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Copyright © 1998-1999 Chris Maunder. Download source files (56 Kb) or sample project (101 Kb). Check out latest changes (version 1.12) here. Environment: VC++ 5.0, VC 6.0 SP1, NT 4.0 (SP3,4), Win95/98, WinCE 2.0/2.11 Introduction General appearance and features Structures, defines and Messages Files Colours Protected overridable functions Constuction General cell information Clipboard Number of […]

ActiveX hyper linking is a technology, which allows applications to provide navigation to different parts of documents. If you go to the MSDN->Platform SDK->Internet/Intranet/Extranet Services->Internet tools and technologies->Hyperlinks you will be able to read more comprehensive description of this technology. Here I will just try to describe how I succeeded to add hyper linking capabilities […]

This article requires VC++ 6.0. Lately I’ve had to create a variety of ATL collections and have used many different methods. ATL 3.0 provides many different templates to help do this, but may favorite ATL collection helper, IEnumOnSTLImpl isn’t covered in the docs at all. As its name suggests, it provides implementation for the IEnumXXXX […]

The class described here replaces my former issue cdxCBevelLine. This class provides the following options: Features: A bevel line even if user has strange fonts (have you ever created a sunken static with a height of 1 for a bevelline and tested your program on a machine that has 200% larger fonts ?). Text rotates […]

Overview The CSeparator class is an enhancement to standard static text controls that duplicates the look of the Office 97 products’ options screens, like Word (pictured). This separator element is a nice alternative when you want to avoid really big or nested group boxes, or just look like you’re keeping up with Microsoft’s ever-changing UI […]

. This is one of my first extensions to the MFC … since I just have been asked to publish it, here is what I expected to come from Microsoft: A static control that displays a bevel line (i.e. a 3d-shaded-Line). How to put a bevelline in my dialog: In the dialog resource editor, put […]

While MFC does provide a rich edit control, it does not provide a quick and easy way to handle formatting and RTF codes. CAutoRichEditCtrl is a derivative of CRichEditCtrl. This new class adds several functions that allow you to add formatting quickly. It also provides two functions to let you retrieve the formatted text (RTF) […]

Description CDigitST is a class derived from MFC CStatic class. This class easly lets put digital counters inside your applications! CDigitST features: Easy to use! Create a new digital style just drawing a bitmap Automatic resize feature Written in Visual C++ v5.0 Full source code included! It’s free! You are encouraged to use this class […]

Download project files. Class CXJWDigitClock is a static control derived from CStatic. It displays as a digital clock,as shown below: There are three properties in CXJWDigitClock face color <—–> SetColor(); second style <—–> SetStyle(); alarm mode <—-> SetAlarm(); Usage: Check the sample project for the detail. Note: You should insert all 12 bitmaps in your […]

This article is based on the code written by Shekar Narayanan and Subby Rajan. I have replaced the next and previous month buttons by 4 owner-drawn buttons representing previous year, previous month, next year and next month for 2 reasons: 1) pressing the right mouse button for changing the year isn’t user friendly in my […]

.   Print preview is an extremely useful part of the MFC Doc/View architecture. However, the appearance of the print preview toolbar leaves a lot to be desired, and has not been updated since print preview was first added to MFC. The usual MFC-supplied preview button bar is shown below: Compare this with the replacement […]

Thanks to Marc Flerackers for updating the Article. If you often use Dialogs and want to resize them you will have noticed, that there is no feature in the MFC that helps you. You have to do it by hand. Maybe you have seen the GridBagLayout in Java(tm), then this one will look familiar to […]