Codez Bank: A Code Snippet Bank Application

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Introduction

CodezBank is just a small application that stores source code snippets organized in a hierarchical manner with basic search ability. You just copy and paste the code snippet into or from this application via the Clipboard. If you have a bag of coding tricks, then you want to keep them in this app.

Background

Every time I work on some project, I always find myself digging through books and my old files to see how I did one or another piece of code. Although it works, it usually requires a lot of time. Sites like CodeProject keep code always available, but if I am offline or in a remote location without connectivity, then I have always wanted a small application that keeps the code snippets organized and handy.

Features

• Added sorting arrows to columns:

  

• Created options property pages to load last file on startup:

  

• Created text editor configuration property page instead of using the hardcoded values:

  

• Fonts and colors are now configurable:

  

Points of Interest

This application is a medium to advanced MFC project that covers advanced usage of libraries provided by Microsoft.

• Storing data in a binary tree
• SDI Explorer like interface with multiple views in the right pane (Color syntax and List view)
• Colored syntax editor
• Tree drag drop that rearranges the data in the binary tree
• Usage of Regular Expressions provided by the vbscript.dll #import. Replaced with std::regex classes

History

Version 1.0.0.1 - 7^th April, 2008

• Initial code

Version 1.0.0.2 - 22^nd April, 2008

• Fixed undo bug in the code editor. Thanks to ndrsoft for pointing out a solution.

1.0.0.3 - 30^th June, 2008

• Added more C++/C keywords as was suggested by the readers
• Changed tool bar to have a 256 color bitmap instead of 16 color
• Added documentation panel to the Source view. You can put all the explanation down there instead of comments so the code looks cleaner for the eye. I found it useful to paste there the whole MSDN or other documentation page(s) and links. Then, you will have the whole shebang in one tree node.
• Moved to GitHub
• Upgraded the solution file to Visual Studio 2022

13^th August, 2022

• Updated the project to include 64 bit build
• Changed main windows to incorporate latest MFC skin styles
• Cleaned up some old junk code

22^nd August, 2022

• Added option to automatically load last file on startup
• Removed VBScript regular expressions and replaced it with std::regex classes
• Moved syntax parser into the separate class
• Added configuration property sheets to replace hardcoded values

Bugs

• Syntax editor very limited as far as undo actions. (I am figuring this out. If anyone knows how to fix that, drop me a note) So do not Ctrl+Z, it won't work. Fixed.
• Syntax editor currently highlights a subset of C and C++ keywords. I will add VB and C# later.