MFC

How to open external host application for a file type
Hi, I have an MFC application managing various document types pdf, doc etc. When the user selects 'view' i want to open the external application that is associated with this file type( passing it the path to the selected document). I understand there is a API to do this? Could someone please give me an exampl... 3 Jun 2008 20:12

how to show a ListItem without image & not selectable in a CListCt
To make an item unselectable: - handle the LVN_ITEMCHANGED notification message, - check the item index, mask (uChanged) and new state (uNewState) in the passed in NMLISTVIEW structure, - if the mask contains LVIF_STATE and uNewState contains LVIS_SELECTED and/or LVIS_FOCUSED for your "unselectable" item - set t... 3 Jun 2008 20:12

How to create Windows forms like in VB using VC++6?
Hi I'm newbie to VC++6 environment. I already know VB6,VB.net, C,C++ and JAVA. Now I am doing project in Directx sdk using MS-VC++ 6. I learned MFC enough to program. But I couldn't make Windows forms like VB. I have tried it using Appwizard but it so Clumsy. The Appwizard is focusing in Doc/View architecture. ... 4 Jun 2008 11:17

how to show a ListItem without image & not selectable in a CListCtrl
Hi, I want to develop a CListCtrl, in that i do not want to show the icon(image) for a single list item. And, i do not want user to select that list item. Except this item, all remaining items should have icon(image) and should be selectable. How do i do this ? Can anybody help me ? Thanks in Advance. -... 3 Jun 2008 20:12

Passing strings between a vc6 dll and vb6 exe
I have a win32 dll (VC6) and a VB6 exe. The dll gets loaded (and a specified single parameter function is called) by a 3rd party app - when an event of interest occurs. The 3rd party app uses the __cdecl calling convention and passes a single LPSTR argument to the dll funtion. I now want to add some code in that dl... 3 Jun 2008 20:12

CArray parameter pass -> Dll function =>fails
Hello I've got a great error that I don't have got any idea why is it. I've got a function in a DLL app UNICODE c++: void GetAng (CArray <double,double> &angs) { ang.RemoveAll (); <------------------ Abort here ang.SetAtGorw (1, 23); ..... } I've got a function in a Mai... 3 Jun 2008 20:12

debugger extentions ADDIN, how to resolve pointers?
Hi, I've written a couple of functions to help to display more intelligible values in the debugging window. One was to show the human readable form of COleDateTime. The other was to walk the first record of an ADO recordset. They are implemented in a dll which is called by the debugger through references in... 4 Jun 2008 11:17

UpdateAllViews
Hi When clicks on View, my program draws ellipse and I tried to make all changes in one view reflects to all views. 1-)OnLbuttonDown adds a point to CArray m_PointList 2-)UpdateAllViews calls OnUpdate 3-) OnUpdate Invaliates so OnDraw called. void CDocumentView::OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point... 8 Jun 2008 15:25

Preprocessor definitions for x64 projects
Hello, I'm migrating an existing MFC project to 64 bits, and I'm wondering if i had to change the WIN32 define to WIN64 in the project "Preprocessor definitions". Thanks ... 25 Jun 2008 15:01

Query regarding A,B,C char. width values returned in 16-bit and 32-bit OS
I am trying to retrieve individual character widths of a string (from a TrueType font) and I tried using GetCharWidth (which weirdly works for TrueType fonts too tho' MSDN says otherwise) and/or GetCharABCWidths to retrieve the A,B and C spacings. Please note that I have selected the TrueType font (hFont) into the ... 2 Jun 2008 03:49