Is it possible to have a 32bit client initialize/invoke methods in a 64bit local COM server? If yes, how do I set up the Proxy/stub DLLs? The target OS I have in mind is Vista64 or Win7-64 (so the 32bit client will be running from with in WOW64)....

C++

WTL

STL

ATL

32bit client talking to a 64bit local server

4 Jul 2009 by Kannan Ramanathan

One more req I have to worry abt: The 64bit local server should be able to implement connection points (32bit client being the sink)...is this possible? Thanks.

[REPOST] who can use wtl's classes to print, atlprint.h or other .h?

21 Jul 2013 by mxz_qljs

I have not find samples about print in wtl, who can help me? Mainly use atlprint.h to print, maybe multipage, and show the preview print window. Please code a demo, thanks.[This is a repost of another wanna-be-question which was probably automatically removed due to abuse reports (not a...

C++

WTL

[REPOST] who can use wtl's classes to print, atlprint.h or other .h?

23 Jul 2013 by KarstenK

look at this WTL for MFC Programmers, Part IX - GDI Classes, Common Dialogs, and Utility Classes[^]For a preview print in a menory DC and bitblt to an window in onpaint.

C++

WTL

A custom list view control with custom scrollbar control, using WTL

11 Dec 2006 by Shunix

This article is intended to show an opportunity for customizing the list view control (report view, single-line mode) using the custom scrollbar control.

A CWtlPicture Control Based on GDI+

11 Jul 2011 by Ed Gadziemski

CWtlPicture attaches to an owner-drawn picture control and reads, displays, and saves disk or database images

A Developer's Survival Guide to IE Protected Mode

20 May 2007 by Michael Dunn

Busted features? APIs failing? Use this guide to get your IE plugin up and running again in protected mode!

A Document-View foundation for WTL. Part 1

9 Mar 2000 by Sandu Turcan

A library that provides the easiest way to get loosely coupled components.

A fast and lightweight cell control

11 Mar 2008 by xueming.yan

A fast and lightweight cell control for displaying tabular data. The cell is a custom control derived from ATL::CWindow.

A generalized CUpdateUI based on a policy design

21 Jan 2002 by Voinkov

A policy based implementation of UI updating that accumulates and executes UI changes.

A Gradient Static Control

6 Oct 2003 by Ilya Solnyshkin

A Static control with a gradient

A GUI Front-End for Microsoft's Hotfix Checker Utility

6 Dec 2001 by Michael Dunn

This article demonstrates redirecting output of a child process, and displaying a web browser UI using DHTML.

A light wrapper class for GUID

6 Oct 2005 by Jozef Bozek

A CGuid class for manipulating the GUID structure.

A lightweight base class for MDI UI

22 Aug 2004 by fftz

The CMDIBase template provides multiple view UI support for WinCE WTL-based projects.

A little tool to show some system informations

12 May 2007 by Satervalley

This small tool shows some real-time system information, such as network speed, CPU utilization, time period and so on on the screen .

A Memory DC for WTL

10 Mar 2002 by Paul A. Howes

An article detailing a simple memory-based device context for the WTL, to be used when flicker-free double-buffered drawing is desired

A Perl script to update your WTL installation

6 Sep 2000 by Milan Gardian

Notes on updating your WTL installation

A Pocket PC WTL image viewer

13 Dec 2004 by Alain Rist

Some proposed WTL classes and functions at work: CAppWindow, CFullScreenFrame, CStdDialog, CF_DIB clipboard support, and more...

A Remote Windows Mobile Screen Grabber

11 Feb 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

Capture your Windows Mobile device screen via ActiveSync or WMDC.

A Simple Tabbed MDI for WTL

22 Dec 2001 by David Y. Zhao

This is a simple tabbed MDI for WTL

A Technique to Customize the Title Bar of Windows

1 Jul 2003 by Junlei Li

Use an easy-to-use templated class to custom the title bar of windows.

