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Environment: VC6 NT4 These wrapper classes are an easy way to use DirectDraw in you applications. It makes it easier for you by doing the following things: It initialises almost everything for you. Its very easy to change videomodes and device drivers It solves the problem of surface being bigger than screen by automatically dividing […]

When I worked on Unix systems, I thought that the Unix applications were so cool !! Therefore, I decided to sumbit this article/code that will enable you to achieve some of the same features regarding the appearance of Windows dialogs that Unix and LINUX programmers/users have come to know and love. Enjoy! First of all, […]

SQLFix prepares an string for insertion into an ODBC filter string’s WHERE clause. It checks a string for occurrences of the single-quote character(‘), and replaces each occurrence with two single quotes (”). This allows a string with a single quote to be used in WHERE clause, which is necessary because WHERE operands are delineated by […]

Introduction I started to write CoolControls in October last year. The inspiration for me was Corel 8.0 and its great, well-designed UI, especially the dialog controls. If you have already seen Corel then you exactly know what I mean. If no, download the demo project and take a brief look at it now! One picture […]

The demo for this article was built and compiled on Windows 98 using Visual C++ 6.0. To build the demo, load the async client project and do a complete build. This should also build the COM server project at the same time. You can test the demo by clicking the Asynchronous Request button and performing […]

. Do you remember memory-leak tracemessages from MFC ? The debug heap of Visual C in conjunction with Microsoft’s Foundation class library (MFC) dumps the memory of all objects that have not been freed at the time when the program exits to the trace window of Visual Studio. Two years ago I switched over to […]

It is sometimes necessary to convert between short and long paths. For example, in Win95/98, if the Path environment variable string exceeds 1024 bytes, the string gets truncated. Or, some apps do not accept long path names with spaces and short path names are required. I wrote a simple dialog-based app that takes a path […]

First time users attempting to create an application that contains Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) and dialog resources may run into a few problems that can get very confusing. The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) provides many useful articles and examples for building DLLs, however, the information contained in those articles is very distributed, and incorrect in […]

This article is based on another article found here on Codeguru : Alerting the user when an open file has been changed by another application (from Bernd Wib ler). This article showed us how a CDocument-class can be notified when the file is changed by another application. My problem is that my CDocument-class is like […]

This simple class encapsulates the multimedia timers. To use the class include mmTimers.cpp and mmTimers.h in your project. Link with winmm.lib. To use a timer derive a class from CMMTimers and override member timerProc. timerProc will be called when the timer goes off. Instantiate a variable of the new class. The parameter to the constructor […]

Environment: Win95 IE4.0 or Win98 or NT4.0 SP3; VC5.0 SP3 or VC6.0 SP2 xjCharts is a visual toolset for development of application components with event-driven behavior. It drastically saves developer’s time when dealing with concurrency and synchronization in multithreaded/multiprocess environments. When do you need a statechart? During its execution, a program performs operations in response […]

1 – Introduction 2 – Keyboard commands 3 – General comments 1 – Introduction Hi.. I started writing File As File Is (FaFi) in mid ’96. Initially all I wanted to achieve was to get real world programming experience for the Win32 platform. Suffice to say, I’ve gotten a little carried away and what you […]