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Environment: –> Introduction Has anyone ever wondered how to dock a toolbar inside a splitter pane? Normally you cannot do that, but you can alter your splitter pane so that it will look just like you placed a toolbar on one of it’s sides. The trick is to create a two-pane splitter where your initial […]

Environment: –> Introduction Many applications that display images or documents show rulers on both sides of the view to indicate your position within the page and allow a more accurate positioning of the cursor. Implementing rulers can be difficult, since we must reserve a space for them inside the view (this gets more difficult on […]

Running only one instance of an SDI/MDI application is easy. You only have to follow the examples, but doing this in a dialog-based application is something else. For some reason, you can’t use the PreCreateWindow of a dialog box, so you can’t change the class name to your desired class name, in order to use […]

Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 I read and used “Print the contents of the list control” by Ravi Reddy, as a basis for this code. His code is very good. However, I wanted a class that I could just plop into my view class as a contained member object to take over printing the list control. […]

I tried to use the Print code available in your site for List View Control. That was not good enough. The sample sends WM_PAINT message to itself after adjusting printer DC. The problem with this is this will only print currently visible items only and will not take care of Margins etc. It does not […]

In my application I needed an edit control which accepts only numeric numbers. In many science applications this is indispensable, but it is actually not implemented in MS-Visual C/C++. It is not difficult to implement this control and I see that some people implemented it. In my own code, some new features were enriched as […]

Environment: –> I have needed many times to open the file dialog at the current file’s path so that I can select other files related to current file. For example, we will often be doing ‘Find in Files’ in MSDEV’s Samples Directories or MFC Source Directories. Once some of those files are opened, we would […]

. Environment: Visual C++ 6.0 Simple VC++ 6.0 macro to add a comment to a file It is a good practice to have a header for each file in a project describing the contents ,purpose and modifications made. This simple macro will take reduce typing by filling up the necessary data to the header.It will […]

Macro that opens the corresponding .h / .cpp file (i.e. if fnurt.h is active it opens fnurt.cpp and vice verca) and works best if used via a accelerator key (using Alt-1 myself). Quite lo-tech but useful never the less. Sub GetFriendFile() ‘DESCRIPTION: Opens the corresponding .h / .cpp file currentFileName = Application.ActiveDocument.FullName newFileName = “” […]

Did you ever need to know, wether two given filenames point to the same file in the filesystem or not ? Since Microsoft provides UNC paths, every file may have two valid names: a short (traditional) and a long file name. OK – one could convert the long file name into a short one and […]

[What Does It Do?] [HTML Support/Restrictions] [Download It!] What does it do? QHTM is a control you can use to display HTML on a dialog or in your main window of your applications. Adding it into your application is as simple as either using CreateWindow or adding the control to your dialogs. You can give […]