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This base dialog class (CBaseDialog) handles: 1) Modal dialog 2) Modeless dialog 3) Custom Background color 4) ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI available for dialog controls (I used Tim McColl’s method). How to use CBaseDialog class in your project? To construct a modeless dialog: Let’s say CMyDialog is derived from CBaseDialog, and m_pDlg is declared as a CDialog* in […]

–> Sometimes it is useful to know if the computer running your software has the one or other version of the Internet Explorer installed. I needed this routine when writing my own setup program for a piece of work which used the Active X Webbrowser control and required IE 3.02 or upper. I am able […]

–> This is how to use 256(or 16bit, 24bit)-color bitmaps in ImageLists for ListViews, TreeViews, etc… Usually you use something like this to load/create your imagelist: hScreens = ImageList_LoadImage(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(BMP_SCREENS), 100, CLR_NONE, CLR_NONE, IMAGE_BITMAP, LR_LOADTRANSPARENT); However it will always convert your bitmap to 16 colors or fail. now, simply replace it with this code: HBITMAP […]

–> Cabinet files are multivolume compressed archives To view what’s in a cabinet file, you can install a cabinet viewer utility from PowerToys. And also, the latest WinZip 7 Beta can view cabinet files. If you ever wondered how to create those compressed cabinet (.cab) files that lots of setup kits use to pack files? […]

Many developers like myself need to use both VC5 and VC6. This is not possible using a standard installation, given that the names of the MFC Debug DLLs are the same in both versions. I have seen several suggestions for how to do this. The Microsoft recommended solution is to use two different installations of […]

Although the MFC splitter window class CSplitterWnd is a neat feature of MFC and splitter windows in general are a great user interface gadget to show different aspects of a document, I really do not use them very often in the applications that I use in my everyday work. Instead I often end up using […]

Environment: NT 4.0 SP3, VC5 If you are used to the “Copy Key Name” feature of the Registry Editor, then you might have thought why such a feature is not there in the Explorer. This is a small program that gives you exactly that. It can be used as a “shell right mouse menu command” […]

Download Source Code and Example The Problem COM objects can be used to make an application easy to extend. Part of this extensibility comes from being able to write many COM objects that all conform to an interface. The application uses the interface and doesn’t care who implements it. The user should be able to […]

Description: Both CEditEx and CStaticEx allow for easy customization of text, background, and font attributes. Using these classes: See example code provided. Attributes:     1. COLORREF bkColor( COLORREF crColor )        COLORREF bkColor() const     2. COLORREF textColor( COLORREF crColor )        COLORREF textColor() const     3. (CEdit Only) void setCustomMask( CEditMask* editMask = 0 […]

ID //without ‘_’ like IDBROWSE new number start with 8 IDR_MAINFRAME, //start with 101 IDR_ IDB_ IDI_ IDD_ IDM_ IDS_ //start on next hundred IDP_ IDC_ //start with 1001 or next thousand ID_ //start with 32771 IDW_ //not numbered, written out in hexa Take care if you use ON_COMMAND_RANGE to name correctly your IDs like […]

This was the first wizard I ever wrote, basicly it generates an MFC Tray Application, that being a program that sits in the little window down by the clock on windows 95/NT. Its important to note that portions of the generated code in this appwizard are written by and used with permision by CodeGuru Chris […]

I wrote this wizard, not so much because NT Services are hard to write, but simply because they can be hard to debug if something is slightly wrong, so I figured I’d get the code right, and then automate it. Instruction This NT Service wizard is pretty simple to use, you only have to privide: […]