How to catch the events when you click on the application’s icon on the taskbar?

In the post “How to change the row height of CListCtrl“, it gives 2 solution example how to change row height or CListCtrl. Hower, it is not the simplest way. The simplest way to change the row height in a CListCtrl is: Display an icon with the desired height. All other ways that I know [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How to set the backgroud color of CPropertyPage? If you override OnCtlColor in your property page, then you can return a different background color and that seems to work with CStatic and other items. But what if you want is a background that’s not just a simple color? You’d like to be able to draw [...]

Use CListCtrl::SetItemState with LVIS_SELECTED

Pedro Ferreira I’m trying to create a UI thread to do constant background work, but I’m having some design problems. The thread needs to fetch records from a database. do some processing on each record and, when there are no more records, sleep for 1 minute before check the database again. The process will be [...]

Pedro Ferreira said: I’m trying to create a UI thread to do constant background work, but I’m having some design problems. The thread needs to fetch records from a database. do some processing on each record and, when there are no more records, sleep for 1 minute before check the database again. The process will [...]