Catch22

There are so many large and bloated applications around today that most people just assume that this is normal and quite willingly put up with poor performance and having to buy larger harddrives.

This article will teach you the techniques used to insert one or more buttons into the title bar (caption area) of any window.

The first tutorial I wrote about cards.dll described how to use the exported card-drawing functions ( cdtInit , cdtDraw etc).

(Part 2 - Algorithms and Techniques) So, you already know how to load and view a 4Gb file because you’ve just finished reading Part 1 of this article series.

Does anyone else miss the old style Windows 3.1 directory list boxes?

This tutorial will show you how to implement a drop-down list of all the logical drives installed on a Windows system.

This is quite a short tutorial.

This article came about due to interest in the way my HexEdit application manages large files, but also my desire to document what I consider to be the core technology behind HexEdit.

The aim of this article is to describe exactly how to use cards.dll, the dynamic link library that has shipped with all versions of windows since version 3.0.

Updated 5 Jan 2006 I’ve added a new sourcecode download from L.D.

This tutorial will show you how to print a correctly, including how to calculate the page margins.

Enumerating fonts can be a little confusing, and unless you want to enumerate all fonts on your system, can be a little more difficult than MSDN suggests.

This article will describe one method of implementing masked edit controls.

This tutorial will show you how to insert a button into the non-client area of an edit control.

Introduction This page presents a few win32 programming tips that I have picked up whilst learning to program Windows.