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Question: In some app like WinSpy/Spy++ to make adjustments to list controls. It can correctly set an app’s list control’s modes, alignments, sorting, styles, and extended styles. It can also get the widths of the columns and count of items. The problem is that you cannot seem to get the columns’ names or the item
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In some case, you need such a control as the following figure: It’s a CListCtrl like control, but it binds a CTreeCtrl in the first column. But you can also consider it as a CTreeCtrl and each of the items has the list style. All roads lead to Rome. But in 1999, David Lantsman has
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How to hilight or bold an item in CTreeCtrl/CTreeView? There is no real difference between CTreeCtrl and CTreeView. You need to use an owner draw tree control. Takeover the NM_CUSTOMDRAW message, and it will allow you to change the font, brush, etc. of each individual item. You don’t need to do any owner draw if
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Sometime you need to send/post message to CDoumnet, but CDocument is not a window, and it can’t receive message. How do that? There are 3 solutions: Solution 1: Send the message to the main window. Send/Post the message to the main frame or the view, and then call some functions of the document. But if
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Read this article: How to use an derived CListCtrl in CListView
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How to sort the items of a CListCtrl or CListView(CReportView)? First, when you add items, you need to call SetItemData to attach an data structure(an integer or a pointer) to the item. Then, define a callback sort function. int CALLBACK SortFunc(LPARAM lParam1, LPARAM lParam2, LPARAM lParamSort); And here, the prarameters lParam1 and lParam2 are the
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Sometime you use CListView and need to extend the functionality of the CListCtrl of the view. For example, you want to overwrite the handler function of the NM_CUSTOMDRAW or WM_SIZE message. So the problem is: How to tell CListView to use your own CListCtrl? OK, you are on the wrong way now. The CListView does
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How to set the head backgroud color of CPropertyPage? In the DrawItem function the TextOut position is pretty half-hearted, and looks a bit better (to my eyes) if you do it something like this instead. void CMyTabCtrl::DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDIS) { CDC* pDC = CDC::FromHandle(lpDIS->hDC); CRect rc(lpDIS->rcItem); TCHAR szTabText[255]; TC_ITEM tci; tci.cchTextMax = sizeof(szTabText)-1; tci.pszText = szTabText;
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In MFC program, you’d better try to avoid using std::string. There is no compelling reason to use it in MFC, and it leads to confusion. There are some standard method to translate among Cstring ,string and char[]. // Suppose CString str; std::string s; char buf[SIZE]; // from CString to std::string s = str; // from
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How to hook the file related event? It depends on what you need to do when such an event takes places. If what you just want to be notified, FindFirstChangeNotification and ReadDirectoryChanges are enough. If you need to intercept adn affect the operation somehow, I have heard it can be done with a kenerl-level driver(Filesystem
