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The MFC CFontDialog class encapulates the standard Font common dialog box. This dialog allows you to select a font. It display a sample window showing some text in the required font. It is nice to be able to specify your own sample text – for example, if I am editing a text object in a […]

The Demo The following code will make the file-open dialog 150 pixels higher, than it use to be. This is a very simple example of the things that can be done, to make the common dialogs smarter and more useable. What To Consider Eventhough it has become easier to costumize the common dialogs with MFC, […]

Before I tell you how to change the default behaviour, lets understand how MFC displays the file open and file save dialogs. When you select the menu File Open, the command message is routed to CWinApp::OnFileOpen, which calls CDocManager::OnFileOpen through its member m_pDocManager (a pointer to a CDocManager object). This last function calls the CDocManager […]

The MFC CColorDialog class encapulates the standard Color common dialog box. This dialog allows you to select a standard color, pick from a list of custom colors, or expand the dialog to create a color. However, although you can define a custom color, the MFC implmentation does not save your custom colors for later use. […]

. CShellTree Version 1.02 (any previous unversioned copies are older/inferior). Please see http://chat.carleton.ca/~sofori for updates and method descriptions. Thanks to everybody who reported/fixed some of the bugs and to those who requested features. Created with MSVC 5, tested under Win95 OSR2 and WinNT 4 Anybody who is interested in having a ShellFolder tree directly in […]

from Israel. This article has some information about COMCTL32.DLL and Unimodem/V TAPI drivers in specific and code to determine the version of any DLL through your MFC application. COMCTL32.DLL versions This DLL is responsible for all the controls Windows uses. Windows 95 was first shipped with version 4.00 of this DLL. Internet explorer 3.x upgrades […]

It seems to be quite easy to export dialogs from mfc-extension dll’s. Just export the corresponding class with AFX_EXT_CLASS and your done. If you do so with an application and a dll you create from scratch you probably even will succeed. But if you insert more and more resources in both the application and the […]

If you create an extension DLL you can most conveniently export one or more of its classes using AFX_EXT_CLASS. However if you create a second extension DLL and try to use classes from the first you will run into a small problem. The value of AFX_EXT_CLASS will cause your new DLL to try and export […]

This is code which a lot of people on the WinDev list keep requesting from me. It resequences the define’s in a resource.h file. I use it primarily for DLL’s when I don’t want the resource id’s to overlap with id’s used in other DLL’s or in the main program. The program simply renumbers all […]

Here’s a handy Developer Studio macro that I wrote to export a makefile from a Visual C++ V5.0 project (.DSP) file. We had a bunch of batch files that we use to build a software project; these broke when V5.0 moved from the .MAK file to the .DSP file. This macro writes a .MAK file […]

This is three very simple macros, which implement a secondary clipboard. While not everyone would use it, I have found to be quite useful. Example: I use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+X for the Windows clipboard, and map these macros in as Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V and Ctrl+Shift+X. ‘ Three simple macros to implement a secondary clipboard ‘ […]

To often I have found my self in a situation where i needed to save or open a file through the standard common dialogs. The MFC implementation of the common dialog is quite elegant, but it involves alot of parameters, which are often hard to remember. This macro will take you through a few steps, […]