MFC

XP themes
What is the proceedure to add XP themes to my MFC application? ... 5 Sep 2005 16:00

CString vs tstring
More and more I am encountering clients insisting on using STL instead of the MFC collection classes. This is abysmal for me because to me, STL is a prime example of taking a simple concept and making it as complex as possible. CString has an LPCTSTR operator so your code is uncluttered to access the char * b... 7 Sep 2005 13:26

Tooltip disappears too fast in layered window
Hello, I have a (MFC) layered window that I create like this: DWORD dwExStyle = 0; #ifdef USE_LAYERED_WINDOWS dwExStyle |= WS_EX_LAYERED; #endif BOOL bOK = CreateEx ( dwExStyle, AfxRegisterWndClass (0, NULL, NULL, AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon (IDR_MAINFRAME)), ... 4 Sep 2005 15:52

CRebarCtrl
Hi Guys, Can someone point me to a CRebarCtrl MFC sample? I have a propertysheet and it has a propertypage. I have partitioned the controls on the left and right of the propertypage, I want to make use of rebar control, so I can drag towards left or right. Thanks Vipin ... 2 Sep 2005 14:40

HTML help
Hello, We are trying to compile our VC6.0 application with VS .Net 2003 (unmanaged code). The help file gets created OK, but we receive a "Project Error" when the task finishes (we did not receive any error messages with VC6.0). Unfortunately, this failure causes VS to stop, and the application never gets compil... 3 Sep 2005 11:24

RoundRect and border
Hello, I'm using RoundRect method to draw a rectangle. How do I draw a RoundBorder(using different color) around this RoundRectangle ? Thanks, Janiv Ratson. ... 1 Sep 2005 14:55

CListCtrl multiline cells
I have CListCtrl type report. I need to write into it's items multiline text. When I insert into text "\r\n", it does not help. How to write multiline text into CListCtrl cell ? Other thing what I need is to change font in some cells. I know SetFont(), but how can I retrieve HWND of cell ? Thanks ! Peter ... 1 Sep 2005 11:17

encrypting a password!
Hi All, Can someone point me on how to encrypt and decrypt a password using vc++1.52? Is it possible to call a com object from vc++ 1.52? If so, how can I do it? Is there a link you can point me to? Thanks. ... 2 Sep 2005 14:40

height/width of dialog
Dialog resource contains this:- ID DIALOGEX 0, 0, 400, 258 STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_SYSMENU FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1 How do I programitically calculate the height and width in pixels of the dialog without any windows API from values 400 and 258? Thanks ... 31 Aug 2005 18:10

How to change the font in Static Text
Hai I want to change the font size and type of the static text. Is it posible to change the font in the static text. If posible how can we change the font of the static text. Regards S.Vinodh Noel (Bangalore) ... 1 Sep 2005 10:45