A Time-line control using WTL

23 May 2003 by Tony Ioanides

An alternative approach to selecting date ranges.

A wrapper class for creating a shortcut (.lnk) and a bookmark (.url) and attaching an online icon to it

6 Jul 2008 by jangtimjang

A ready-to-use wrapper class for creating a shortcut (.lnk file) and a bookmark (.url file) and finally attaching an online icon resource to it.

A WTL class for developping OpenGL programs using WTL

1 Oct 2001 by Zilin

A class to develop OpenGL programs which can be easily plugged into your WTL programs

A WTL Dim Edit control

31 Aug 2001 by Paul A. Howes

A WTL adaptation of James Twine's Dim Edit control.

A WTL DocView framework

10 Jan 2006 by Jozef Bozek

Implemetation of a simple DocView framework like MFC.

A WTL Game Loop

27 Apr 2002 by Paul M Watt

A message loop class that is suitable for game programming in WTL.

A WTL Grid

22 Jan 2002 by Noel Frankinet

A WTL grid (really).

A WTL Hunspell-checked Edit Control

21 Jun 2009 by _oti

A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.

A WTL Tab Control for Managing Tab Views

21 Jun 2002 by Stephen Jones

This article describes a tab control that automates the management of tab windows.

A WTL XP Button and Edit Box

12 Sep 2002 by Derick Cyril Thomas

A WTL Implementation of XP Button and Edit Box

A WTL-based Font preview combo box

23 Aug 2000 by Ramon Smits

A font combo box that previews the fonts in the dropdown view

Accelerators and WTL Dialogs

23 Mar 2006 by Rory Buchanan

An article on using accelerators in WTL dialogs.

Access Registry Settings Declaratively

12 Apr 2004 by Lonnie McCullough

A set of macros and classes that allow declarative access to registry settings.

Accessing Excel Spreadsheets via C++

6 Oct 2006 by Michael C. Robert

Demonstrates how to use WTL and C++ to access an Excel spreadsheet using Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Add a WTL MDI window into an ATL Control

11 Sep 2003 by Zhang YanFeng

This article will show you how to make MDI window of WTL into ATL control by using a real world example.

Add zooming to WTL CScrollImpl

2 Nov 2004 by Alain Rist

CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing ATL/WTL Application

30 Sep 2002 by Ernest Laurentin

Shows how to use Microsoft Script Hosting inside existing ATL/WTL Application

after sendmessage to notify main thread to showpage, I found documentcomplete not fired

26 Aug 2013 by findewayz

Hi all, I'm using WTL and COM, I tried to implement refreshing my webpage after reconnect to the internet. I have a thread monitering the net status who will call SendMessage to notify main thread to reload the webpage using Navigate2. Unfortunately,I ran into an odd occurrence.After...

AlphaView

13 Jun 2008 by Noel Frankinet

A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.

An Advanced Windows Hotfix Manager

3 Feb 2002 by Michael Dunn

An advanced utility that scans computers for missing hotfixes, and helps you download and install them.

An ATL Toolbox control like that of VS.NET 2003

4 Oct 2005 by Jozef Bozek

An ATL toolbox control.

An MS Outlook-style mini-calendar control using WTL

5 Jun 2003 by Tony Ioanides

An MS Outlook-style mini-calendar control using WTL

Animating View Transitions on Windows Mobile

5 Jun 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

How to animate child view transitions on a Windows Mobile WTL application.

Another WTL Grid

1 Jun 2003 by Bjornar Henden

A WTL Grid mostly aimed for use against databases.

Anti-aliased lines based on Gupta-Sproull algorithm

8 Feb 2009 by Member 3375334

Hello everyone,i am new to MFC and VC++ programming in general. What i am trying to do right now is write a program that will allow me to draw lines based on a Gupta-Sproull midpoint algorithm. There is Bresenham algorithm but it's different. I...

