6. Window, Control, & Dialogs

Microsoft Visual C++/Microsoft Foundation Classes

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6.  Windows, Controls, and Dialog Class Questions

6.1.  Windows
6.1.1.    How can I use a custom icon for a window?
6.1.2.    How do I change the styles for a window that's created by MFC?
6.1.3.    How do I get the minimal size of a window using MFC?
6.1.4.    How do I change a Window's title?
6.1.5.    How do I get rid of 'Untitled' in my main window caption?
6.1.6.    How do I maximize my MDI child?
6.1.7.    Why does focus go nutso with a CSplitterWnd?
6.1.8.    How do I make my first MDI child window start out maximized?
6.1.9.    How do I make a window stay on top of the others?
6.1.10.  How do I make a window move in front of another?
6.1.11.  How do I implement docking windows like DevStudio has?
NEW!! 6.1.12.  Why is the GetSafeHwnd() function needed, when would a HWND may be unsafe?
6.2. CSplitterWnd
UPD!!
  6.2.1. How do I create non-resizable (static AND fixed) splitter bars?
6.3. Controls
6.3.1.    How do I get a CControl from a Dialog Template?
6.3.2.    How do I subclass a control using MFC?
6.3.3.    Why do I get an ASSERT when I subclass a control?
6.3.4.    How do I validate the contents of a control when it loses focus?
6.3.5.    How do I enable/disable a bank of checkboxes?
6.3.6.    How do I change the background color of a control?
6.3.7.    How do I trap the key for my control?
6.3.8.    How can I DDX with a multiple selection listbox?
6.3.9.    How do I change the background color of a BUTTON???
6.3.10.  Why isn't CEdit putting things on separate lines?
6.3.11.  How do I get to the CEdit in a combobox?
UPD!! 6.3.12.   How do I load more than 64K into an edit control?
6.3.13.  How do I subclass the listbox portion of a combobox?
6.3.14.  How do I inherit a from a MFC standard control class?
NEW!! 6.3.15.  How do you add controls to a CDialog dynamically, instead of using a dialog resource?
NEW!! 6.3.16.  Why is my fixed-height owner drawn listbox's MeasureItem never called?
 
6.4.  Windows Common Controls  (A.K.A. Windows 95 Controls)
6.4.1.   Can I use these controls under NT or Win32s?
6.4.2.   Where's a demo of these wickedly cool controls?
6.4.3.   How do you handle NM_DBLCLK for a CListCtl?
6.4.4.   Does CTreeCtrl support multiple selection?
6.4.5.   When I expand a node in my CTreeCtrl, there's no visual feedback, what to do?
6.4.6.   How do I get multiple selection, tooltips, editable nodes, multiple columns in my trees?
NEW!!  6.4.7.  How do I tell a CListCtrl object to select the whole line and not just the left column,  when you click on an item?
NEW!!  6.4.8.  How do you turn off the sliding animation that happens when a TreeCtrl is expanded or collapsed?
NEW!! 6.4.9.  When implementing drag/drop operations, how do you get the different cursors: copy, shortcut, circle with the slash, etc. ?
6.5.  Dialogs
6.5.1.   How do I center my dialog?
6.5.2.   How do I get the 'old style' common dialogs on win95?
UPD!! 6.5.3.   How do I subclass a win95 common dialog?
6.5.4.   CDialog::Create() fails, what could be wrong?
6.5.5.   How do I create a toolbar/statusbar in a dialog?
6.5.6.   Why isn't my CDialog::PreCreateWindow() getting called?
6.5.7.   How do I embed a common dialog in a property page?      
6.5.8.   Why can't I DDX/DDV to initialize my CDialog controls?
6.5.9.   How do I change the captions of a CPropertyPage?
6.5.10. How do I trap F1 in my dialog?
6.5.11. How do I change the icon for a dialog-only MFC application?
NEW!! 6.5.12. How to I get rid of the Help and Apply buttons on my CPropertySheet-derivative?
NEW!! 6.5.13.  How do you add a resize 'handle' to a dialog?
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