Miscellaneous

Learn about a search files with resources to explore it. The selected resource can be extracted. This tool is a sample of using Splitter, List, Tree, and resource display.

Limit your dialog-based programs to a single instance by modifying the dialog template.

Learn how to add genuine Windows XP theme support to Rich Edit controls and extend the code for your own custom controls!

Explore how to turn any running application transparent in the same way as the layering features of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Examine how to select the style, width, and color attributes for a CPen object from a dialog.

When running in a loop within a dialog box, the command buttons do not work. While other authors have shown how to use separate threads to run a modal dialog box, this article shows how to process the Message Loop within the same dialog by adding a simple function and making calls to it.

A solution for having a variable number of buttons on a dialog.

Find, view, and delete cookies that have been left on your machine.

Discover how to make dialog applications of non-rectangular shapes and how to rotate those custom-shaped windows. (Very cool!)

Creating non-standard Windows interfaces is cool. Learn a program technique using window regions and CButton class overloading.

Build a class to display popup dialogs like the the MSN messenger window. This supports non-rectangular windows by using a BMP with a transparency color.

Create a configuration sheet manager similar to what is in Mozilla or Netscape Navigator. This is a set of dialogs associated with list/tree controls.

Include text justification, different fonts, and styles to give the information in your dialogs a little more pizazz. Uses a simple markup language.

CLayeredWindowHelperST is a wrapper class of all required APIs to add support for transparent (layered) windows to your applications.

There are times when one would like to display messages in an non-obtrusive way. Message Balloons are one of the new ways.

Create a dynamic dialog that can change its controls based on a listbox selection.

Very useful information if you need to arrange position and size of other windows based upon the dialog size before the dialog gets displayed.

Create dialog applications where child dialogs slide out from underneath the parent dialog!

Dynamic Dialog Class

Enumerating Controls of a Dialog Resource at Runtime

Adding a "push pin" to the dialog

Changing Dialog like UNIX or LINUX App

Creating a Round Dialog

Attaching Elements to Borders