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Static Controls - Beginners			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
CPPHtmlStatic v1.2 Updated: 4 Mar 2005 A control based on CStatic for displaying HTML-like text formatting elements. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Eugene Pustovoyt	4.58
Using the CStatic control Updated: 23 Mar 2001 An entry level tutorial on using the CStatic control VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Wolfram Steinke	4.49
Static Controls - Custom Controls			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
CBitmapSlider Updated: 18 Sep 2003 A CStatic derived class that has slider functions. It is skinned using bitmaps. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Junho Ryu	4.70
Hyperlink Scroller Updated: 21 Nov 2002 An article on scrolling your hyperlinks, something like a news ticker VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Weiye Chen	4.67
CClockST v1.3 Updated: 12 Jul 2002 A simple digital clock and date class derived from the MFC CStatic class VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Davide Calabro	4.66
CCloudsCtrl - Simulating clouds using MFC Updated: 14 Dec 2003 This control simulates clouds with scrolling text and can be used as an aboutbox. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pablo van der Meer	4.65
CStarWarsCtrl - Star Wars Credits Control Updated: 17 Jul 2002 This is an attempt to create a control which looks like the credits of the Star Wars movies. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pablo van der Meer	4.63
Digital Meter Control Updated: 12 Jul 2007 A digital meter control of virtual instruments VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lingsong	4.62
XHTMLStatic - An Extra-Lean Custom Control to Display HTML Updated: 25 Oct 2007 A custom control based on CStatic that interprets and displays common HTML text formatting elements such as bold, italic, color, font, and size, but adds only 16 Kb to your app. VC6, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.55
Enhanced Line-Drawing Class with Text Updated: 29 Nov 1999 The CSeparator class is an enhancement to standard static text controls that duplicates the look of the Office 97 products' options screens, like Word NT4, C++, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Dunn	4.38
CAboutCtrl - Aboutbox Credits Control Updated: 18 Jul 2002 This control can be use as an about box for your applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pablo van der Meer	4.37
Creating and Using custom controls in VC++ Updated: 21 Sep 2003 This article will create a custom control using the custom control on the control bar. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Yogesh M Joshi.	4.15
Drive Information Updated: 8 Feb 2003 A CStatic derived class to show drive information. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	A. Riazi	4.08
A simple transparent CStatic-derived class Updated: 16 Dec 2002 This class allows you to create transparent static controls. For instance, you can add text on a bitmap in a dialog. VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Zorglab	3.87
CZoomCtrl: Picture Control with Zooming and Scrolling - Unedited Updated: 25 Mar 2008 A scrollable child window for pictures any size VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C++, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jim Dill	3.75
Text-only Blackboard control Updated: 14 Oct 2003 Text-only Blackboard control for MFC VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Danang Suharno Ngadinegaran	3.71
Wall Clock Control Updated: 12 Feb 2004 This article explains how to add a wall clock control to a dialog-based application. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Sunil.S.	3.66
Dynamic LED Control Updated: 29 Jul 2002 A blinking LED-style control VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	VGirish	3.63
A Static Hyperlink control Updated: 26 Dec 2002 An article describing the usage of a CStatic derived Hyperlink control VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Renjith Ramachandran	3.27
A static control with scrolling text Updated: 5 Jan 2004 CTextScroller is a smart control that can be placed in an About dialog. The text is automatically formatted to fit the client rectangle. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Black_Daimond	2.59
ControlObjectList Updated: 16 Aug 2002 Add/Remove/Scroll/Sort Object List (CButton, CStatic, etc..) VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	DCUtility	2.32
Scrollable Image Viewer - Unedited Updated: 1 May 2008 An image display control with image scrolling facility .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C#, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Beginner, Intermediate	Vivek Ragunathan	1.00
Static Controls - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Static LED control - CDigiStatic 1.3 Updated: 5 Oct 2002 A control to display text or numbers with a 14 or 7 segment display. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michel Wassink	4.80
Digital Display CStatic control Updated: 9 Nov 2002 An article on the Digital Display Control VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nic Wilson	4.80
CStatic-derived histogram control Updated: 9 Jan 2000 A simple histogram control for displaying data VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alexander Fedorov	4.74
CGroupLine Updated: 16 Nov 2005 CStatic enhancement that adds a trailing horizontal line, and supports WinXP themes. VC7.1, VS.NET2003, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Warren Stevens	4.74
A bevelline with horizontal and vertical text Updated: 9 Jan 2000 A bevelline control that displays vertical and horizontal text VC6, NT4, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Bühler	4.69
CLayeredBitmapCtrl Updated: 27 Jan 2005 A CStatic derived control that allows multiple layers of bitmaps to be displayed or hidden in the same control. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Metaldude	4.67
An LED Style display control and bar control Updated: 17 Jan 2000 A control to display time, floating point numbers or integers using an LED digital-style display VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jason Troitsky	4.65
A Ticker control Updated: 3 Sep 2000 A class that provides a news/stock ticker for your MFC applications VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ranjeet Chakraborty	4.65
Using colors in CEdit and CStatic Updated: 31 Mar 2001 Classes derived from CEdit and CStatic. It makes changing colors for text and backgrounds easy. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Robert Brault	4.60
