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. RscFinder is a handy tool that helps finding executables or DLLs in Windows 95/98 or NT. Enter a text you are looking for and RscFinder searches all menues, dialogs, stringtables and messagetables of all files in a folder. RscFinder looks and works like the find-tool in the start menu. After searching, a list of […]

What you use it for is up to you, of course. The function by itself doesn’t do anything, it only parses through the dialog resource. At various points in the code you’ll see exactly where you can grab info and make use of it. I needed to roll my own property sheet and property page […]

Environment: Compiled using VC6.0 Sp3 and tested using Win95/98 WinNT4.0 and Win 2000 Sometimes you find yourself needing an indicator to reflect various statuses. For example, receive and transmit on a modem. The following article is a simple LED static class. The CLed class is a static control for a simple LED control and is […]

You must have noticed that many there are many occassions while developing an ATL component ,when you feel that you should trace some messages at some point.For such purpose,first thing which almost every one tries is ATLTRACE or ATLTRACE2 both of which Trace the messages on debug output,That is perfect.But problem is that you can […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP4, Windows 95/98 Have you ever experienced an error while loading a DLL when you start an application? Invalid DLL version? Entry point @XXXX not found? If the answer is yes, then this application is for you! On you LAN, there may be thousands of versions of a DLL! Which version […]

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Environment: VC++ 5.0; NT 4.0 What’s this? This article describes how to implement Windows Manager dialog. It manages currently open windows (Activate, Save, Close, Tile, Cascade, Minimize) How to use it? 1. Add to your CMainFrame class member variable of type CMDIClient A good practice is to keep the variables protected (or private). 2. Then […]

CResizingDialog This resizing dialog class was inspired by the code contributed by Hans Buehler, which I have used extensively in the past. In writing this class I have attempted to fix the problem of the excessive flicker that occurs as you resize a dialog and the controls are dynamically moved around (I assume you have […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP5 These are the steps to follow to create a dialog resembling the DevStudio Properties dialog: clicking outside the dialog induces dialog closing, unless the Keep Visible button was previously pressed. Include the NewButton.h and NewButton.cpp files in your project Create a dialog with a button with Owner Draw style Define […]

This article was contributed by MB. Environment: VC5/6 win95/98 I’m looking for Visual C++ 5.0 style menu bar, but most of products require MSIE4 or a new comctrl32.dll(don’t encourage me do update) . So I’ve made a class called CMenuBar which don’t use any common controls. To use CMenuBar in a MFC application, you have […]

Connection Points are a way of letting Server to notify you when something has happened in the server which you wanted to know of.I started using connection points when I was just learning how to code in COM.I came across a lot of issues including the performance .Eventually I learned the how and whys (not […]

Environment: VC6 SP3, NT4 SP5 This is MS Visual Studio add-in to find and replace texts across project files (if any loaded). (Project files == files enumerated in project’s .dsp file. They appear in workspace’s FileView.) It is based on MS sample project ReplAll. It enhances the sample functionality – possibility to find and replace […]