Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.
General Solution for a Transparent Control
Published 10/24/2008
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A Simple Command Line Interface with a Custom Scrollbar
Published 12/06/2004
The CCommandLine control can be used to add a command line interface to any application. It supports a "scrollback buffer" of the last 100 lines typed in, as well as a custom scrollbar whose functionality mirrors that found under certain versions of KDE and Gnome.
Matrix-Like Credits for MFC Applications
Published 06/09/2004
This simple class displays Matrix-like credits in MFC applications.
HotProp Control
Published 09/10/2003
The HotProp control was designed for applications that need a flexible, modeless property window. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)
Office 97 style Colour Picker control
Published 10/01/2002
Office 97 style Colour Picker control
Creating the Monitor Custom Control
Published 09/10/2002
This control imitates the famous monitor of the MS Windows Display properties dialog box. It was built to provide the functionality of representing the screen display with a bitmap image background.
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The Value of APIs
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are where you have to be. It's not a matter of if as much as a matter of which.
