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Environment:This code was compiled with VC++ 6.0 and will work under both UNICODE and ANSI. Previous submissions for Listview tooltips have used the complicated ‘CellRectFromPoint’ function written by Zafir Anjum. With the advent of IE3 and the common controls library version 4.70, we now have access to a simpler method via the function SubItemHitTest The […]

First off, I would like to acknowledge that most of this code came from others at Code Guru. I took code from some of the articles submitted by Zafir Anjum, so look at his article “Editable Subitems” as a basis for this article. This project demonstrates how the list view/control can be used to edit […]

This article is very strightfoward but I thought it was a feature that most people could use in their own custom CListCtrls or CLIstViews. I had the need in one of my projects to allow the user to rearrange the order of the ListCtrl but I didn’t want to allow them to drag and drop. […]

If you do not want to go through the hassle implementing OwnerDraw list controls, where you got to code a bunch of stuff inside the DrawItem override, then you can use the CustomDraw handler. With version 4.70 of the Comctrl.dll, you can handle row data, but with the 4.72+ version of the Dll, you can […]

Maybe sometimes someone wants to control services. If he or she is administrator, I thing this program may be helpful. Things to try: 1. Double-click list item to see dependencies. 2. Press F1 to see a-quite-not-usual-about-box. 3. Control services via start/stop/pause down-left buttons. 4. Right-click on list to customize appearance.. 5. Click on list header […]

Configuring workstations to handle shared DLLs is difficult. In many organizations, the PATH environment becomes a point of contention between project teams. Configuring a PATH specific to your application can solve the problems associated with using a common search PATH, and eliminate many configuration errors in your application as well. This article first describes the […]

Environment: Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 The support for multiple languages within one application has always been a drag, for NT 4.0 and Window 2000 I have fond a simple solution. Unfortunatley this does not work for Windows 95 or 98 🙁 1. Add all the resources (dialogs, strings, menues etc.) in all of the […]

Alot of times, programming internet applications you need to know wether the computer is connected to the internet? In some occasions you can try to use RasEnumConnections, in most cases on a typical computer opened Ras Connection mean that the user is connected to the internet. However, this idea won’t work in case the user […]

Environment: VC5, NT4, win98 Thanks to Chris Maunder for introducing the printing method in Printing without the Document/View framework. Many people have been asking for print preview without the doc/view framework as well. However, so far, no body has proposed a way to do that in this column yet. (Except for the unknown ‘m_bPrintPreview’ suggestion, […]

Environment: Visual C++ 5.0 & SP3, Windows NT 4.0 & SP5, Unicode, MBCS This is an updated version – thanks to Donald R. Kichline. Motivation From time to time, I need to sort arrays containing custom data types, structures, or simple data types provided by C++.  Because I use MFC and CArray, I was looking […]

. Some times you need information about a workstation, for example if you want to know if a workstation is not running WindowsNT and you try some NT-specific job without any chance. I think this pseudo-routine can be helpful. #include /*Usually: #include #include #include #include */ // Network API job – […]

Environment: Window95/98, NT Well, this project actually started as an effort to do multithreaded DAO.  I had some calculations that were running *much* too long on user’s machines and there was some concern that people might actually reboot their machines, thinking they had locked up.   The calculations in question involved going back and forth […]