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Download source files and Sample project (287 Kb). This is a menu/toolbar/dockbar combination which is as close to the VC5/Office style as I could get. This code consists of 9 classes: CNGenericDockBar The standard CDockBar overlaps the toolbars by a couple of pixels, which is undesirable if you want a ‘3d’ look as we do. […]

When a toolbar floats, the MFC framework normally supplies a window menu (formerly known as system menu) to the toolbar. The toolbar can be floated by a double click or by dragging it to the center of the screen. This code demonstrates how to do it. Note: I could not get the mini frame window […]

Allows user-customization (inserting, removing, reordering toolbar buttons) of the toolbar. Also remembers last position of the toolbar upon application exit. While monitoring the MFC newsgroup, a friend and I noticed quite a few questions on customizable toolbars, so we went off and created a generic application supporting customizable toolbars.  Unfortunately, I’ve just noticed that when […]

By default MFC uses string resources with the same ID as the toolbar buttons for status messages and tooltip text. Sometimes you might want to change some of these messages or texts in runtime. This requires a little work. The following explanations are written for MDI. The easiest first; custom statusbar messages: For this you […]

The article ‘Remove system menu from floating toolbar’ by Sushil Saxena shows one way of removing the close button from a toolbar. However, it is not the neatest of solutions to the problem. This is my solution: It does rely on a little dodge to get a runtime class for an internal MFC class, but […]

Download Source Code and Example There are several win32 functions that require the use of a string with embedded NULLs and are terminated with an extra NULL (i will call them DZ strings for short). An example of such a DZ string: “part1part2part3”. To name just a few of functions that work with DZ strings: […]

–> When designing complex dialog boxes, one uses a property sheet whose functionality is encapsulated by MFC class CPropertySheet. However, there are several cases where alternative approach (dialog box similar to Netscape 4.x Preferences dialog box) is more flexible and user friendly. When there are a lot of property pages in which case it is […]

–> This is another simple way of converting a modeless dialog into a modal dialog. While overriding the dialog’s Create() call, get the pointer to the main frame window and disable it using EnableWindow() call. BOOL CModelessDlg::Create( UINT nID, CWnd* pParentWnd ) { // TODO: Add your specialized code here and/or call the base class […]

–> Many people have asked for a dialog that can be used as an MDI child window. So here it is! I hope this will make some people happy 🙂 Usage: 1.) Derive a dialog class from CMDIDialog 2.) Create a pointer to an object of the derived class: e.g., CMyMDIDialog* pDlg = new CMyMDIDialog(IDD_MYDIALOG); […]

–> This code makes use of some code from Zafir Anjum, specifically the code to load a background image. Ok. Every window has a Region. This is how Windows knows what area of the screen to draw on when something changes in your program. Normally a windows Region is square, but you can make one […]

This article was contributed by chensu. Have you seen an installation program that has a gradient color background? Yes, you have. How do you paint such a background? First, you need to create a gradient color palette (CGradpalWnd::CreateGradPalette()). Then, you can paint the background with the colors in the palette (CGradpalWnd::PaintGradiantRect()). This program allows you […]

 Download Demo Project and Source (37k) or Download Source Only (4k) Updated : 12th August 1998 The original source for this code came from Sam Claret’s article A Masked Edit Control. CTimeEdit The class that I was originally interested in was his CTimeEdit that allowed the editing of hours and minutes in an edit control. […]