PJ Naughter's Freeware Library

Introduction

This is a collection of articles that provide freeware classes covering GUIs, networking, wrapper classes and general code snippets.

Copyright / Usage Details for my freeware source code

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

The Articles

Combo & List Boxes

IconComboBox

2 Freeware MFC icon selection combo box classes

C++ / MFC / STL

CHookWnd v1.02	A freeware MFC class to support MFC subclassing
CInt96 v1.04	A Freeware MFC class which provides 96 bit integers
CSingleInstance	An MFC class to implement single instance apps.

Date / Time handling

CCPUTicker v1.22

An ultra high precision MFC timing class for Pentium or greater CPUs.

Dialog and Windows Programming

CClockCtrl v1.01	A Freeware MFC class to display an analog clock
CIconDialog	A Freeware MFC dialog class to select an icon
CPushPinFrame v1.11	A Freeware MFC PushPin property page dialog class
DDXFile v1.11	A Freeware DDX routine for selecting a filename
Splasher v1.32	An improved splash screen component for MFC.

DLLs

HookImportFunctionByName v1.0

A class to hook any imported function call made by your app.

Edit Controls

DDXFolder & CChooseDirDlg v1.24

A Freeware DDX routine for selecting a Directory / Folder.

Internet & Network

CRasMonitor v1.41	A shareware application to monitor your Dial-Up Networking Connections.
CAnonymousPipe	A Freeware MFC class to encapsulate Anonymous Pipes
CCmc v1.0	An MFC class to encapsulate sending mail using CMC
CEQD v1.0	A Freeware MFC class to support retrieval of recent Earthquake data from the USGS
CFinger v1.01	An MFC class to encapsulate the Finger protocol
CFTPTransferDlg v1.0	A dialog implementation that performs a FTP file transfer
CHttpDownloadDlg v1.03	A dialog implementation that performs HTTP downloads
CNamedPipe v1.0	A Freeware MFC class to encapsulate Named Pipes
CPing v1.22	An MFC class to encapsulate the Ping utility
CPop3Connection v1.19	An MFC class to encapsulate the POP3 protocol
CServerMailslot & CClientMailslot	Freeware MFC wrapper classes for Win32 Mailslots
CSMTPConnection v1.36	An MFC class to encapsulate the SMTP protocol
CSNTPClient	A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the SNTP protocol
CTraceRoute v1.0	A freeware MFC class to implement traceroute functionality
IPEnum v1.01	An MFC class to allow enumeration of IP addresses
MfcCDDB v1.15	A freeware MFC class to support access to CDDB servers
PopWatch v1.01	A freeware application to monitor your POP3 mailbox
W3Mfc v1.11	A collection of freeware MFC classes to implement a simple Web server
CMapi v1.01	An MFC class to encapsulate sending mail using Simple MAPI.

Miscellaneous Controls

CMapPin	A Freeware MFC class to implement Map pins
CPushPinButton v1.13	A Freeware MFC PushPin button class.

Shell Programming

CShellLink & CUrlShellLink v1.1

2 Freeware MFC classes to encapsulate shell shortcuts.

System

CFile64	A freeware MFC class to encapsulate the Win32 64 bit file system API
CPdh v1.03	A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the NT Performance Counters.
CSerialPort v1.03	A freeware MFC class for Win32 serial ports
DtWinVer v1.34	A comprehensive OS detection utility
DynData v1.0	A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the Windows 95/98 performance counters
EnumSerialPorts v1.02	A freeware MFC function to enumerate serial ports
ShelExec v1.01	A freeware utility to call the ShellExecute API
CHKLM v1.1	A Freeware MFC class to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
CNTService v1.06	A class framework for developing NT services in MFC

Threads, Processes & Inter-Process Communication

PStat v1.2

A Freeware generalized framework for executing a lengthy operation in a thread.

Programming Tips

ResSwitch & ResList v1.2

2 freeware utilities to quickly change Screen Depth and Resolution.

Tree Controls

CTreeFileCtrl & CSortedArray v1.06	Implements a tree control similar to the left hand side of Windows Explorer
CTreeOptionsCtrl v1.21	A freeware MFC class to provide a tree options control.

Win32

CMemMapFile v1.41	A freeware MFC class to encapsulate Memory Mapped Files.
CPL++ v1.1	A freeware MFC class framework for developing Control Panel Applets.

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About PJ Naughter

I grew up in a small village called Ballygarrett in the south east corner of Ireland in a rural setting. I got my degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. Since my graduation in 1993, I have been working as a software developer in Leopardstown, Co. Dublin with Softech Telecom, who specialize in producing telecommunications costing software. I was involved in a number of their products including Ringmaster for Windows and Ringmaster 2000. Currently I am working on a product called "Ringmaster IMS" in the companies "New Products" Department.

Check out PJ's homepage at http://www.naughter.com/.