This build number can be specified on the command line, or via a response file. If […]

The tool I want to post is a DEF-file generator for people who want to use import by ordinals in large projects. The problem is that you should manually process the output of the DUMPBIN.EXE or similar utility and then manually edit large DEF-files. Another problem is that you should keep old ordinal numbers untouched […]