Anti-aliased lines based on Gupta-Sproull algorithm

8 Feb 2009 by Stuart Dootson

I'd just draw on a plain dialog surface. Create a dialog-based MFC application. Draw your lines and things in the dialog's OnPaint handler. Add button click handlers for the dialog.

API design 101

19 Oct 2009 by ocoudert

There are striking lessons in failed software architectures, and it all starts with API design. I am sharing here my practical experience with C++ projects, but most of these advices also apply to Java.

C++

Windows

WTL

API Hooking revealed part 3 and 4 - Thread Deadlock Detector

31 Mar 2005 by xryl669

The final article about API hooking, with a working example of a thread deadlock detector.

application Icon does not appear in task switcher

28 Jan 2011 by anonymous1310

Hi, I have an application whose icon is appearing in tray and in the title bar but when i press alt+tab the icon of the application is not appearing,there is a blank page icon is coming in place of my icon . Please help me.thank you.

C++

WTL

application Icon does not appear in task switcher

29 Jan 2011 by User 7429338

The title bar and system tray use the 16x16 icon, the alt-tab window uses a 32x32 icon.Does your icon file contain a 32x32 icon?

C++

WTL

application Icon does not appear in task switcher

3 Feb 2011 by DEGROUX

Comment out this line in the PreCreateWindow of your CFrameWnd derived class //cs.lpszClass = AfxRegisterWndClass(0);Michel Degroux

C++

WTL

AppRunner – Simple ‘desktop shortcut’ replacement

8 Feb 2015 by tkontos

A WTL based, XML driven shortcut replacement

Archive class for WTL

14 Jan 2004 by Igor Vigdorchik

A port of MFC CArchive class to simplify serialization in WTL and non-MFC projects

ATL Snapping Framework (Like VC.NET)

23 May 2002 by Eugene Polonsky

Complete implementation of .NET IDE's snapping windows in ATL/WTL

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

atlPath

24 Feb 2006 by lyshsd

ATL/WTL version of Samuel Gonzalo's CPath1.2

Auto Completion ComboBox for WTL

17 Aug 2003 by NormDroid

Implementation of Auto Completion ComboBox for WTL

Auto Value

27 Feb 2004 by c-smile

Auto Value is an implementation of variables having undefined state

AutoCompleteML - auto completion for multiline edit box

14 Oct 2004 by Pavel Martyanov

COM object for easy user input in multiline edit boxes

Automatic Layout of Resizable Dialogs

19 Jan 2006 by Till Krullmann

A WTL extension which introduces layout maps to automatically update the layout in resizable dialogs.

AutoSizeDlg - an autoresizing class for ATL/WTL

16 Jul 2006 by xanatos

AutoSizeDlg - an autoresizing class for ATL/WTL

Bargraph control using WTL

2 Jun 2004 by Igor Vigdorchik

Simple implementation of a bargraph control for graph plotting

Bitmap size in memory

7 Jan 2009 by CPallini

I suppose it depends on color depth... See BITMAP struct definition [^], the bmBitsPixel member looks promising. If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. ...

Bitmap size in memory

4 Dec 2009 by Emilio Garavaglia

In the most of the cases, if you're running more than 256 colors, it will be 32 bits (one processor word, even if the color itself is represented by 3 bytes of the four). Otherwise, for 256 colors, 1 byte;and for 16 colors 1 bit of four different bytes (one per color plane, also named RGBI)

boolean_cast

4 Dec 2005 by mb2sync

Performs conversions between values of type bool, BOOL and VARIANT_BOOL.

Boost.Range support for ATL/WTL CString

2 Sep 2005 by mb2sync

Consistent interfaces to CString using Boost.Range.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

31 Mar 2008 by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

C# Design Patterns: Factory

25 Feb 2010 by micahs

What is the factory design pattern? Well to begin with, it is something that is referenced frequently in software architecture. Functionally, a factory builds an object. More specifically, factories render instances of an abstract class type.

