Limit your dialog-based programs to a single instance by modifying the dialog template.
TIP: Dialog-Based, Single-Instance Applications
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Resources Explorer
Published 03/22/2005
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.
XP Theme Support for Rich Edit and Custom Controls
Published 12/03/2004
Learn how to add genuine Windows XP theme support to Rich Edit controls and extend the code for your own custom controls!
Making Any Application Transparent in Windows 2000/XP
Published 12/09/2003
Explore how to turn any running application transparent in the same way as the layering features of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
A Line Picker
Published 10/23/2003
Examine how to select the style, width, and color attributes for a CPen object from a dialog.
Processing System Messages
Published 07/22/2003
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.
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