Latest Miscellaneous Articles

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

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.

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.