Windows

WTL

C++ Header Guard

17 Mar 2009 by T800G

Create unique preprocessor macros to prevent multiple header inclusion.

C++

WTL

c++ WTL/ATL How to find a window handle from the current process?

19 Apr 2012 by mrbll

I have a library function (that does not know anything about the application its linked to) that sometimes opens a window.If the application's main window is closed while the library window is open, the process gets into a weird state that wont exit, even after the library function widow is...

c++ WTL/ATL How to find a window handle from the current process?

18 Apr 2012 by nv3

You can use the system call EnumWindows to find all of your top-level windows. After your application has closed all its own windows, no other window should remain. If EnumWindows detects anything, then it's probably the additional window that your function has created.If you know the window...

c++ WTL/ATL How to find a window handle from the current process?

18 Apr 2012 by Albert Holguin

You should be able to call AfxGetMainWnd() from the exported function and get the top-level window from the thread calling the exported function (may return NULL if there's no window associated with the thread).See...

C/C++ ODBC Handle Wrappers

2 Aug 2012 by v3nOm_

In order to further explore ODBC and increase my programming experience i was going to put together my own ODBC wrapper classes. Below are the wrapper classes i have made so far and i'm curious on any problems anyone happens to see with it :) thanks for the help and cheerstemplate

C/C++ ODBC Handle Wrappers

5 Aug 2012 by armagedescu

As suggestions. If you return bool then you have to return false/true instead of FALSE/TRUE, because you are not using BOOL. Second, don't name the class Handle. Instead of CConnectionHandle use CConnection name, or even better CDatabase. Instead ir CStatementHandle use CStatement or CQuery, and...

C/C++ ODBC Handle Wrappers

3 Aug 2012 by v3nOm_

I do appreciate your feedback and understand I am missing a lot :) I think it's better to get advice early then to late and have a lot of rewriting :) thanks for the advice and your time

C/C++ ODBC Handle Wrappers

3 Aug 2012 by JackDingler

My advice is to test the code yourself first, to see if it solves the problem you are addressing.I've had little need in the last decade, to do much with the ODBC layer. Using Wizard generated code such as MFC generated classes based on CRecordset, save a lot of time, and perform well enough...

Caching in DataGrid while performing Insert, Edit and Update operations

6 Jan 2003 by anandaji

This article shows how we can use caching while performing insert, edit and update functions in the DataGrid.

Calling a COM interface from a worker thread

13 Aug 2009 by sashoalm

I'm automating Word and when I call a function that doesn't return for a long time (for example a call to app.Run(_T("FilePrint"));) it tends to freeze the UI of my app until it returns from the call, so I tried to run this code from a worker...

Calling a COM interface from a worker thread

13 Aug 2009 by Stuart Dootson

Could you do all of the automation, including creation of the Word object, on the worker thread?Basically you're running foul of COM single-threaded apartments and things, I think. This article[^] explains them well. Java, Basic, who cares - it's...

Calling a COM interface from a worker thread

3 Aug 2010 by Jörgen Sigvardsson

You need to marshal calls across threads/apartments. See this[^] article for different ways to perform cross thread marshalling. CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream() would probably be the easiest approach. Look it up in the MSDN documentation. It's quite easy to use.

Calling CDC::FrameRect() or CDC::Rectangle() or CDC::FillRect() clears the text drawn by CDC::DrawText()

16 Jan 2014 by Singh, Yashpal

Hi,I design a custom TreeView control that wraps the text string of a tree item when the tree is resized, and to achieve that I draw the tree items in OnPaint() handler, I use CDC::DrawText() to draw the text strings and CDC::FillRect() on the same rectangle to draw a selected tree item. In...

Calling CDC::FrameRect() or CDC::Rectangle() or CDC::FillRect() clears the text drawn by CDC::DrawText()

16 Jan 2014 by Richard MacCutchan

See the remarks section under CDC::Rectangle[^], particularly The interior of the rectangle is filled using the current brush.. So you need to add the text as the very last action.

