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Articles by Alain Rist (Articles: 10, Tip/Tricks: 5)

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WTL	A Pocket PC WTL image viewer 13 Dec 2004 Updated: 13 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.91 Licence: CPL Views: 164,712 Bookmarked: 57 Downloaded: 513 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some proposed WTL classes and functions at work: CAppWindow, CFullScreenFrame, CStdDialog, CF_DIB clipboard support, and more...
	Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL) 23 Jan 2010 Updated: 12 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 82 Popularity: 9.16 Licence: CPL Views: 226,917 Bookmarked: 149 Downloaded: 4,725 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application
	CToolTipDialog class : a simple WTL class to enable tooltips in your dialogs 9 Nov 2003 Updated: 9 Nov 2003 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 161,767 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 3,503 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add this small class to your existing dialog inheritance list and get nice tooltips on controls and dialog.
	Integrate the OpenOffice.org Power in a WTL (or Other Native Win32) Application 9 Jan 2009 Updated: 18 Feb 2009 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.40 Licence: CPL Views: 79,045 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 3,197 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OOo::DocWindow and WTL::COOoCtrl classes to work on any Microsoft-Office document, and Open Office SDK integration in Visual Studio/VCExpress 2005/2008
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	Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl 23 Oct 2004 Updated: 2 Nov 2004 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,460 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 2,728 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.
Windows Mobile	Unusual but Useful Dialog-based Classes Designed for Specialization 6 Nov 2007 Updated: 11 Nov 2007 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 87,154 Bookmarked: 78 Downloaded: 2,556 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Featuring cell menu, in-place editor, single control and split dialogs, Vista shell and Mobile file controls and selection dialogs
	Frame Related Classes and Message Map Macros for Windows Mobile and Desktop WTL Applications (Part 1) 28 Jul 2009 Updated: 29 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.74 Licence: CPL Views: 32,293 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 1,049 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Message map macros, split frames, full screen implementation, and automatic mapping of UI elements.
	WTL CString Class Implemented with the Standard C++ Library 28 Sep 2006 Updated: 28 Sep 2006 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: CPL Views: 93,262 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 763 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Plug-in CodeProject's CStdString as WTL::CString and get the WTL CString support with a Standard C++ Library implementation.
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C++	Have a glass with WTL! 30 May 2007 Updated: 5 Jun 2007 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.79 Licence: CPL Views: 137,071 Bookmarked: 80 Downloaded: 3,562 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Enable Aero glass with your native (WTL) applications and keep backwards compatibility
Visual C++ 9.0	SimpleDiff: A Simple File Comparison Utility 29 Aug 2009 Updated: 3 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,702 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 514 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A submisson to the CodeProject Lean and Mean challenge.

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String	Converting TCHAR[] to string, while getting PC Name [Tip/Trick] 8 Jun 2010 Updated: 8 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,700 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You might have considered using ::GetComputerNameA() which does the conversion for you:std::string GetSystemName(){ CHAR sBuf[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1] = {0}; DWORD dwLen = MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH; ::GetComputerNameA(sBuf, &dwLen); return std::string(sBuf);}Note...
	Load a Windows string resource into a std::string or std::wstring [Tip/Trick] 8 Jun 2010 Updated: 12 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,102 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A set of C++ functions to load the resource into an existing string or build the string from it
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C++	Collect data from an object of some other class [Tip/Trick] 26 Feb 2010 Updated: 28 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,271 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There are circumstances, such as report or log entry, where we need to collect data from an object of some other (related or not) class. The C++ language only requires that we instruct the compiler how we intend to do it. This is simply achieved by defining a constructor of recipient_class...
	A simple program to solve quadratic equations with [Tip/Trick] 10 Nov 2010 Updated: 16 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,450 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I prefer this :) #include #include #include #include static const double bad_double = std::numeric_limits::quiet_NaN();class QuadSolver{ static bool IsZero(double val) { return (val == 0) \|\| (fabs(val) <...
C++11	Remove Diacritical Marks in a Unicode String [Tip/Trick] 28 Nov 2010 Updated: 29 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,000 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With a helper CharMap class using VC2010 C++0x implementation

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Alain Rist

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