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. If you are interested in more articles written by Kirk Stowell, you can click here to visit his home page. There are several articles about docking toolbars, however, I felt that this was important enough to mention here. The same information can be found at Microsofts MSDN site, here it is in a nutshell: […]

. If you are interested in more articles written by Kirk Stowell, you can click here to visit his home page. If you wanted to add hot toolbar buttons like the ones seen in internet explorer, it is pretty straight forward. This approach for will work for both Visual C++ 5 and 6, however you […]

. If you are interested in more articles written by Kirk Stowell, you can click here to visit his home page. If you wanted to add a drop menu like the ones seen in internet explorer, it is pretty straight forward. This approach for will work for both Visual C++ 5 and 6, however you […]

Here is a set of  two ActiveX Control for enriching your User Interface. XFloorWnd Control XPropertiesWnd Control XFloorWnd ActiveX Control. What is XFloorWnd? If somebody hs seen Microsoft Outlook, there is a control on the left side of MDI that looks like the XFloorWnd control. You will see some diferences at animation time. Description of […]

Floor Window Control or XFloorWnd is an ActiveX Control similar to the Outlookbar in Microsoft Outlook but with more features.   The control has one or more pages and Each page has name, height, color, a window attached, and a user data associated. At one moment only one page can be activate. XFloorWnd Control offers […]

I kept running into situations where, during debugging, I needed to view the contents of long strings. None of the features available in VC++ were satisfactory. The onscreen, expression, hover feature only displays one screen-width line of the variable’s contents. Also, even though an AfxMessageBox() can display thousands of characters, it doesn’t have scroll bars […]

The ActiveX control demonstarted in this article – NCombo Control (see figure) looks like a combobox control, and has more features such as: allows more than one column into control (multicolumn); each column has an edit control associated. The goal of edit is the same as the standard combobox: searching, selecting. Each edit associated has […]

I was really happy to see thoses class for smtp’s transactions. One thing I didn’t have in my own smtp object was the file transfert with MIME specifications. The only thing the Wes Clyburn’s class missed is the use of CC ad BCC. Since it’s more easy to add those things than adding the file […]

A free, primarily template based library, the COM STL Bridge (CSB) is available for immediate download from: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ray_brown. A sample is included that demonstrates how to combine the power of COM and C++’s STL to sort a collection with a single line of code, across different machines if desired. If you’ve ever looked for a […]

–> In Window95 a screen saver can be previewed in display property dialog . How can the application knows whether it runs in full screen mode or in the preview mode . If the the first parameter is ‘c’ you need to run config . if it is ‘p’ you need to create a preview […]

Following is a code that gets local machine IP addresses. The advantages over the article by Jeff Lundgren are that my code recognises ALL IP addresses and is ready for IPv6 😉 char szHostName[128]; if( gethostname(szHostName, 128) == 0 ) { // Get host adresses struct hostent * pHost; int i; pHost = gethostbyname(szHostName); for( […]

One of the largest problems I have encountered using OpenGL is that it is very difficult to print a rendered scene. I have only found one other sample on how to do this, however, there was no sample code and I was unable to actually print (let alone print preview a scene!). What I have […]