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. Environment: VC6 SP3,Win98 Introduction The Useful managers Visual Studio add-in provides a number of workspace-related functions for C++ programs. 1) Tag indexing and search Tag Manager window provides a graphical view of classes and parent/children relationships in the workspace and additional directories (MFC source for example). Can find by name declaration of class, struct, […]

kSet ActiveX Edit Control For creation of the control the library ATL 3.0 and VC++ 6.0 (SP 3.0) was used. kSet Editor control don’t subclass an existing window. Properties Appearance: sets a appearance of control BackColor: the background color of the control BorderColor: the border color of the control. ForeColor: foreground color used to display […]

The CGCClock class allows the developer to quickly place a clock in a user interface. It is publicly derived from the CGCColorStatic class to provide the ability to control the background and text colors, the font utilized, the border style and more. The CGCClock class provides the capability to select between 12 hour format or […]

This class allows the developer to quickly place a countdown control in a user interface. It is publicly derived from the CGCColorStatic class to provide the ability to control the background and text colors, the font utilized, the border style and more. The CGCCountdownCtrl class provides the method Set() to set the starting point for […]

  Environment: VC++ 4.2 and above, Win95/98 When I saw the article "Multicolumn Combobox" by Jakawan Ratiwanich. Besides issues in comment, I noticed that his program still had three issues. First, items in ComboBox can not be sorted. Second, all items of the selected row are showed in edit control box. Third, if a combo […]

kSet Button ActiveX The kSet Button control is designed for developers who want an alternative to the standard Windows command button. It offers everything that the standard button offers plus a whole lot more. For creation of control the library ATL 3.0 and VC++ 6.0 (SP 3.0) was used. Control can be in several states: […]

Environment: VC6 SP1, SP2, SP3, NT4 SP4 ATL has no native string class. To manipulate strings, you have several choices: Standard Template Library (STL), roll-your-own C++ classes, or the tried-and-true MFC CString class. The problem with CString, though, is that it’s part of the MFC library. Many developers will include MFC support in their ATL […]

Environment: VC6 SP2, NT4 SP4 Currently the CreateDragImage method from CListCtrl only supports the generation of drag images of a single selected item (at least I didn’t found an alternative in the Win API). Inspired by an article from Pel K Txnder I found one way to create drag images for multiple selections. The trick […]

Environment: MS SQL Server 7.0 This code will attempt to detach, copy and reattach all databases of a SQL Server. If successful the copied databases will suitable for attachment to any other SQL Server. This can be useful when upgrading servers, or when a duplicate copy of a database is needed for other reasons It […]

The listview control enables a coder to set its normal background color and normal foreground color, but uses the system colors when highlighting. These system colors are only settable through the display properties dialog (yuk!) Ownerdrawing items will do the trick, but requires that the entire row be drawn by the user. Using the following […]

This article describes how to customize the default print dialog to include extra options included in your application. This procedure works for all common dialog except for the file dialog, see the related codeguru article for that. The basic steps are as follows: Subclass the CPrintDialog class in a new class (e.g. CMyPrintDialog). In the […]

Environment: VC6.0 SP2 The following is a progress dialog that can be used to show the progress of a lengthy operation, while also giving the user the ability to abort the process. The dialog itself is trivial, with three lines of static text, a progress control, and a “Cancel” button. The code has three classes, […]