I have experience writing console and network client/server apps in C and C++, but I know next to nothing about using the win32 visual API, MFC, QT, WxWidgets, etc. Where is a good place to start, and what method should I specialize in, so as to be future ready and robust?...
In my MFC application, when I call CComboBox::ShowDropDown(), the mouse cursor is hidden until interaction with the combo box completes (when the combo box loses focus.) It doesn't reappear when the mouse is moved, like it does with edit boxes. How can I keep the mouse cursor from being hidden? ...
All, I've been tasked with updating a series of applications which are performance critical VB.NET apps that essentially just monitor and return networking statistics. I've only got three requirements: convert it to C#, make it fast, and make it stable One caveat is that we "may" migrate from a .NET platform to linux "soon" I will be ...
Hi! I'm developing an MFC application and I've recently been searching for a good method to remove the icon from a Windows title bar, but retain the close button. The two obvious candidate solutions are turning off the system menu style or using the tool window style, but I would prefer not to disable the system menu or use the shrunken ...
Soooo, I am starting this new job soon where most of the code is legacy MFC. The end goal is to convert/rewrite to C#. I'm a little rusty with MFC so writing some code so I can try and spark my memory. Anyway, was wondering the best way to connect to a SS2005 database with MFC. Back in the day CDatabase via ODBC was the way to go, has t...
My company has developed a long standing product using MFC in Visual C++ as the defacto standard for UI development. Our codebase contains ALOT of legacy/archaic code which must be kept operational. Some of this code is older than me (originally written in the late 70s) and some members of our team are still on Visual Studio 6. However,...
I'm looking for any resources on hosting a WPF form within an existing MFC application. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this? Thanks, --Mark ...
What is the proper way for an MFC application to cleanly close itself? ...
I'm using Visual C++ 2005 and would like to know the simplest way to connect to a MS SQL Server and execute a query. I'm looking for something as simple as ADO.NET's SqlCommand class with it's ExecuteNonQuery(), ExecuteScalar() and ExecuteReader(). Sigh offered an answer using CDatabase and ODBC. Can anybody demonstrate how it would b...
The TRACE macro can be used to output diagnostic messages to the debugger when the code is compiled in Debug mode. I need the same messages while in Release mode. Is there a way to achieve this? (Please do not waste your time discussing why I should not be using TRACE in Release mode :-) ...
Hi, We currently maintain a suit of MFC applications that are fairly well designed, however the user interface is beginning to look tired and a lot of the code is in need quite a bit of refactoring to tidy up some duplication and/or performance problems. We make use of quite a few custom controls that handle all their own drawing (all ...
I am about to reenter the MFC world after years away for a new job. What resources to people recommend for refreshing the memory? I have been doing mainly C# recently. Also any MFC centric websites or blogs that people recommend? ...
Is there a way to track which window currently has keyboard focus. I could handle WM_SETFOCUS for every window but I'm wondering if there's an alternative, simpler method (i.e. a single message handler somewhere). I could use OnIdle() in MFC and call GetFocus() but that seems a little hacky. ...
I need to display an error message on rejecting a drop in my application. I tried this in the OnDrop() but then the source application hangs till my message box is dismissed. How? ...
For many years I have used two great tools BoundsChecker & Purify, but the developers of these applications have let me down, they no longer put effort into maintaining them or developing them. We have corporate accounts with both companies, and they both tell me that they have no intention of producing versions to support 64 bit applica...
In my application I have a window which I popup with small messages on it (think similar to tooltip). This window uses the layered attributes to draw alpha backgrounds etc. If I have several of these windows open at once, and I click one with my mouse, when they disappear they cause my application to lose focus (it switches focus to the...
Has anyone implemented Lightbox style background dimming on a modal dialog box in a MFC/non .net app. I think the procedure would have to be something like: steps: Get dialog parent HWND or CWnd* Get the rect of the parent window and draw an overlay with a translucency over that window allow the dialog to do it's modal draw rou...
I'm building a C++/MFC program in a multilingual environment. I have one main (national) language and three international languages. Every time I add a feature to the program I have to keep the international languages up-to-date with the national one. The resource editor in Visual Studio is not very helpful because I frequently end up le...
Ulimately I just wanted to extract strings from the .rc file so I could translate them, but anything that goes with .rc files works for me. ...
Is there any clear documentation on the binary formats used to serialize the various MFC data structures? I've been able to view some of my own classes in a hex editor and use Java's ByteBuffer class to read them in (with automatic endianness conversions, etc). However, I am currently running into issues while trying to bring over the ...