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Download Source Code and Example Purpose: Shows a splash screen with extra features: Enables dynamic writing of text on the splash-screen Enables dynamic displaying bitmaps transparently on the splash-screen All text-effects (text, sizes, fonts, positions) can be changed within a timer-procedure This allows you to create “animated” splash-screens Uses a second thread, useful especially for […]

Introduction: Q: What is the difference between the following two dialogs ?   A: There is no difference ! The cdxCSizingDialog class is a class derived from CDialog making it very easy to implement sizable dialogs. I really missed that feature in VC++ (and IMHO it’s a shame to the MFC that it doesn’t provide […]

. A quick & dirty method of converting simple modeless dialogs into modal dialogs at run time Ever wanted a simple modeless dialog to act like a modal dialog? Well, override the following in your application and block the commands. After the modeless dialog has been displayed, set the flag so that all commands from […]

This is how you create a dialog that can be dragged by clicking anywhere on it, ie. not just the caption bar. void CNCHitDlg::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) { CDialog::OnLButtonDown(nFlags, point); // fake windows into thinking your clicking on the caption, does not // maximize on double click PostMessage( WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION, MAKELPARAM( point.x, point.y)); } or […]

Here is how the dialog looks like: How to include in your project Copy BmpDlg.cpp and BmpDlg.h into your project directory. Copy BmpDlg.rc into your res directory Add this line to your project’s rc2 file: #include “BmpDlg.rc” Add BmpDlg.cpp to your project. How to use The dialog is used just as a regular FileOpen dialog. […]

Download Source Code and Example The CFolderDialog class is derived from CFileDialog. The major difference between the two classes is that while the CFileDialog class displays both folders and files, the CFolderDialog class can be used in situations where the application only wants to display folders. Below is a code snippet showing how easy it […]

Download Source Code and Example The Directory Picker dialog box lets the user specify directory to select. This module creates and displays a dialog box. This dialog box was developed by customizing Windows 3.1 Open dialog box. It can be used in any of the windows platforms. To integrate with any code: Include the header […]

Download Source Code and Example Very often, if you write Internet applications, you need to verify IP address user entered and make sure that it’s correct. So lets see how we can do that without a lot of troubles. First of all we need to add declarations of the following function to header file of […]

As you all know, the CDialogBar control, is the MFC control that lets the programmer add any control he wants, into a dockable window via a dialog template. This class is very much like the CDialog class iteself; however, there are two major differences between the classes. CDialogBar does not have an OnInitDialog function where […]

Here is a function I use to parse phone fields. I’ve tested this on Windows 95/NT with Visual C++ 5.0 SP1/2. This works by changing the value to a formatted phone number. I’m sure there could be some code improvements here, and would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have. //Definition void AFXAPI DDX_Phone(CDataExchange* pDX, int […]

This article was contributed by Mark Findlay. The credits dialog is a neat way to display a scrolling credits window like you see in the movies or in some of the Microsoft product credits that popup when you hit a hidden key sequence. This dialog displays text in user defined colors and fonts and also […]

This is an implementation of my class and the dialog template. The motivation for doing that: Our program stores font info in the drawing. It may happen that I save the picture on one machine, take it to the other one, edit it there and take it back to the first one. Now suppose the […]