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There has been much talk of late of making dockable views that have the features of the DevStudio workspace. Most of the code that I have seen to date revolves around turning a view into a docking window. They also don’t mention how to put a grip bar at the top of these windows. There […]

This article improves on the code submitted by Umut Alev, Auto-Panning Windows. This article also uses some code submitted by Lutz Kretzschmar, Intellimouse panning. This article integrates some code submitted by Russel Freeman, Auto-Panning Windows 2. How it looks like Improvements made to original version Modified behavior and look to match IE4. Added continous subpixel […]

This code sniplet will cause your program to open the last saved file when it is reopened. If the last saved file still exists that is. This code differs from the other open recent file code examples because it shows an alternate method of obtaining the last MRU. We also take into account if the […]

 Download Source Code – 5KB HOW TO USE: These classes provide HTML Help in a CView Window. In Order to use these clases, add HTMLHelpView and HTMLHelpViewDoc to your project. You Should also define a template for the view, e.g.: m_pHTMLHelpTemplate = new CPNMMultiDocTemplate(IDR_PNMNETWORKVIEW, RUNTIME_CLASS(CHTMLHelpViewDoc), RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), RUNTIME_CLASS(CHTMLHelpView)); AddDocTemplate(m_pHTMLHelpTemplate); And Call the view, like so… void […]

Download demo 141K 1. Using this dialog This is a simple demo for a “wizard-like” dialog; it shows how you can handle child dialogs. It’s use is simple. Here are the steps you need: create the dialog pages for the wizard controls using dialogs without title, border, system menu, with the “visible” flag turn off […]

Here’s a little trick I use to get tooltips into a dialog quickly. I usually put this code into the OnInitDialog. It allows me to easily add tooltips to any dialog quickly. Add a member to the CDialog or CWnd derived class in the header like: CToolTipCtrl CTTDialog :: m_ToolTip; In the OnInitDialog or OnInitialUpdate, […]

By default, MFC only allows you to add Toolbars and Statusbars on CFrameWnd subclassed objects. This is great, but if you want to add toolbars on dialogs, you’re like an idiot, because you can’t do this easily. The first problem is that every handler function expect the parent to be a CFrameWnd subclassed object, and […]

If the user passes the mouse over a button, extra help text for that button should appear in the status bar. To use status bar to display extra help for dialog controls is preaty easy. Every time the mouse passes over a window, the WM_SETCURSOR message is sent to the window’s owner. If we catch […]

Download Source Code and Example New VC++ look Tip of the day Standard Component Gallery Tip of the Day dialog Microsoft supplies a standard Component Gallery item called Tip of the day. IMHO this dialog is quite ugly, so I wrote another one which reproduces the look of the VC++ 4.0 Tip of the Day […]

Download Example Project Had this problem before. I guess there are some more interested in a solution. It seems CSplitterWnd is designed to be used in document/view-based applications only. But by overriding some virtual methods in a derived class, you can make splitter windows based on CSplitterWnd be used in dialog based application, ActiveX-Controls using […]

The Developer Studio in Visual C++ has a Splash Screen component that you can insert using the Component Galery. Unfortunately, this component supports only 16 colors. I have yet to see a commercial application that uses a 16 color splash screen. There might be a few software using a 16 color splash screen but I […]

Download Example Project – (142 kb) Follow these steps to add a splash screen to your dialog based application: Copy the Splash.cpp and Splash.h files from this example project to your project. Add the following code to your applications InitInstance() method in the CWinApp derived class: #include “Splash.h” BOOL CDialogsplApp::InitInstance() { // CG: The following […]