cursor topics and editors

how to create my own custom cursors etc...

1. Custom Cursors with Paint.net
2. How to get a Yellow Circle Around Your Cursor
3. RealWorld Cursor Editor 2013.1
4. RealWorld Icon Editor 2010.1
5. RealWorld Cursor Editor 2013.1
6. How To Get A Yellow Circle Around Your Mouse Cursor

MFC message mapping

MFC message mapping

1. Message Map Macros (MFC)
2. About Messages and Message Queues
3. Message Maps (MFC)
4. Message Map Macros (MFC)
5. CWnd Class

Provides the base functionality of all window classes in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library.

6. Module 2: Getting Started with Visual C++ 6.0 AppWizard 1
7. Module 2: Getting Started with Visual C++ 6.0 AppWizard 2
8. Windows Message Handling - Part 1
9. Windows Message Handling - Part 2
10. Message Management
11. Message Cracker Wizard for Win32 SDK Developers

Visual C++ /MFC resource file

Visual C++ /MFC resource file

1. AUTOCHECKBOX control
2. Common Control Parameters
3. About Resource Files
4. Resource-Definition Statements
5. Preprocessor Operators

Error: RC2135 file not found: 0 PropertySheet C:\Demo\PropertySheet\PropertySheet\Prop.rc 97

when I compile PropertySheet Dialog resource file, I got this error:

Error RC2135 file not found: 0 PropertySheet C:\Demo\PropertySheet\PropertySheet\Prop.rc 97

1. RC2135 file not found error
2. Error RC 2135 file not found
3. RC2135 file not found after edit resource.
4. compile error 1>ReClassEx.rc(1): error RC2135: file not found: Visual #53

Error RC2104: undefined keyword or key name: LISTBOX1 PropertySheet C:\Demo\PropertySheet\PropertySheet\Prop.rc 107

5. Resource Compiler Error RC2104

error RC2247: Symbol name too long (winnt.h)

6. error RC2247: Symbol name too long (winnt.h)
7. VS2008 resource view crashes with RC2247 when prsht.h included as a resource include.
8. RC2247 : Cannot open Rc file : Resource explorer cannot load resource ; Load failed

my case is : I should have LISTBOX in .rc definition file, but I put LISTBOX1 instead.

9. VS2008 resource view crashes with RC2247 when prsht.h included as a resource include.
10. error RC2247: Symbol name too long (winnt.h)
11. Resource Compiler error RC2247 SYMBOL name too long
12. Migrating old project to VS2008 - resource file errors
13. Upgraded to Visual Studio 2010
14. windows - RC2247 : Cannot open Rc file : Resource explorer cannot load resource ; Load failed -

this trick worth a further look:

#define apstudio_hidden_symbols
#include "windows.h"
#include "prsht.h"
#undef apstudio_hidden_symbols

15. 【Visual Studio】【两种方法解决】error rc2247: SYMBOL name too long
16. 汉字的Unicode范围
17. 打开rc文件时出现“SYMBOL name too long”错误
18. [Windows] VS打开资源文件(.rc)时显示 error RC2247 : SYMBOL name too long
19. EU-can-code
20. error RC2247 : SYMBOL name too long[ZHUAN]

smallest circle topics

smallest circle topics

1. Coding Challenge: Smallest Circle Problem
2. Visual Studio Custom Tools - Make It Smarter
3. Demo Data

When you are about to present an application/feature to a potential customer or future user, the data you are using is very important. Missing details, too few records, repetitive info or gibberish can create bad impression. Wrong display can ruin all your effort you put into your code, after all what people see is the surface...

In this article you will see a tool, that I used to randomize usable data...

4. Color Scheme Selector
5. VSMinifier2013Plus
6. Implementing ICustomFormatter in C#

How To deliver MFC application?

How To deliver MFC application?

under my Laptop Alpha, I find all MFC dll under this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\redist\x86

there are two DLLs:mfc140u.dll and mfcm140u.dll.

1. Determining Which DLLs to Redistribute

vcruntimeversion.dll: Runtime Library for native code. Applications that use the normal C and C++ language startup and termination services.

mfcversion.dll : Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) Library. Applications that use the MFC Library.

mfcversionu.dll: MFC Library with Unicode support. Applications that use the MFC Library and require Unicode support.

