About code. Mostly on C++
You probably noticed that IE7 or Windows Media Player 11 don’t have the menu shown by default; it only shows up when you press the ALT key. This is one particularity of the look and feel of Windows Vista Aero. You can find guidelines about designing menus here: menu guidelines menu design concepts As revealed by … Read more
Windows Vista redesigned the way the file dialogs look. MFC 9.0 (that will ship with Visual Studio 2008) was updated to support the new look and feel. If you compile your MFC application with VS 2008 you get the new file dialogs with no additional change. On the other hand if you run the application … Read more
Visual Studio 2008 (formely code-named ‘Orcas’) has several important updates for VC++ and MFC. Among them the possibility to create syslink controls, command or split buttons and network address controls. In this post I will show how you can work with the syslink control. The control provides a way to embed hypertext links in a window. … Read more
If you want to find an item in a tree control (CTreeCtrl from MFC) by its name you need a recursive function. Below is a function that does that. How does it work: you pass the text of the item to search, the tree reference and an item in the tree. The function will search … Read more
I have decided to make a comparison for file IO operations on Win32, CRT, STL and MFC. For all four libraries/APIs I have done the profiling in the following way: open the file allocate the buffer used for reading start the timer read/write from/to the file stop the timer close the file release the memory … Read more
In a previous post I explained than when you create a MFC application with the March CTP of ‘Orcas’ and add a command or split button to a dialog, the .rc file is not compiled, because styles such as BS_COMMANDLINK are not found. My workaround for the moment was to redeclare them in the resource.h … Read more
MFC in Orcas comes with several important changes, such as support for Vista specific command button and split button. I have put together a small demo application displaying a command button with the tex Say “Hello Vista” and the note “Click on this button to show a “Hello Vista” message!”. The command button is still … Read more