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Resizing the tab control within the property sheet is the same as resizing any other window. The following code resizes the tab control increasing its width by 100 pixels. It should be noted that the controls within the property pages are not repositioned or resized by this operation. Reducing the width of the tab control […]

This is taken from a Doc/View-App that is mostly straight from the AppWizard of VC5. I recently got the Problem, that I had to insert Menuitem at a specific position _below_ a defined MenuItem. Unfortunaletly I found no easy way to enumerate all item in the menubar, so I had to do it myself. In […]

In the SDI app I am working on, I needed to be able to insert a new submenu in the apps main menu based on the currently selected object. (My app uses the nested splitter code found elsewhere on CodeGuru to provide multiple views into a selected sound on an advanced MIDI soundcard). I found […]

It is possible to make the TrackPopupMenu method of CMenu return the value of the item that was selected rather than having to process the menu commands through the message map. This is possible using the two flags TPM_NONOTIFY and TPM_RETURNCMD. As their names imply the first causes the menu not to send a command […]

This article was contributed by Mark E. Pennell. Introduction Popups, popups everywhere!  Have you noticed that we now live in an age of the endless collection of popup menus?  In practically every modern application, there exists several UI objects which have their own popup menus.  One must admit that these "context" menus have provided a […]

This code is an extension to Girish Bharadwaj’s Owner Drawn menu. The code he produced does not lack anything, but I thought it would be advantageous to the user to be able to load a Menu Resource in. Currently, you have to construct the menu yourself, item-by-item. This can be very time consuming. Instead, I […]

This is another way to draw a menu with bitmaps item. Basically, this thing was created to let the user see visually the correspondence of a menu item and a toolbar button, so that he can learn easily the meanings of sometime strange button drawing. Now, the Visual C++ give us that new nice toolbar […]

Download Source Code and Example 35K CFreeMenu:This class is a owner drawn menu, You will be able to: 1. Set the menu position 2. Set the menu background color 3. Set the menu bar’s edge color 4. Set the menu text color 5. Set the menu text font 6. Set the first level menu as […]

Download Source Code and Demo Features: Unlimited entries Displays 32X32 Icons with text Text wraps to multiple line Button pops up when the mouse is on the image Owner Drawn and easily customize the source! Can be used in SDI or MDI Usage Instructions: Open the project in which you want to add this feature. […]

The list view control supports four different view styles. The four styles are LVS_ICON , LVS_SMALLICON, LVS_LIST and LVS_REPORT. To switch between views we have to modify the window style using GetWindowLong() and SetWindowLong(). // Switch to report view ModifyStyle( LVS_TYPEMASK, LVS_REPORT); The LVS_TYPEMASK is a bit mask representing the bits for all the view […]

The list view control should be initialized in the OnInitDialog() function of the CDialog or in the OnInitialUpdate() function of the CFormView. A list view control can have up to three image lists associated with it: two of them for icons and the third for state images. Here are the steps involved Declare variables of […]

Unlike most other common controls, the header control does not use an image list. It does allow you to use a bitmap in any of the header item. You can display just the bitmap or the bitmap with the item label. You use the CHeaderCtrl::SetItem() function to assign a bitmap to a header item or […]