Threads in MFC

While searching for documentation about Threads in MFC I found the following: Threads in MFC Part I: Worker Threads Threads with MFC

Check value of Radiobutton

Radiobuttons in MFC are a mess. It is nevertheless possible to get its values with the following instructions. If one wants to have a group of radiobuttons the most important principle is to add them one ofter the other so that they have a ascending Resource number without any interruption. The first one in the group of radiobuttons has have the value “group=true”. For this one we add an integer Variable, lets...

Set Radio Button at runtime

The following code sets the value of a radio button to checked: CButton *pButton = reinterpret_cast<CButton*>(GetDlgItem(IDC_RADIO1)); pButton->SetCheck(1); // Button is "checked"

changing of the mouse cursor

The following code sets the mouse cursor to the waiting state and back to its default before: HCURSOR hCursorWait; HCURSOR hCursorDefault; hCursorWait = LoadCursor(NULL,IDC_WAIT); hCursorDefault = ::SetCursor(hCursorWait);   ::SetCursor(hCursorDefault);

Open, Save and Read Bitmaps

The task to read a bitmap into a data array, show this bitmap and save an array or dc to a file sound like a simple task but is rather difficult in reality if one uses MFC. Maybe I am totaly wrong when stating this, but that is my result of one week searching for solutions and implementing my own ones. What I have achieved can be as an example project.   bitmapopenandsave.zip (61,0 KiB) The idea of...

Show Dialog on Second Screen

The following Code maximises a dialog on the second screen. The code is available for download:   DrawOnSecondScreen.zip (43,9 KiB) void DlgSecondScreen::ResizeDialog(const CRect newRect) { // Resize Dialog SetWindowPos(&CWnd::wndTop, newRect.left, newRect.top, newRect.right, newRect.bottom, SWP_SHOWWINDOW | // Displays the window. SWP_NOCOPYBITS // Do NOT Save...