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Environment: VC5.0 SP3, VC6.0, Win95, NT4 If you have ever used WinDiff you will be aware of how poor the user interface for specifying the files or directories is. To this end I developed a simple application that acts as a front end to WinDiff and allows you to drag and drop files or directories, […]

The MFC CString class, has some really nice string manipulation routines. However, if you are trying to avoid the MFC for size/deployment issues, and having to do string manipulation of BSTRs I’m sure that you will be finding the _bstr_t class frustratingly basic. After doing a great deal of frustrated hair-pulling I finally got around […]

Some features of CTsyslistviewex, class derived from CListCtrl: sort multicolumn (See: EnableSort, SortAllItems) set functions (call back) for sort order. (see AddSortCallBack) draw or not draw grid lines. (See ViewGridLines) attach to one or more columns of resource bitmaps. (See AttachBitmap) attach to one or more cells of resource bitmaps.(See AttachBitmapCell) when user select one […]

This article was contributed by Norm Almond of Paramax Technology Limited I came accross a fancy font selection box the other day. It was so cool I thought I’d copy the idea. Its basically an imitation of the font selection box found in MS Word, it has an MRU font list and the other cool […]

Following is a owner drawn Combo Box which will be filled with the names of the fonts.. And each entry is in same font as selected. This is something similar to the one in Netscape 4.x font selector. This is pretty simple. All it does is to enumerate the fonts and store the LOGFONTs in […]

I recently wanted to allow certain color selection in one of my projects. The common control available is a great thing but I wanted the look-and-feel of something similar to what VC++ offers in its options dialog box. The following code acomplishes exactly that. Just include the ComboColorPicker.h and ComboColorPicker.cpp files in your project and […]

. (Based On Earlier Code That Was By Baldvin Hansson.) This class, CColorPickerCB, implements a Combobox that displays colors, as well as the name of the colors. Colors may be added or removed at runtime, and the control can be queried for the COLORREF value, or the name of the selected color. You can also […]

This class, CColorComboEx, is a combobox that instead of displaying strings, displays the standard colors much like the one in Developer Studio. It also has support for the “Automatic” color option. To add a color combobox to your project, first add the ColorComboEx.h and ColorComboEx.cpp files into your project. Next, in the resource editor, add […]

I am a Korean and not a native english speacker. Please, forgive my poor english. I was very happy after finding Alger Pike’s article, which is “A CDialogBar with OnInitDialog() and DDX Support”. I wanted to make floating dialog bar but MFC did not support for class wizard for dialog bar. To worse, MFC did […]

This class is a “spin off” of the CGTetris application.   There is only one public method: BOOL SetBitmap(UINT uResource, int Type = CBitmapDialog::BITMAP_TILE); Type might be one of the following types: CBitmapDialog::BITMAP_TILE       // tile the bitmap to fill the dialog CBitmapDialog::BITMAP_STRETCH    // stretch the bitmap so it will fit to the dialog CBitmapDialog::BITMAP_CENTER     // […]

Download the source This took about 20 minutes to create. I saw Kirk Stowell’s CFlatComboBox class and decided it needed a similar Edit control I actually made the code look similar to Kirks to keep things simple if you need to edit the code in both classes for your purpose Pretty neat looking edit control […]

Download the source I wanted to display “tool tips” for non-control items, such as edit boxes, static text displays, etc. Unfortunately the VC/MFC CToolTipCtrl class didn’t do what I wanted, although it came part of the way. I searched around on the Web, and when I installed VC6 I finally found most of the solution. […]