2. Redistributing the MFC Library
3. Redistributing Visual C++ Files

To deploy redistributable Visual C++ files, you can use the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages (VCRedist_x86.exe, VCRedist_x64.exe, or VCRedist_arm.exe) that are included in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio 2017, these files can be found in the Program Files[ (x86)]\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\edition\VC\Redist\MSVC\lib-version folder, where edition is the Visual Studio edition installed, and lib-version is the version of the libraries to redistribute.

In Visual Studio 2015, these files can be found under your Visual Studio installation directory in Program Files [(x86)]\Microsoft Visual Studio version\VC\redist\locale\.

Another option is to use redistributable merge modules (.msm files), which in Visual Studio 2017 can be found in the Program Files [(x86)]\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\edition\VC\Redist\MSVC\lib-version\MergeModules\ folder. In Visual Studio 2015 these can be found in Program Files [(x86)]\Common Files\Merge Modules\.

It's also possible to directly install redistributable Visual C++ DLLs in the application local folder, which is the folder that contains your executable application file. For servicing reasons, we do not recommend that you use this installation location.

4. MFC Library Versions
5. Redistributing the MFC Library
6. Regular DLL using: MFC Shared vs MFC statically linked
7. Migrating Projects Created with Visual Studio Versions Earlier than 2010
8. 20.7. Use MFC in static library or use MFC in shared DLL?
9. Create projects easily with private MFC, ATL and CRT assemblies
10. Threads with MFC
11. Unicode, MBCS and Generic text mappings
12. An MFC Curve Control
13. MFC under the hood
14. Deploying Controls to VS.NET ToolBox Programatically
15. Deployment Examples
16. Deploying Native Desktop Applications (Visual C++)

Layout manager research topics-C++ related

1. Persistence of Window State and Appearance for .NET Applications
2. Layout Manager for Dialogs, Formviews, DialogBars and PropertyPages
3. MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing
4. WPF content model and layout
5. WPF Layouts - A Visual Quick Start
6. The Ultimate Toolbox Layout Manager

above post deserves more review.

7. FreeLayout: A New Java Layout
8. BoxPlanner - Simple Layout Algorithm
9. Fun with Physics: Implementing a Physics based layout manager
10. Sharp Layout
11. I do not find the atlapp.h file in the installation any place!
12. A Few Classes to Work With Date, Time, Datetime and Timezone Data
13. Fun with Physics: Implementing a Physics based layout manager
14. Designing the Layout of Windows Forms using a TableLayoutPanel, with auto-expand panels
15. Creating a wizard layout using C#
16. Sequential Structure Layout For Speed
17. Part I: Unifying Web and Windows Form design and layout
18. Marc Clifton on GitHub
19. Part II: Web & Window Form Unification: Synchronous And Asynchronous Event Handling For Controls Created At Runtime
20. Persistence of Window State and Appearance for .NET Applications
21. Layout Persistence for your Forms including all of their subcontrols
22. SolidWidgets Layout Manager Tutorial - Part 1

good points in comment section.

23. EvaLayout, Lay It Be!
24. Control Positioning and Sizing using a C++ Helper Class
25. FlowPanel
26. Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 – SizeDefinition
27. Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container - Second Version
28. Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container
29. AutoLayout and UILabel Don't Get Along
30. Dockable CAB Workspaces
31. Ruler Control
32. A Professional Ribbon You Will Use (Now with orb!)
33. MultisplitContainer - A FlowlayoutPanel Providing Sizeable Contents
34. ListView Layout Manager
35. WPF Layout to Layout Transitions
36. Customizable Window Layouts
37. WPF Tutorial : Layout-Panels-Containers & Layout Transformation
38. Planning the form layout in VB.NET
39. Layout Manager for Prism v2

windows resizing research

40. EasySize - Dialog resizing in no time!
41. CCreditsCtrl - An advanced About Box
42. Moveable Resizable Objects
43. X-Window Manager like dragging and resizing of windows
44. A Resizable Graphical Rectangle
45. Resizing Controls When Resizing Form
46. Smooth Resize and Reposition
47. Automatic Layout of Resizable Dialog

research: windows resizing

48. Automatic resizing controls
49. Runtime Control Resizer
50. VB.NET - Dynamically Resize and Reposition All Controls when Form is Resized, Including Font Sizes
51. Simple and more powerful resizable dialog
52. WTL CPropertySheet as a Resizable View
53. Control Resizing on a UserControl in WinForms
54. Resize/Reposition the Controls in a Dialog at your Pleasure
55. Allow the User to Resize Controls at Runtime
56. Resizing Win32 Dialogs with DialogBox() and Dialog Resources

