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Download the source This took about 10 minutes to create. I based this on my CFlatEdit control which was based on Kirk Stowell’s CFlatComboBox control Pretty easy to use. Nice control actually. I like the flat look so these are some pretty useful classes to me Information To Use this class : Create a new […]

I find it quite irritating that one cannot change the style of a CListBox from single to multiple and back dynamically. After plenty of searching the most common solution I found was to place two ListBox controls, one set to Single selection and the other to multiple. The user then populates the two with the […]

In order to catch the “Enter” key, and other special keys in a CListCtrl (or any control for that matter) it is necessary to derive your own class and add a handler for the WM_GETDLGCODE message. To allow all special keys to be processed by the control add the following: UINT SMUPPGrid::OnGetDlgCode() { UINT result […]

Download Source Code The following code illustrates how to implement Horizonal Extent handling for a CListBox. For more information you can look at Q66370. This class implements a derived CListBox which automatically sets the horizontal extent. CListBoxEx.h // // CListBoxEx.h v1.1 // #ifndef _LISTBOX_EX_H #define _LISTBOX_EX_H #include class CListBoxEx : public CListBox { public: //virtual […]

Download Source Code and Example This article describes a custom a list box with columns. I will explain how the program works, but for a better understanding you should read the source code. This source is part of a big project that has to do with pizzas and that’s why it contains the pizza word […]

The CImageListBox class is derived from CListBox. I get inspiration from the CCheckListBox MFC class. The Image List Box shows a list of images. It is not possible to display text. To use the class just include the source and header file into your project. Add a List Box control to your dialog box resource. […]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have drive, dir and file-boxes, as in VisualBasic, in MFC. This project give you just that possibility. To use these list-boxes in your project include FileList.h and FileList.cpp in your project and add the following code: class CLBFileDlg : public CDialog { … public: // Dialog Data //{{AFX_VIRTUAL(CLBFileDlg) protected: … […]

Environment: VC++ 4.2 Since the arcticle Transparent Window by Franz Polzer helped me a lot, I would like to contribute a little tool that converts bitmaps to region-files suitable to use as a window-mask (SetWindowRgn). Why does anybody need this tool? its flexible; its possible to adjust the key-color its fast (not the tool, but […]

If we make a monochrome bitmap smaller by a simple pixel resampling the resulting image looks lousy (pic.2). The problem here is that we take a stand-alone pixel and disregard its surrounding. We can improve the picture a little bit by calculating the value of a pixel as the average of the pixels we disregard […]

. Having an Internet Mail look can be a bit hard to handle, but it could be quite rewarding . This MFC42 code shows you how to provide this look in your apps. . The trick is to create a splitter window using another’s handle. You can add any view you wish depending on the […]

In many cases, is usefull to have in one page of propery sheet more controls. But if the area of page is not enough, you have to insert some scroll bars into page. To make this simple you can do the followings: Creating one CFormView Generate a new dialog with Child style, which contains all […]

This is another registry class manipulation which uses exception handling. It basically uses the extended API provided for registry access (RegXXXXXEx) and I tried to simplify it as possible. Although right now there’s no function overidables for Read/Write to much simplify the passing of data (so you don’t have to typecast them to LPBYTE) but […]