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This is to demonstrate how to place toolbars with tooltips in a CFormView derived class. The Toolbar will be placed exactly inside the bounding rectangle of a CStatic control contained in the form view resource dialog. Then we must add the tooltips to each of the button by creating a CToolTipCtrl and adding each of […]

Download Source Code and Examples To add the sheet control to CChildFrame in a MDI application: add a new member CSheetsWnd m_wndSheets to CChildFrame class. override CChildFrame::OnCreateClient, and inside the function call m_wndSheets.Attach(this). From this moment all child windows from CChildFrame are put in sheet the contol, each view with one page. To add the […]

Download Source Code and Example The aim for this project was to control the colors of the TabCtrl. In MFC you are not able to configure your own color combinations for the TabCtrl. With this TabCtrlAdvanced you can choose your own colors for the background, the display area and the TabCtrl items. Normally the OnCtlColor […]

Download source files Implementing an owner drawn tab control requires that the tab control have the “owner draw fixed” style (TCS_OWNERDRAWFIXED), and that it have a mechanism for drawing itself when needed. To draw the tabs, just override the “DrawItem” function in your derived class. This function accepts a pointer to a DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure, which […]

 Download Source Code and Example Project. Latest Changes (Jeremy Davis) 26th May 1998 This is a simple CProgressCtrl derived class that allows text to be displayed on top of the progress bar in much the same way as many "Setup" programs display the progress of long operations. The control is extremely simple and allows the […]

  Download Source Code and Example Development Environment: VC5, 95 This is a simple class to display a gradient fill progress control.  It works just like the normal progress control. The main enhancements are that you can customize the colors and toggle the percentage caption’s visibility.  The control can be incorporated into a project like […]

Download source files (5 Kb) or a Sample project (38 Kb) There are many occasions where it’s nice to have a poopup window that shows the progress of a lengthy operation. Incorporating a dialog resource with a progress control and cancel button, then linking up the control messages for every project you wish to have […]

CProgressST features: Standard CProgressCtrl properties Support for 256+ colors bitmaps Support for negative ranges! Easy to use! Written in Visual C++ v5.0 Full source code included! It’s free! You are encouraged to use this class everywhere you want; there is no fee required for CProgressST. Freely add modifications and/or fix bugs, but please, send any […]

Select which icon you want. Download Source Code and Example If you’ve used any version of windows you’ve changed the icon for a shortcut.  The dialog used allows you to select from a list of icons found in a DLL, EXE or even an ICO file.  I needed such a control, so I wrote one.  […]

 Download Source Code and Example (45k) Special note:Thanks goes to Keith Rule for the CMemDC class which is used in the code. In some of the applications I have developed, there has been a need for user creatable options and for the integration of new object types into an application without changing the application code. […]

Download Source Code and Example Checked list boxes are often used to show multiple choices that are from multiple-column data source. You might want to try to put a tab between words to separate each item in the list, like its parent, list box. But if you set LBS_USETABSTOPS for your checked list box style […]

  Download Source Code and Example project I had a desire/requirement on a recent project to have a CCheckListbox class that allowed for more than one checkbox in front of the string. The 3-state style set by the CCheckListbox simply didn’t do what I wanted or needed. I had a list of people who could […]