Calling functions in an executable or accessing its global variables from a DLL

5 Sep 2008 by Ben Burnett

I was wondering if anyone knew of a straight forward way of calling (non-exported) functions in an executable from a DLL. We are building a, for lack of a better name, private plug-in system that will grant the plug-in access to all of a...

Calling functions in an executable or accessing its global variables from a DLL

5 Sep 2008 by Garth J Lancaster

oohhh .. thats a hard one. Unless your executable exposes some sort of API I think you'd have to resort to using injection/hooking from the dll (which I presume is in another process) to access the functions in the executable, even then ......

Calling functions in an executable or accessing its global variables from a DLL

29 Dec 2010 by mbue

Use COM and you have to export only one function like DllGetClassObject to connect to all your interfaces.

Can I use select instead Sleep?

16 Oct 2009 by hanlei0000000009

I need my program to sleep 1 microsecond, but Sleep() can not do this. So, can I use select() instead of Sleep() to do this? timeout.tv_sec=0;timeout.tv_usec=1;FD_ZERO(&readfd);ret=select(0,&readfd,NULL,NULL,&timeout);Does the above approach have any problems?

Can I use select instead Sleep?

17 Oct 2009 by Rajesh R Subramanian

hanlei0000000009 wrote:I need my program sleep 1 microsecond, but Sleep() can not do this.Neither can any other API do this (under Windows). Windows was never designed to provide this kind of functionality (it is not a real-time OS). If you use something like Sleep(2), your program may sleep for 2 m

Can I use select instead Sleep?

16 Oct 2009 by Stuart Dootson

Yeah, that's not happening...Why 1 microsecond, FFS? What are you trying to do? Because there may well be a better way.

Can I use select instead Sleep?

19 Dec 2011 by Prashant Srivastava LKO

HiSystem.Thre...

Can I use select instead Sleep?

19 Dec 2011 by Chuck O'Toole

Just because the API definition of select() takes its timeout value in microseconds, that doesn't mean that every operating system that supports the Socket API has to provide microsecond resultion on their timers. In fact, almost no operating system does.As Rajesh said, Windows (Unix,...

Can't reference "IID_IIMAGELIST" on Visual studio 2008

11 Apr 2011 by naaryan

Hi,I have been using Visual studio .Net 2003 with WTL library,But now i need to port our running code to Visual studio 2008 with WTL library.I am getting compiler error "error C2065: 'IID_IImageList' : undeclared identifier" on Visual studio 2008 but the same code running fine on Visual...

C++/CLI

WTL

Visual-Studio

Can't reference "IID_IIMAGELIST" on Visual studio 2008

11 Apr 2011 by Debojyoti Majumder

In your project settings, check your "Additional Dependency".I guess you are missing some .lib files there ( refer to old project settings.)

C++/CLI

WTL

Visual-Studio

cannot open include file 'atlres.h'

19 Dec 2008 by josip cagalj

Hi to all. I'm trying to open some project wroted using WTL. When I try to rebuild it (using VS2008 on Win XP) I get the compile error as above. Now, "atlres.h" file is in directory which I added to my project settings properly and I don't know...

cannot open include file 'atlres.h'

19 Dec 2008 by Stuart Dootson

I think you need to add the WTL include directory to the include directory path for the resource compiler. Right-click on the project, select 'Properties', select Resources->General in the properties window and add the WTL include directory to...

cannot open include file 'atlres.h'

7 Sep 2011 by Arun Parthasarathy

Plesase go to the Tools->Options menu.Options dialog opens.Choose projects and solutions.Choose VC++ directories.In "show directories for : ", choose "Include Files".Here add the directory path where your file exits.and give ok.Now try to build your project.

CAppBar, a WTL implementation of AppBar

14 Sep 2005 by Neil Yao

A reusable WTL base class to support AppBar