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Note: the following is a copy of the original article I wrote for Codeguru, with all amandments since added. Thank you all for your interest After spending much time looking for an authentic-looking DevStudio™-alike docking dialog bar, I found very few possible contenders. The best of which is Alger Pike’s "DevStudio-like CControlBar", which, unfortunately, fell […]

Implementing tooltips for a modal dialog’s controls is pretty easy. Just add the following code to your dialog’s OnInitDialog function and implement PreTranslateMessage. Changes to header files private: HICON m_hIcon; CToolTipCtrl m_tool; Add to implementation file void CToolTipDlg::OnInitDialog() { // Create tooltip object m_tool.Create(this); // Add tooltip to the control m_tool.AddTool(GetDlgItem(Dialog control ID here),tooltip as […]

My COpenFileDlg class is an Open or Save dialog that does not allow the user to navigate to any other directory and it only shows files of one specific extension. Sometimes we don’t want to allow the user to switch to another directory or we only need to bring up files of a desired type. […]

Description CColorStaticST is a class derived from MFC CStatic class. This class lets put static controls inside your applications and easly make them colored or even blinking! CColorStaticST features: Standard CStatic properties Customizable background color Customizable text color Background color can blink Text can blink Notification message can be sent on rising blinks Written in […]

A list view gives the GUI designer many options. One of the best is the ability to display tabular data in columns, sort columns, add images and more. This is well implemented by CListView in MFC. A checked list box enables the GUI designer to get the users picked options via a checkbox on every […]

If you have a list control in your dialog with the LVS_EX_CHECKBOXES style, you can make the check boxes to act like radiobuttons by adding two lines of code.. First map the LVN_ITEMCHANGED event of the list control from the class wizard and add the code shown void CListDlg::OnItemchangedMylist(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult) { NM_LISTVIEW* pNMListView […]

All Windows application look the same which is all well and good from the users perspective but how do you make your applications stand out without alienating the user? By making minor changed to the way that your application looks you can produce great looking applications which still feel the same to the user. Everybody […]

Property Sheet Wizard is a Visual C++ 4.0 AppWizard (it won’t work with 5.0 for some reason…I havn’t tested it with 6.0 though) that creates a shell extension DLL that adds another property page to the Properties dialog, as shown on the left. (Right-click on a file and choose Properties to display this dialog). The […]

MACRO: REMOVEEMPTYLINES PURPOSE: To remove double empty lines (two 0x0a 0x0a in a row) WHY: When converting from mac/unix/dos text file formats some programs stuff up by making double lines which is annoying HOW: Just mark your area and run the macro Sub RemEmptyLines() Dim comp str = ActiveDocument.Selection.Text str1 = “” comp = vbLf […]

Environment: VC 6.0, IE 4 Introduction This article demonstrates the use of URL Search Hooks in IE 4.0. It has been implemented as a simple DLL which was created using ATL-COM AppWizard and has just one object called SrchHook. SrchHook implements the Translate function and has a property "srch". This article also shows how to […]

For an installation application, I needed a control to have the user choose the target installation drive. Since the application is targeted for Windows 95/98/NT, I thought it would be nice to use at least the same names as the Windows Explorer. When I found out where to get them (SHGetFileInfo) I saw that this […]

Story: One thing I’ve missed from VisualC++ was a way to develop fast a database application. There are some data bound ActiveX controls that come with VisualC++ 5.0, but a data source for DAO is missing. The RDO is buggy (or at least was in VC 5.0 SP1 – with SP3 it seems more stable, […]