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MFC	Getting BN_DOUBLECLICK to Work for Buttons 25 Jun 2002 Updated: 25 Jun 2002 Rating: 4.18/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,073 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. BN_DOUBLECLICKED doesn't get received
	Getting a CF_DIB or CF_METAFILEPICT from the clipboard and displaying it 11 Dec 2002 Updated: 11 Dec 2002 Rating: 3.82/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,102 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Example code to display a CF_DIB or CF_METAFILEPICT from the clipboard
	Using a Doc/View exported from a dynamically loaded DLL 15 Nov 2001 Updated: 15 Nov 2001 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 116,257 Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 7,061 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on on how to load DLLs which export doc/views.
	MFC Document/View documentation and enhancements 15 Oct 2003 Updated: 15 Oct 2003 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 53 Popularity: 8.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 198,488 Bookmarked: 160 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An extension to the MSDN documentation and a list of tips and tricks you can do with the MFC Doc/View architecture to enhance your applications.
	An examination of menus from a beginner's point of view 22 Jun 2004 Updated: 22 Jun 2004 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 8.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 332,120 Bookmarked: 149 Downloaded: 3,127 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A discussion of the OS menu object from a beginner's viewpoint. I take you through the basics to a more advanced understanding of menus and how to interact with them from code.
	Owner drawn menus in two lines of code 2 Nov 2004 Updated: 3 Feb 2005 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 169,863 Bookmarked: 80 Downloaded: 3,623 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Another method of implementing owner drawn menus, which only requires two lines of code by you the coder.
	Scrollbars, using the WS_HSCROLL and WS_VSCROLL styles 15 May 2002 Updated: 13 Jun 2002 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 175,762 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 3,495 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use a CWnd's default scrollbars and to setup the thumb size correctly
	An MFC ActiveX control to display trays 15 Nov 2001 Updated: 15 Nov 2001 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 84,580 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,361 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An MFC ActiveX control to display trays and samples, with selection and cherry picking properties
	Setting the Default Printer Programmatically in an MFC Application 2 May 2002 Updated: 11 Jun 2002 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 241,894 Bookmarked: 50 Downloaded: 4,132 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to change the default printer in MFC and save/restore this setting to/from the registry
	Example of How to Print a Long CString across Multiple Pages of Output using the MFC Print Architecture 19 Jun 2002 Updated: 19 Jun 2002 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 126,929 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 2,385 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An example project of how to break up a long string that you want to print across multiple pages
	An Easy Way to Customise the Default Print Dialog in an MFC App 16 Jul 2002 Updated: 16 Jul 2002 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 230,995 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 2,254 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A quick and easy way to customise the CPrintDialog object in an MFC application
	Printing tips and tricks from the trenches 20 Jun 2002 Updated: 25 Jul 2002 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 273,024 Bookmarked: 104 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A selection of printing tips and tricks that can help make printing in an MFC application easier
	How to print the content of a Rich Edit Control 26 Dec 2002 Updated: 26 Dec 2002 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 175,630 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 2,511 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rich Edit controls are great until you want to print the output. Help is at hand
	MultiPage PrintPreview Enhancements for MFC Doc/View Applications 23 Apr 2002 Updated: 27 Apr 2002 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 165,887 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 5,190 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to improve the standard MFC print preview options to allow preview from 1 to 9 pages at a time
	MFC Print preview extension DLL for dialogs 4 Dec 2002 Updated: 26 Dec 2002 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 276,665 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 9,579 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An MFC extension library, so your dialogs can have easy print/print preview support.
	Using CRgn with print preview 3 Nov 2003 Updated: 3 Nov 2003 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,824 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CRgn objects need translating, to work correctly in print preview.
	Enabling context help in a PropertySheet embedded in another PropertySheet 14 Jun 2005 Updated: 14 Jun 2005 Rating: 4.31/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.60 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,591 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Context sensitive help does not work for a PropertySheet embedded within the page of another PropertySheet.
	Code to Allow You to Print the Content of a CTreeCtrl 4 Mar 2003 Updated: 16 Mar 2003 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 143,467 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 2,974 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A base class that provides all the functions you need to print a CTreeCtrl
	MFC extension library - A plugin to handle owner drawn menus 11 May 2004 Updated: 11 May 2004 Rating: 4.41/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 76,192 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 1,615 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Continuation of the Plugin Architecture series
	MFC Extension library : Enhanced print preview plug-in 24 May 2004 Updated: 24 May 2004 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,803 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 1,798 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MFC Extension library : Enhanced print preview plug-in
	MFC extension library : Single instance Plug-In 8 Jun 2004 Updated: 8 Jun 2004 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 51,113 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 905 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Single instance Plug-In
	An MFC extension library to enable DLL plug-in technology for your application using MESSAGE_MAPs 2 Oct 2002 Updated: 8 Jun 2004 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 7.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 578,071 Bookmarked: 238 Downloaded: 8,636 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A plug-in architecture which allows you to write plug-in DLLs for your application and extend/modify its functionality.
	A matrix class with serialization and advanced input/output functions 26 Jun 2002 Updated: 12 Aug 2002 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 305,608 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 3,472 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Matrix class derived from CObject with serialization and operator overloading
	How to enable context sensitive help for individual controls on a FormView 17 Jul 2002 Updated: 25 Oct 2002 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 122,645 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 962 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Context sensitive help does not distinguish individual controls on a FormView. This sorts that problem
	Simplified MFC helpfiles AfxCore.rtf and AfxPrint.rtf 12 Mar 2002 Updated: 12 Mar 2002 Rating: 3.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 53,163 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 564 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Repleacement AfxCore and AfxPrint RTF files for new projects
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C++	Solution to the preview problem while playing a metafile in a CPreviewDC 26 Jan 2005 Updated: 26 Jan 2005 Rating: 2.14/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,730 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Playing a Metfile into a CPreviewDC in print preview can cause further drawing operations to not work correctly.

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Roger Allen

Software Developer (Senior) Sirius Analytical Instruments

United Kingdom

A research and development programmer working for a pharmaceutical instrument company for the past 17 years.

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