MFC CTreeCtrl instructions

MFC CTreeCtrl instructions

when I build a demo project on CTreeCtrl, I added treectrl.h file into .rc resource file. it caused compilation errors:

Error RC2188 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\afxcmn3.inl(502) : warning RC4011: identifier truncated to '_CSTRING_DISABLE_NARROW_WIDE_CO' TreeControl C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\atlalloc.h 665

ErrorRC2188 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\atlalloc.h(609) : error RC2188: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\atlalloc.h(640) : warning RC4011: identifier truncated to '_ATL_USE_WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_' TreeControl C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\atlconv.h 22

then I googled and find this post. it gives me a clue:

1. Warning RC4011 and error RC2188

I told you in my first reply, you have to check all the headers included by the resource file, some of them cannot be parsed by the resource compiler and the need to be excluded by using #ifndef RC_INVOKED.

You have 2 headers that may cause this problem in your resource file: resacz99.h and widgets.h. One of them must somehow include ATL headers.

2. VS Preview 2019 vcruntime.h causes RC4011 warning
3. What is this error: invalid preprocessor command 'include_next' ?

Thanks for your hint.

I found an include on one resource file that made use of stdio.h . Removing that dependence, the warning vanished.

then I compiled this project again and ran into another error:

Error RC1004 unexpected end of file found TreeControl C:\Demo\TreeControl\TreeControl\ids.h 21

then I googled and find another wonderful link. tested the solution and it works well. amazing internet!

Full Error Name: Resource Compiler Fatal Error RC1004 unexpected end of file found

To Fix: Be sure to hit enter at the end of the last line in both the resource.h and the resource.rc files.

1. Complier Error: RC1004

good research on CTreeCtrl.

1. CDeviceTree
2. Using CTreeCtrl:: gateway to articles
3. Using Tree Controls:: detailed steps
4. Tree Control Styles
5. Tree-View Control Window Styles
6. Tree Control Notification Messages::Mcirosodt Official Message List

it lists all notification message designed for this CTreeCtrl control.

7. TN061: ON_NOTIFY and WM_NOTIFY Messages

it has detailed instructions on mapping message handlers.

8. Module 5b: The Modal Dialog and Windows Common Controls 3

the bottom section touched on CTreeCtrl and Notification Message. needs to take a look:

The Tree Control

The list control and the tree control have some things in common: they can both use the same image list, and they share some of the same notification messages. Their methods of identifying items are different, however. The tree control uses an HTREEITEM handle instead of an integer index. To insert an item, you call the InsertItem() member function, but first you must build up a TV_INSERTSTRUCT structure that identifies (among other things) the string, the image list index, and the handle of the parent item (which is null for top-level items). As with list controls, infinite customization possibilities are available for the tree control. For example, you can allow the user to edit items and to insert and delete items.

The WM_NOTIFY Message

The original Windows controls sent their notifications in WM_COMMAND messages. The standard 32-bit wParam and lParam message parameters are not sufficient, however, for the information that a common control needs to send to its parent. Microsoft solved this "bandwidth" problem by defining a new message, WM_NOTIFY. With the WM_NOTIFY message, wParam is the control ID and lParam is a pointer to an NMHDR structure, which is managed by the control. This C structure is defined by the following code:

typedef struct tagNMHDR { HWND hwndFrom; // handle to control sending the message UINT idFrom; // ID of control sending the message UINT code; // control-specific notification code } NMHDR;

Many controls, however, send WM_NOTIFY messages with pointers to structures larger than NMHDR. Those structures contain the three members above plus appended control-specific members. Many tree control notifications, for example, pass a pointer to an NM_TREEVIEW structure that contains TV_ITEM structures, a drag point, and so forth. When ClassWizard maps a WM_NOTIFY message, it generates a pointer to the appropriate structure.

