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  If you’ve come across the “locale” notion while reading on C++ you may feel somewhat unfulfilled. If you planned on using Bjarne Stroustrup’s “C++ Programming Language” book to clear your lantern, he brushes off the topic, stating the discussion “is beyond the scope of this book”. “C++ Primer” by Stanley Lippman and Josee Lajoie […]

Environment: ****** This package differ from other package from the point of view that it didn’t tells you what to do. Its doing it. You can use it exactly like other MFC doc template class. One of my biggest problems was to have multiple view using a Single document. To achieve that, I’ve create a […]

–> Expanding dialogs are useful if you want to present users with lots of options, but only if they select an appropriate option, or show results of a task only when the task has started. Expanding dialogs expand and contract according to states of controls, usually push buttons or check boxes. An example of an […]

With the XConstraint-class you will be able to attach every border of any element to a border of the parent dialog. This means, if you change the size of the dialog, the size or position (or both) of the attached elements will also change. Normaly, every Element inside a dialog-window was attached to the left, […]

–> In our application we needed several edit controls to accept only numbers. One might think to use the Number option on the resource editor, but unfortunately that did not allow us to enter the “-” minus sign. So we needed a different solution. We looked at CodeGuru to find a simple MaskEdit control. There […]

I always wanted to make application’s about box more graphical with images, animations and music. But it required lots of extra efforts and so I never ventured into that. Fortunately, with the advent of Internet Explorer 4.0 and the new technologies it has introduced I can do all these and a lots more without writing […]

Table of contents 1. What does this article cover? 2. What is the intended audience and what are the requirements ? 3. Simple video stream playback sample 4. The overlay paradigm 5. Making the overlay mix 5.1 Double-buffer technique 5.2 Triple-buffer technique 6. hWnd, DC, and the virtual system coordinates 7. Piece of code   […]

This article was contributed by Michael Brannan. Here is a little bit of code for adding text to your toolbars. In the sample there is a CToolBar derived class that overrides LoadToolBar(…) and adds the text to the toolbar according to the command id of the button. The text added in the example is the […]

One of the things I love about CodeGuru is that you can modify the examples to look just how you want them to, not how someone else wants them to. Recently I needed a control that would enable the user to to select just the month, and year, NOT the day. Shekar Naranan‘s Year and […]

Download Source Code LabelEdit and LabelComboBox are controls which looks like a CStatic, but when the user clicks on the control, an edit control or combobox appears which allows the user write (select) new value. Steps: In Resource Designer, put one or more custom controls. In the “Class” edit box in the “Properties” dialog for […]

Here is some sample code that will invoke the "Internet Options" control panel applet. This dialog is the same one that is available via IE’s View / Internet Options… menu selection. Using the ClassWizard, select the "Add Class…" button. Select "From a type library…". Browse to the systems 32 directory and select SHDocVw.dll. Select the […]

–> Many times my applications required audio volume manipulation. To make the volume-enabled application development easier I decided to create a few C++ classes that would allow me to easily regulate and track the changes of such volume controls as Output Master Volume, WaveOut Volume and Input (WaveIn) Volume. Here I provide such classes that […]