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This article was contributed by Tom Archer. Environment: Source will work on VC++ 5 and higher. However, the demo application will only work on VC++ 6 and higher as it uses the CHtmlView class. This class (CAccessReports) was created for those of us who have the misfortune of having to 1) use the MS Access […]

Environment: The demo project was created with Visual C++ 6.0. In order to run the compiled example (included) you need to have mfc42.lib version 6.0 or better. If you don’t have it, you won’t be able to run it. You must recompile the project. This article is based upon a previous article written by Brent […]

Environment: The demo was built with Microsoft Developer Studio 97 (Visual C++ 5.0) and has been tested with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0. Applications sometimes need to create a child process whose output may, by default, be written to a console window. Running a batch file is a good example of this. […]

If you are familiar with Internet Explorer 4.0 you would find that in the Advanced Internet Settings there is an option "Browse in a New Process". If you uncheck this check box and run IExplorer.exe and then start task manager (or Process Viewer) you would find that there is no IExplorer in the processes yet […]

As the name suggests, this is a simple class to extract tokens from a CSting. I wrote this class becuase during the course of my final year project at University I needed a simple way to extract ‘tokens’ from a CString. This is what I came up with. Its probably not the best or most […]

In a previous article we discussed how to replace views in a document-view application. The views to replace were destroyed, and new views were created to replace them. Sometimes it’s better to preserve the views and use them later rather than to destroy and recreate them. In this article we show how to switch to […]

To fully understand what follows some previous knowledge is required, namely how MFC creates documents, frame windows and views using document templates and how their relationship is maintained in the program. A previous article showing how to replace views in non-OLE applications is a recommended reading. First of all lets understand how the framework creates […]

First I thought this would be an easy fix. But it wasn’t. It took a while to figure things out but then I had a solution which works. While digging into the problem, I first found the information that Windows 9x and Windows NT require a different handling to toggle the NumLock key. That problem […]

Environment: Win98, VC 5.0 Introduction: Do you have code like this in your InitInstance() ? … ClassXY::GlobalInit(); ClassZA::GlobalSetup(); ClassMurx::Prepare(); … Then this is what you need! The cdxCInitializerT base class helps you to design a proper, clear interface to initialize any objects you want in application scope (i.e. your CWinApp object exists during the initialization).  […]

One of the first things that I noticed when learning C++, was that function pointers had become much more difficult to use with object architecture. Each function/method needs to know what object it is part of.  So, to point to an object’s method, we also must know about an object. Using the data from each, we […]

. You can also find this and other articles at his web site at http://www.wizsoft.com/~poul/srs/ Because copy has different meaning with different classes, there are several pointer classes here. Smart pointers classes. Replace the now obsolete CWizPtr, BaseMultiRefPtr, and MultiRefPtr.(I don’t remove them for convenience only). No plain C/C++ pointers again! File SmartPointers.h defines the […]

Many hands make work light, likewise many objects join hands in the development of complex systems. The rule of thumb in Object Oriented Design is to decompose the system into a set of cooperating objects. Each decomposed object must be complete and it should express a high degree of cohesion and have a low degree […]