XColorStatic - a colorizing static control Updated: 16 Oct 2003 XColorStatic is a simple CStatic-based control that provides font changes, text and background colors, and icon display. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.47
Vista Info Bar Updated: 11 Oct 2006 Gradient Infobar like that of Windows Vista C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	f22_storm	4.45
An LED time and value display control Updated: 16 Jan 2000 A control to display times and numbers using an LED digital-style display VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jason Troitsky	4.42
CMatrixCtrl - Matrix Credits Control Updated: 24 Jul 2002 This is an attempt to create a control which looks a little bit like the credits of the Matrix movie. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Pablo van der Meer	4.36
Extended Use of CStatic Class - CLabel 1.6 Updated: 2 Aug 2002 A fully stocked owner drawn CStatic class VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	norm .net	4.35
AIM-Style Scrolling Banner Control Updated: 30 Jun 2001 A scrolling banner control containing strings with individual styles and colors. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, STL, Dev, Intermediate	PaulWendt	4.31
CStaticFader Updated: 27 Dec 1999 A CStatic class that gently fades text into view VC6, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jason Troitsky	4.28
CFontStatic Updated: 20 Jun 2004 An easy way to change the look of a CStatic. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Patrik Svensson	4.27
3DStatic Updated: 6 Jun 2005 An article to draw a 3D math function on a static control. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	asef	4.26
Small C++ class to transform any static control into a hyperlink control Updated: 6 Feb 2006 This class is small, efficient and is compatible with Win32 API programs and MFC programs as well. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	lano1106	4.24
Static text to display long filenames with ellipses Updated: 15 Jan 2000 Lightweight class for displaying long filespecs that may need to be truncated VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Ravi Bhavnani	4.23
BigClock with Transparent Background Updated: 19 Jan 2008 BigClock with Transparent Background based on the 7 segment LCD VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C++, C++/CLI, C, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	PeterGlen	4.22
CLEDScreen class - LED digital screen with transparency Updated: 25 Jan 2005 A CStatic derived digital LED screen with transparency. Based on "CStaticTime class" of Jason Hattingh. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	olden69	4.20
Seven Segment LCD Control Updated: 18 Jan 2008 Simple Seven Segment LCD Control derived from CWnd and CStatic VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, VS6, C++, Windows, Win32, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Design, Intermediate	PeterGlen	4.16
A Gradient Static Control Updated: 26 Apr 2004 A Static control will gradient VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Irek Zielinski	4.14
Yet Another Transparent Static Control Updated: 14 Dec 2004 Two other methods of making a transparent static control. VC6, VC7, VS.NET2002, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Ali Rafiee	4.14
CxStatic: a CStatic control with text wrapping Updated: 17 Feb 2005 A CStatic control with text wrapping, color, and transparency. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Vincent Richomme	4.04
CCheckStatic Updated: 12 Mar 2001 A Static derived class which provides a check box to enable/disable items inside it VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Christian Graus	3.98
CStatic derivative CSpeedoMeter class Updated: 22 Jan 2005 A simple SpeedoMeter class based on CStatic base class. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, GDI, Dev, Intermediate	Henry Tan Setiawan	3.93
2DStatic Updated: 6 Apr 2005 An article for drawing a String formula at a static. VC6, NT4, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	asef	3.91
A simple image preview class using GDI+ Updated: 5 Mar 2004 Using GDI+ in conjunction with an owner-draw static window VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Rob Manderson	3.89
GIF Animation Control Updated: 18 Apr 2004 A CStatic derived class for displaying GIF Animations. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	A. Riazi	3.84
Bar Graph Control Updated: 26 Jan 2004 Simple bar graph control class derived from CStatic VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Shaibujan	3.83
Bar Graph Control - Unedited Updated: 5 Feb 2007 A useful bar graph control, derived from CStatic. VC6, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Shaibujan	3.50
Using a CStatic control to display an EMF image Updated: 31 Aug 2002 Displaying enhanced metafiles in dialogs VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Holger Kloos	3.44
Double Buffered Canvas Updated: 24 Jan 2001 Java style canvas component, double buffer and easy mouse support. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nicolas Pabion	3.27
CVisualEffect Updated: 16 May 2004 A CStatic derived class to show some visual effects on images. VC6, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	A. Riazi	2.70
Tip-Static control like Updated: 9 Jan 2000 A tip-of-the-day control that uses a cool sliding effect to show each tip VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Wooseok Seo	2.24
Analog Clock Updated: 6 Jan 2003 Add an analog clock to your project (A tutorial for creating CStatic derived controls) VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	A. Riazi	2.11
C# Controls - Label Controls			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
A Simple Label-like Control with Border Effect Updated: 18 Oct 2007 An article presenting a control capable of adding a border-like effect to any desired text .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	cesarsouza	4.08
A Transparent/Translucent Label Control with Moving Caption Updated: 16 Aug 2007 This article describes the creation of a Label custom control that can be translucent to the background. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Daniel Ortiz Acuna	3.93
Two First Controls - A Shape and an inherited Label Control Updated: 24 Aug 2007 This article describes the creation of a Shape custom control and an inherited Label control. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Daniel Ortiz Acuna	2.80