9. Thread: CTreeCtrl and DeleteItem notification
11. MFC Controls: The Tree Control
12. CTreeCtrl Notification Message
13. CTreeCtrl, TrackPopupMenu and CCmdTarget
14. MFC-- manually call message response function CTreeCtrl
15. CTreeCtrl使用演示
16. CTreeCtrl使用演示

CTabCtrl programming and other good MFC website

CTabCtrl programming and other good MFC website

1. MFC:a German guy's collection
2. CListCtrl Notes
3. About Messages and Message Queues
4. Message Management

MFC ClistCtrl topics

MFC ClistCtrl topics

1. CListCtrl For Beginners
2. Other C++ Sites: good list to take a look
3. Creating an MFC Application Without the AppWizard
4. Resource Editors (C++)

how to open the file in resource view.

5. CListCtrl and Displaying a Tooltip
6. CListCtrl and Cell Navigation

I got error when I compiled this project in Visual Studio 2017.

Error CVT1100 duplicate resource. type:MANIFEST, name:1, language:0x0409 ListCtrl_CellNav C:\Users\chris_alpha\Downloads\ListCtrl_CellNav\ListCtrl_CellNav\CVTRES 1

I tested this solution:

This error message shows the given resource was specified more than once. I would suggest you try to set Embed Manifest to No through Project > Properties... > Configuration Properties > Manifest Tools > Input and Output , or try to comment/remove the manifest from .rc file.

another solution: edit .rc file and remove manifest file

I know this is a late response, but I had the same issue. I found that if I removed the manifest.xml or whatever extension from the .RC2 file and explicitly put in under MANIFEST TOOLS> INPUT AND OUTPUT>

Additional Manifest Files: _____ full path \ manifest.xml

Everything works as it should. This applies for Visual Studio 2013.

7. fatal error CVT1100: duplicate resource. type:MANIFEST, name:1,
8. Solve CVT1100: duplicate resource. type:MANIFEST issue in Visual Studio for MFC/C++

a good comment needs attention:

The error is often cause by two resources having the same resource ID. i.e. the same source resource (.rc) values in a (downloaded) library as in your main application.

This needs to be fixed by making sure any included resources (from a library) do not conflict with your main program resources. A quick edit of the ID numbers will fix the problem (don't forget to alter the next issue number at bottom to the resource file!),

For our own libraries we ensure they all use different ranges to the main application.

9. Understanding Manifest Generation for C/C++ Programs


10. Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects
11. ListControl: on YouTube.com
12. MFC Virtual List Control
13. MFC Controls: The List Control
14. About Tooltip & CListCtrl
15. /Clistctrl sample.md on GitHub
16. How to add BCGControlBar/BCGSuite for MFC controls to dialogs

demo steps on how to add these controls into project

17. CListCtrl Class

Requirements: Header: afxcmn.h

18. Using CListCtrl
19. MFC - List Control
20. Using the List Control

this project is very good example to learn CListCtrl basics. when I compiled this project, I got this errors when I used static MFC library.

Error C1189 #error: Building MFC application with /MD[d] (CRT dll version) requires MFC shared dll version. Please #define _AFXDLL or do not use /MD[d] ListCtrlDemo c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio\2017\enterprise\vc\tools\msvc\14.16.27023\atlmfc\include\afx.h 24

my solution is tested the same with this post:

In my experience is a two ways step. suppose You want STATIC linking: a) set "Use MFC in a Static Library" b) add: #define _AFXDLL 1 in stdafx.h works on VS 2012

21. error Please #define _AFXDLL or do not use /MD[d] occurs even after making changes in Project Properties
22. CListCtrl and Grouping Rows
23. CListCtrl and Displaying a Tooltip
24. CListCtrl and sorting rows
25. Searching for a reliable hardware ID
26. CListCtrl and sorting rows
27. Using the List Control
28. TN035: Using Multiple Resource Files and Header Files with Visual C++
29. What are the macros in resource.h used for?
30. Need understanding of the code
31. Localizing resources problem
32. Microsoft Visual C++ generated resource script
33. fatal error:can not open afxres.h file
34. MFC中的Resource.h文件理解