Developing Applications with a User-Customizable GUI Layout
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Ruslan Kolosenko - 01/28/2003
Many applications that use dialogs and form views would be more effective if they allowed a user to customize their screen GUI layout. This article describes a solution that would give developers the possibility to make their applications customizable by users.

Velocity-Based Joystick Controller
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Hitesh Kumar Shah - 11/12/2002
This joystick-like controller can be used to generate velocity-based commands for scheduling actions based on provided thresholds. In particular, it simulates, in software, the physical joystick that kids use to drive their own "Remote Toy Car."

MDI list in the status bar ( and a custom Window List dialog )
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Iuri Apollonio - 10/01/2002
MDI list in the status bar ( and a custom Window List dialog )

Internationalizing menus using MFC support for Unicode
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Bayram Kuliyev - 07/23/2001
Using UNICODE feature of MFC to internationalization

Creating Skins with SkinSys Ver 1.0
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Cuneyt Elibol - 07/26/2000
MFC-based application for creating and editing skins for your applications

Framework for Creating Custom Window Captions
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Dave Lorde - 07/16/2000
Fantastic set of classes to develop window content-sensitive captions (including colors '& fonts)

Dynamic Child Window Repositioning
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Hans Buhler - 02/29/2000
Dynamic Child Window Repositioning

Visual Framework (Views, Tabs and Splitters)
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Zoran M.Todorovic - 01/24/2000
Fantastic framework for creating advanced user interfaces

How to dynamically show/hide the Taskbar application button
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Dominik Filipp - 05/16/1999
How to dynamically show/hide the Taskbar application button

A Switcher Control (like the Windows Task Bar)
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Jimmy Brush - 03/22/1999
New article with source

Voice Command Enabling Your Software
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Keith Westley - 03/20/1999
Voice Command Enabling Your Software

Internet mail look
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Alexander Nolasco - 01/24/1999
Internet mail look

Windowing Techniques and Classes

OK-CANCEL vs CANCEL-OK
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Mugunth Kumar - 07/30/2009
What order should the OK and Cancel buttons appear? Should it be like Windows or like the Mac? Are there any "rule of thumb" as to when certain standard should be followed or is it just a matter of taste?

Message Only Window
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einaros - 10/10/2006
Learn how to build an efficient library to provide support for Message Only Windows. The article also shows how to use the Thunk32 library provided in an earlier article, as well as some general pointers on good practices and patterns.

Independent Message Handlers in Window Message Processing
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Dmitriy Sholomov - 08/29/2001
Updated code with new functionality. Using the Independent Message Handlers in Window Message Processing on the example of CFrameBounder class.

Alpha Blending (Transparent) Windows
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Mike Ryan - 07/30/2000
Article that illustrates how to enable the new Alpha Blending features of Microsoft Windows 2000

The WNDCTRL Reusable Class
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Noman Nadeem - 07/23/2000
Easy to use class that enables the showing and hiding of groups of controls on a dialog or view