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When a dynamically-resizable dialog is created, you may find it desirable to have controls resize or rearrange themselves dynamically in response to these changes. This project shows some simple techniques to use when the arrangements are not too complex. It also incorporates two other projects, the

Dialogs

Subclassing Dialogs and Property Pages

Last Updated: 5 Apr 2001 Page Views: 83,342 Rating: 3.71/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.26 Bookmark Count: 20

You have a lot of dialogs that have a lot of properties in common. You'd like to derive the specialized ones from the general ones. Here's how.

Creating a Dialog-based App

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2001 Page Views: 162,007 Rating: 3.80/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 5.31 Bookmark Count: 37

This is my method of creating dialog-based apps, and in addition, illustrates how to handle the Enter key in an edit control.

General

Dialog Box Control Management

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 87,278 Rating: 4.03/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 5.96 Bookmark Count: 38

Learn how to effectively control your dialogs.

Message Management

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 230,124 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 95 Popularity: 9.41 Bookmark Count: 187

Learn effective methods for managing your user-defined messages.

Using dialogs in console apps

Last Updated: 23 May 2000 Page Views: 79,743 Rating: 3.94/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.64 Bookmark Count: 24

Learn how to display a message box from a console application.

Using PreSubclassWindow

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2001 Page Views: 55,225 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.42 Bookmark Count: 25

PreSubclassWindow is a very nice handler to use for certain effects in dialogs.

Skins & Advanced UI

Self-Registering Windows Classes

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2001 Page Views: 60,310 Rating: 3.46/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 3.86 Bookmark Count: 28

A class that automatically registers its own Window class.

Document / View

General

Getting Timer Events in a CDocument-derived class

Last Updated: 14 Apr 2002 Page Views: 51,913 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.97 Bookmark Count: 15

But WM_TIMER messages are not routable via the standard MFC "command routing" mechanism. This article shows you how to work around this.

Edit Controls

General

Avoiding EN_CHANGE notifications

Last Updated: 30 Jun 2008 Page Views: 10,269 Rating: 3.61/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 3.61 Bookmark Count: 10

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Handling complex control interactions when edit controls are involved can lead to problems when EN_CHANGE notifications are generated by the application actually changing the control values. To avoid having to handle EN_CHANGE notifications from CEdit and CRichEdit, this article shows how to derive

Masked and Validating controls

A Validating Edit Control

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2000 Page Views: 85,193 Rating: 3.48/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 4.61 Bookmark Count: 29

A very informative, user-oriented validation edit control.

Files and Folders

General

A Handy Guide To Handling Handles

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2001 Page Views: 123,638 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.40 Bookmark Count: 32

The secrets of File Handles and their relationship to File *, CFile, CStdioFile, etc.

Miscellaneous

Custom Controls

Owner-Draw Control Example: A Color Table Generator

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2002 Page Views: 103,916 Rating: 3.76/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 4.97 Bookmark Count: 16

A control for generating colour gradients

Printing

General

A Simple Printing Mechanism

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 145,554 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 5.97 Bookmark Count: 38

Learn how to implement print support in your applications.

Applications & Tools

Tools with source code

Auto-Increment of the Build Count

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 84,014 Rating: 3.90/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.90 Bookmark Count: 47

Learn how to implement an auto-incrementing build number for your projects.

Dialog Shortcut Consistency Checker

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 31,774 Rating: 3.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.59 Bookmark Count: 8

A tool to check the consistency of your dialog shortcuts.

A better Zoomin utility

Last Updated: 17 Jun 2005 Page Views: 41,774 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.73 Bookmark Count: 44

A better Zoomin utility.

The ViewPort Explorer

Last Updated: 11 Jul 2005 Page Views: 26,187 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.42 Bookmark Count: 47

A viewport explorer utility.

GDI

Device Contexts

Saving Drawing Contexts

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2001 Page Views: 60,689 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.75 Bookmark Count: 20

GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.

General

Who Owns the GUI?

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 47,752 Rating: 3.77/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 5.57 Bookmark Count: 14

Learn about who owns the GUI definition and pitfalls of GUI programming.

Drawing Techniques

Last Updated: 31 Mar 2001 Page Views: 74,125 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.36 Bookmark Count: 45

Learn how to effectively draw your dialogs.

General Graphics

General

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

Last Updated: 5 Apr 2001 Page Views: 189,465 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.97 Bookmark Count: 64

How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.

Libraries

Code Libraries

Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer's MVP Tips, Techniques, and Goodies

Last Updated: 17 May 2000 Page Views: 44,820 Rating: 3.25/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 5.17 Bookmark Count: 43

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A collection of code examples and essays that I've often posted to the microsoft.public.vc.mfc newsgroup and other places

MFC

General

An MFC Interface to ::FormatMessage

Last Updated: 30 Jun 2008 Page Views: 9,165 Rating: 3.49/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.63 Bookmark Count: 13

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

This essay shows an interface that allows the ::FormatMessage API to be easily accessed from MFC.

C / C++ Language

General

Attaching and Detaching Objects

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 76,142 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.50 Bookmark Count: 49

Attaching and detaching MFC objects to and from Windows objects.

