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The HexEdit control is a plain hex editor wrapped in a CEdit derived class called CHexEdit. Where ever you use a CEdit class you can replace it with the CHexEdit class. CHexEdit supports the following features: Addressdisplay can be short or long or turned off. Hexdisplay can have any width between 1 and 256 bytes […]

. Download Source In my latest project, File Axe, I decided I wanted something very like the little arrow buttons that one can find in DevStudio’s Tools|Customize… property sheet, Tools tab. The little button on the right of the edit control for “Arguments:” to be precise. So, after a quick browse on codeguru reveled nothing, […]

This is a simple macro that emulates a mouse double-click. It selects the word under the caret – very useful for keyboard jockeys like Brian. Sub WordSelect() ‘DESCRIPTION: Selects a word like a double click with mouse ‘Very handy for keyboard users. Not the prettiest ‘or quickest (I heard BASIC was slow! :] ) ‘macro […]

This was tricky i spent week and a half on this but I solved it by studying the messages that a combobox gives off. I want to thank joerg for helping me get the combobox on the toolbar this class was written to take advantage of th CToolBarEx as a base class that Joerg had […]

It is very easy (once you see how it is done) to place combo-boxes, edit boxes, progress controls, etc. into toolbars. Below are two examples of this, in the first a ComboBox is placed on a toolbar, and in the second a cluster of checkboxes is added. In both cases the technique is the same: […]

Download Source Code and Example  66KB I tried Kevin Bentley’s trick to use 256 colours but it didn’t work. I needed to have more than 256 colours – so I tried to find some alternative way – fortunately I found it. Here’s how can you use hi-color bitmaps on your toolbars: At first, create your […]

It is relatively easy to place a toolbar in a dialog box, but I had a hard time making the tooltips appear since none of the TTN_xxxx message handlers are present in a CDialog derived class. This article describes a simple technique for getting tooltips when you have a toolbar in a dialog. It also […]

This package differ from other package from the point of view that it support small or large icon. Text or no text and 16 or 256 colors. You can use icon or bitmap to create the toolbar. It is using the explorer toolbar, so you need at least explorer 3. It’s easy and nice to […]

This tip was contributed by Kevin Bentley. He has tried this on a 256 color display as well. I recently needed to have 256 color toolbars in my app. If you create 256 color bitmaps in devstudio, and try to use them with CToolbar it won’t work. The problem is in the LoadBitmap() member or […]

For those of you, who have already read this article: The major enhancements start here. Changes for Revision 2. Download section I’m looking for someone who has enough time to help me ! Some time ago, I saw Roger Onslow’s flat toolbar implementation. The fact, that I need a special product (MSIE) (or even DLL […]

  Download Source Code and Example 200KB This article is based on Visual Studio/Office 97 style Flat Toolbar and Dockable Menu bar from Tony Hoyle . Like many people, I wanted to give to my applications the fancy look from Visual Studio/Office 97. As a frequent visitor of CodeGuru, I saw and tried the miscellanous […]

  Download Source Code and Example 72KB In Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft made some cool looking menu. When I use Spy ++ it shows that this is just toolbar inside rebar. I made some searches but I didn’t found anything like that on codeguru sites. So I made it myself. I used Luis Barreira Classes […]