MFC

CWaitCursor problem
HI all, I am having a problem with CWaitCursor. This is a multithreaded application. I am using PostMessage(..) from a child thread to parent view to set the BeginWaitCursor. This works fine, but the mouse cursor goes back to being an arrow if the user moves the mouse. How can this problem be resolved?... 18 Oct 2005 11:27

CDC problems
Ok this is really starting to mess things up for me and ive searched the msdn library until my head hurts, so ive decided to ask you guys. Theres two things im having problems with: 1) Copying an image to a temporary CDC, then stretching it onto another CDC. For example this code generates runtime errors for m... 18 Oct 2005 11:59

CPropertyPage Disable
How can I disable or hide (not deleting) a Property page from a Property sheet in VC++ 6.0. ... 14 Oct 2005 11:29

SetWindowHookEX and WM_SYSCOMMAND problem
hi, i'm trying to hook a window and get the wm_syscommand that it receives. the hook done ok, but the message not arrived. only WH_GETMESSAGE hook can get the WM_SYSCOMMAND but without the wParam value. so as i read in some article i need to subclass the window in order to get it's WM_SYSCOMMAND event. is th... 20 Oct 2005 13:56

CFrameWnd Create Method
Hi all, I apologize if I am being too much. But I have another problem. I am at work now so lots of things I am working with in MFC. I've been working with a CDialog class in my Dialog apps, but I have to switch to CFrameWnd to make my Dialog more functionable. It is also a DLL Dialog and when it was CD... 14 Oct 2005 17:50

Combobox selected item and drop arrow height
Hi, I've searched the newsgroup but I cannot find an answer to my question. The question is can you change the height of a Combobox's selected item and the dropdown arrow to its right? I'm not talking about when the combobox is expanded and the list appears. I've seen examples which change the size of each i... 13 Oct 2005 17:15

CComboBoxEx Dropdown height
Hello all, I am creating a CComboBoxEx dynamically to a CWnd. Unfortunately I cannot seem to get the dropdown to show when I click on the down arrow. I have already set the height of the dropdown using MoveWindow (making the height of the comboboxex much higher). All the elements and the images are working ... 13 Oct 2005 13:01

CEdit text color
I *assumed* this would be easy ... I have a dialog-based app with a CEdit control to display data being monitored by the app. I add text to the control with ReplaceSel. Each event being displayed is a single line. I would like different colored text for different events (lines) being displayed. How do I... 12 Oct 2005 17:39

Multiple defines
I have a problem that seems to come and go. Sometimes when I compile and link my program I get the following two errors: nafxcw.lib(afxmem.obj) : error LNK2005: "void * __cdecl operator new(unsigned int)" (??2(a)YAPAXI@Z) already defined in LIBCMT.lib(new.obj) nafxcw.lib(afxmem.obj) : error LNK2005: "void __cde... 11 Oct 2005 12:50

MFC headers
I have consulted Jeff Prosise's, "Windows with MFC" and some online documentation and it is far from clear which headers I include for various MFC features. In general I have #include <windows.h> // For anything low-level Windows (but I am unhappy at such a monolithic header) #include <afx.h> // ... 11 Oct 2005 17:34