Avoiding GetDlgItem

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 218,807 Rating: 2.56/5 Votes: 111 Popularity: 5.23 Bookmark Count: 44

Learn how to refrain from using GetDlgItem.

Avoiding Multiple Instances of an Application

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 242,370 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 110 Popularity: 9.61 Bookmark Count: 154

Learn the right way to limit your application to run only one instance.

Callbacks, Threads, and MFC

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 113,949 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 7.44 Bookmark Count: 75

Learn how to use callbacks and threads with MFC.

A Simple Vector Editor

Last Updated: 5 Jun 2002 Page Views: 79,900 Rating: 3.58/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 4.65 Bookmark Count: 19

A simeple editor to make my polygon class a bit more usable.

Avoiding UpdateData

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2007 Page Views: 175,016 Rating: 2.45/5 Votes: 103 Popularity: 4.92 Bookmark Count: 37

Learn how to avoid using UpdateData in your modal dialogs.

Algorithms & Recipes

Algorithms

A Checksum Algorithm

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2001 Page Views: 127,715 Rating: 4.18/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.24 Bookmark Count: 56

A checksum is a value which is computed which allows you to check the validity of something. Typically, checksums are used in data transmission contexts to detect if the data has been transmitted successfully.

A General Polygon Management Routine

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2001 Page Views: 61,549 Rating: 3.59/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 4.51 Bookmark Count: 28

A class to make handling polygons easier.

DLLs & Assemblies

General

The Ultimate (DLL) Header File

Last Updated: 7 Nov 2000 Page Views: 111,124 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.24 Bookmark Count: 69

Here is the ultimate header file that makes multiple declaration compiler errors a thing of the past.

Hooks

Hooks and DLLs

Last Updated: 31 Mar 2001 Page Views: 333,803 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 96 Popularity: 8.72 Bookmark Count: 229

There is a lot of confusion about how to set up and use global hook functions. This essay attempts to clear up some of these issues.

Programming Tips

General

The Graphical Developer Interface

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 51,021 Rating: 4.24/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.32 Bookmark Count: 49

Learn effective methods for logging and debugging your Windows apps.

Optimization: Your Worst Enemy

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2000 Page Views: 173,746 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 144 Popularity: 10.11 Bookmark Count: 102

Learn about the potential pitfalls of code optimization.

Creating your own GUIDs

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2001 Page Views: 79,436 Rating: 2.80/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 3.51 Bookmark Count: 19

A simple method of creating a unique name or identifier.

Using FormatMessage

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2002 Page Views: 80,854 Rating: 2.79/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 3.01 Bookmark Count: 26

An example of one of the most effective uses of the the call to FormatMessage

String handling

General

CString Management

Last Updated: 17 May 2000 Page Views: 330,603 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 127 Popularity: 9.73 Bookmark Count: 228

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Learn how to effectively use CStrings.

Threads, Processes & IPC

General

An MFC Process Class

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2001 Page Views: 131,625 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 5.96 Bookmark Count: 51

This class allows you to create a child process and receive notification of its output.

Inter-Process Communication

An Introduction to Processes: Asynchronous Process Notification

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 117,716 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.85 Bookmark Count: 70

Learn how to create new processes and how to efficiently manage them.

Threading

A Fiber Class (and Friends)

Last Updated: 1 Jul 2008 Page Views: 8,859 Rating: 4.46/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.71 Bookmark Count: 26

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Fibers are a lightweigtht cooperative threading mechanism, or a coroutine mechanism, depending on how you look at them. Besides providing a very efficient thread-like implementation, fibers allow you to provide "continuations", that is, computations which perform some function, suspend themselves, a

Threads

Using User-Interface Threads

Last Updated: 16 May 2000 Page Views: 236,548 Rating: 4.08/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 6.62 Bookmark Count: 96

Learn tricks on how to create and use a User-Interface thread.

Using Worker Threads

Last Updated: 5 Apr 2001 Page Views: 468,860 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 201 Popularity: 10.79 Bookmark Count: 328

Learn how to create and use worker threads in your applications.

Using Semaphores: Multithreaded Producer/Consumer

Last Updated: 14 Jun 2001 Page Views: 160,194 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.23 Bookmark Count: 59

An introduction to using Semaphores.

Debug Tips

General

Surviving the Release Version

Last Updated: 16 Jul 2001 Page Views: 248,738 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 162 Popularity: 10.39 Bookmark Count: 203

Learn about the issues and differences between Debug and Release builds.

Hardware & System

General

Time is the Simplest Thing...

Last Updated: 2 Jun 2000 Page Views: 121,899 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 75 Popularity: 8.13 Bookmark Count: 59

Explains misconceptions about timing in Windows.

How Big Is My Program

Last Updated: 4 Apr 2001 Page Views: 55,546 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 6.86 Bookmark Count: 27

A discussion on the working size of your executable, and why you shouldn't believe those numbers PView or task manager tell you.

Registry

A Registry Class

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2001 Page Views: 56,760 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.12 Bookmark Count: 39

This represents a handy set of classes I built to ease the pain of dealing with the Registry.

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