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Button Controls

Getting BN_DOUBLECLICK to work for buttons
Posted: 25 Jun 2002   Updated: 25 Jun 2002   Views: 70,475   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.38
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 38   Downloaded: 0
BN_DOUBLECLICKED doesn't get received

Clipboard

Getting a CF_DIB or CF_METAFILEPICT from the clipboard and displaying it
Posted: 11 Dec 2002   Updated: 11 Dec 2002   Views: 72,857   Rating: 4.07/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.68
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 42   Downloaded: 0
Example code to display a CF_DIB or CF_METAFILEPICT from the clipboard

Document / View

Using a Doc/View exported from a dynamically loaded DLL
Posted: 15 Nov 2001   Updated: 15 Nov 2001   Views: 83,359   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 5.29
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 71   Downloaded: 5,252
An article on on how to load DLLs which export doc/views.
MFC Document/View documentation and enhancements
Posted: 15 Oct 2003   Updated: 15 Oct 2003   Views: 123,413   Rating: 4.79/5    Votes: 45   Popularity: 7.91
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 136   Downloaded: 1
An extension to the MSDN documentation and a list of tips and tricks you can do with the MFC Doc/View architecture to enhance your applications.

Menus

An examination of menus from a beginner's point of view
Posted: 22 Jun 2004   Updated: 22 Jun 2004   Views: 204,177   Rating: 4.91/5    Votes: 60   Popularity: 8.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 136   Downloaded: 2,191
A discussion of the OS menu object from a beginner's viewpoint. I take you through the basics to a more advanced understanding of menus and how to interact with them from code.
Owner drawn menus in two lines of code
Posted: 2 Nov 2004   Updated: 3 Feb 2005   Views: 117,634   Rating: 4.76/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 6.74
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 75   Downloaded: 2,707
Another method of implementing owner drawn menus, which only requires two lines of code by you the coder.

Miscellaneous

Scrollbars, using the WS_HSCROLL and WS_VSCROLL styles
Posted: 15 May 2002   Updated: 13 Jun 2002   Views: 135,818   Rating: 4.58/5    Votes: 20   Popularity: 5.95
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 35   Downloaded: 2,698
How to use a CWnd's default scrollbars and to setup the thumb size correctly
An MFC ActiveX control to display trays
Posted: 15 Nov 2001   Updated: 15 Nov 2001   Views: 68,943   Rating: 4.13/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.88
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 15   Downloaded: 1,004
An MFC ActiveX control to display trays and samples, with selection and cherry picking properties

Printing

Setting the default printer programmatically in an MFC application
Posted: 2 May 2002   Updated: 11 Jun 2002   Views: 168,115   Rating: 4.78/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.69
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 43   Downloaded: 2,578
How to change the default printer in MFC and save/restore this setting too/from the registry
Example of how to print a long CString across multiple pages of output using the MFC print architecture
Posted: 19 Jun 2002   Updated: 19 Jun 2002   Views: 95,273   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 4.58
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 23   Downloaded: 1,789
An example project of how to break up a long string that you want to print across multiple pages
An easy way to customise the default Print dialog in an MFC app
Posted: 16 Jul 2002   Updated: 16 Jul 2002   Views: 150,737   Rating: 4.63/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.30
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 41   Downloaded: 1,384
A quick and easy way to customise the CPrintDialog object in an MFC application
Printing tips and tricks from the trenches
Posted: 20 Jun 2002   Updated: 25 Jul 2002   Views: 201,133   Rating: 4.70/5    Votes: 41   Popularity: 7.57
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 100   Downloaded: 0
A selection of printing tips and tricks that can help make printing in an MFC application easier
How to print the content of a Rich Edit Control
Posted: 26 Dec 2002   Updated: 26 Dec 2002   Views: 122,908   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 4.86
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 37   Downloaded: 1,822
Rich Edit controls are great until you want to print the output. Help is at hand
MultiPage PrintPreview enhancements for MFC Doc/View applications
Posted: 23 Apr 2002   Updated: 27 Apr 2002   Views: 121,367   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.72
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 30   Downloaded: 4,186
How to improve the standard MFC print preview options to allow preview of from 1 to 9 pages at a time
MFC Print preview extension DLL for dialogs
Posted: 4 Dec 2002   Updated: 26 Dec 2002   Views: 161,129   Rating: 4.66/5    Votes: 25   Popularity: 6.62
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 45   Downloaded: 5,849
An MFC extension library, so your dialogs can have easy print/print preview support.
Using CRgn with print preview
Posted: 3 Nov 2003   Updated: 3 Nov 2003   Views: 50,700   Rating: 4.94/5    Votes: 12   Popularity: 5.33
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 19   Downloaded: 0
CRgn objects need translating, to work correctly in print preview.
Solution to the preview problem while playing a metafile in a CPreviewDC
Posted: 26 Jan 2005   Updated: 26 Jan 2005   Views: 23,243   Rating: 2.14/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 1.29
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 12   Downloaded: 0
Playing a Metfile into a CPreviewDC in print preview can cause further drawing operations to not work correctly.

