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DirectSound Mixer or DSMixer helps you create many DirectSound PCM wave secondary buffers and play them together. This sample is based on the CodeGuru StackUp game sample by Tool@theWaterCooler.com The main part of this sample is the CDSBuffer class which wraps the DirectSoundBuffer Object. New buffers can be created by supplying the (wave) file name […]

Introduction: This simple class is for people who want to make their dialog based application more attractive, using icon animation in the title bar. Technique: All the consecutive images used for animation are stored in a single bitmap resource. The animation could have been achieved also by storing each image as separate icon in the […]

Environment: VC6.0 SP1, Win95, NT4 SP4 Working with a team of programmers in different time zones can be fun, but it can also cause major problems when files from different time zones get mixed and matched. The latest update to a new version of a file may have a date earlier than someone elses old […]

While writing a dev notes Visual Studio plug in, I wanted the rich edit control in a dialog to understand URL’s so developers could add links to sites and email addresses.   After talking to "Long John", he led me to the easy way of doing it, and now I am posting the work for […]

We should be able to use the MRU list in a submenu just by moving the menu item with the id ID_FILE_MRU_FILE1 from the “File” menu to the submenu we wanted. However, a bug in the CWinApp class causes that if the MRU first item is the first item in the submenu, the MRU list […]

There are three main things that this CFolderComboBox class does. First, the class displays text with bitmap images in a hierarchical display. Second, the class gets all of the drives on a system using _chdrive to determine if a drive is present. Finally, the CFolderComboBox returns the relative path of a selected folder or drive. […]

Rule 1: Always regularly test both the Debug and Release mode versions of your applications. Are you absolutely certain your program is working in Debug mode? I recently aided in sorting out what appeared to be a Debug -Vs- Release mode problem that turned out to be something else. So, make sure that the debug […]

This is one of those simple little utilities that should not be necessary. As much as the Microsoft VC resource editor does, you would think they could have included this functionality. Anyone who has ever worked with SDI or MDI applications knows what a paint creating or editing the document template strings is. When you […]

I wanted an editbox that can be used in chatting. Every chat message was inserted after the last message, user name and message is distincted with another color and message has to have readonly attribute. After all, If the message is full of the edit box, the view is autoscrolled upward. To Use the CDalsuRichEdit… […]

One problem that has frustrated me is the difficulty of building a large object on the SQL/MTS server and then using DCOM to deliver all that stuff to the client. The objective was to submit a query to the server which would then process through the database , build a complex object, that is an […]

Sometimes the way a document is being visualized needs to be significantly changed. For example, in PowerPoint, you can see the slides in a WYSIWYG form or view only the text in a text edit window. In the MFC world, one can find an amazingly large quantity of programs that implement this behavior defining one […]

–> Why we need it. Windows list is a part of standard MDI windows interface. There are some bug(s) admitted by Microsoft. See MS KB article Q125435 for example. It is (almost) impossible to modify it. It is much easier to reproduce Windows menu behavior. This project can serve as a start point for window […]