A Validating Edit Control
Have you ever wanted a control that only accepted valid values and gave feedback to the user? This is a little project that illustrates the techniques for building a validating edit control.
Capturing Window Controls and Modifying their properties
A Spy tool program like MS Spy++ that lets you capture window
controls and modify their properties. Useful for learning
window handles and their properties. This program is useful to
obtain a window handle, caption, class name, style, and size.
Moreover, it facilitates changing caption name, style, and
extended style of victim window control in run-time load.
Case-sensitive ComboBox
When searching for strings in Combo boxes, the search is always case-insensitive. This article presents a ComboBox that is case sensitive.
COddButton
This article presents an almost undocumented technique to assist owner-draw buttons in behaving just like standard buttons. It also provides a new base class to derive your owner-draw buttons from, to easily enable this capability.
Embed Progress Bars in a List Control
This control can be used for displaying the progress of multiple events simultaneously. Each line in a list control can have its own progress bar. Progress bars operate independently and (can be) simultaneously.