Tabs & Property Pages

Enabling context help in a PropertySheet embedded in another PropertySheet
Posted: 14 Jun 2005   Updated: 14 Jun 2005   Views: 29,848   Rating: 4.31/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.61
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 13   Downloaded: 0
Context sensitive help does not work for a PropertySheet embedded within the page of another PropertySheet.

Tree Controls

Code to allow you to print the content of a CTreeCtrl
Posted: 4 Mar 2003   Updated: 16 Mar 2003   Views: 104,294   Rating: 4.06/5    Votes: 13   Popularity: 4.52
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 24   Downloaded: 2,207
A base class that provides all the functions you need to print a CTreeCtrl

Libraries

MFC extension library - A plugin to handle owner drawn menus
Posted: 11 May 2004   Updated: 11 May 2004   Views: 51,993   Rating: 4.41/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.73
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 44   Downloaded: 1,272
Continuation of the Plugin Architecture series
MFC Extension library : Enhanced print preview plug-in
Posted: 24 May 2004   Updated: 24 May 2004   Views: 46,859   Rating: 4.60/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 3.89
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 44   Downloaded: 1,317
MFC Extension library : Enhanced print preview plug-in
MFC extension library : Single instance Plug-In
Posted: 8 Jun 2004   Updated: 8 Jun 2004   Views: 37,038   Rating: 4.66/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.62
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 33   Downloaded: 760
Single instance Plug-In
An MFC extension library to enable DLL plug-in technology for your application using MESSAGE_MAPs
Posted: 2 Oct 2002   Updated: 8 Jun 2004   Views: 249,177   Rating: 4.84/5    Votes: 53   Popularity: 8.34
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 225   Downloaded: 6,917
A plug-in architecture which allows you to write plug-in DLLs for your application and extend/modify its functionality.

Algorithms & Recipes

A matrix class with serialization and advanced input/output functions
Posted: 26 Jun 2002   Updated: 12 Aug 2002   Views: 230,688   Rating: 4.54/5    Votes: 26   Popularity: 6.42
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 60   Downloaded: 3,090
A Matrix class derived from CObject with serialization and operator overloading

WinHelp / HTMLHelp

How to enable context sensitive help for individual controls on a FormView
Posted: 17 Jul 2002   Updated: 25 Oct 2002   Views: 95,248   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.84
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 28   Downloaded: 855
Context sensitive help does not distinguish individual controls on a FormView. This sorts that problem
Simplified MFC helpfiles AfxCore.rtf and AfxPrint.rtf
Posted: 12 Mar 2002   Updated: 12 Mar 2002   Views: 44,623   Rating: 3.86/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.32
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 12   Downloaded: 507
Repleacement AfxCore and AfxPrint RTF files for new projects
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Roger Allen
Software Developer (Senior) Sirius Analytical Instruments
United Kingdom United Kingdom
A research and development programmer working for a pharmaceutical instrument company for the past 17 years.
 
I am one of those lucky people who enjoys his work and spends more time than he should either doing work or reseaching new stuff. I can also be found on playing DDO on the Cannith server (Send a tell to "Maetrim" who is my current main)
 
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