CListOptionsCtrl v1.22 An MFC class to provide a properties browser control

Welcome to CListOptionsCtrl, a control which implements a properties browser control similar to the properties browser in Visual Basic. In addition to Boolean values, it also allows edit boxes, combo boxes, file browser, folder browsers, color browsers, font browsers, font name combo boxes, general opaque objects, date controls, time controls and IP address controls to be included in the list control. Included below is a snapshot showing the demo application and what the control looks like

The enclosed zip file contains the CListOptionsCtrl source code and a simple dialog based application which exercises the class.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

V1.0 (5 December 2001)

• Initial public release.

V1.1 (13 January 2002)

• Made _ListOptionsItemData structure globally available and renamed it to CListOptionsItemData.
• Each child control class now is initialized with the index of the list view control at which it is created. This allows added flexibility in what a child control can do.
• Added a method to add an "Opaque Browser" to the list options control. An Opaque Browser is where the list options control allows a end user specified structure to be edited by the list options control without it explicitly knowing what it is editing. A standard "..." browse button is used and virtual functions are used to allow end user code to implement the required "browsing" functionality at the right time.
• Added a WM_SIZE handler to allow the class to work correctly where the containing view or dialog resizes it for layout reasons.
• Fixed a problem in CListOptionsCtrl::OnKillFocus which was not checking the value of GetSelectedItem before using it
• Updated copyright messages in code and in documentation

V1.11 (23 January 2002)

• Improved the "Opaque Browser" support to allow the two runtime classes to be specified e.g. you can have a combo box in addition to a button.

V1.12 (31 May 2002)

• Color is now optionally drawn in the icon for color browser items

V1.13 (1 June 2002)

• Moved application and code to VC 6 to allow item 2 below.
• Now fully supports the CDateTimeCtrl for editing of dates and times

V1.14 (2 June 2002)

• Now fully supports the CIPAddressCtrl for editing of IP addresses.

V1.15 (17 October 2002)

• Changed function "BrowserForOpaque" to "BrowseForOpaque"

V1.16 (5 May 2004)

• Fixed some compiler warnings when the code is compiled using VC 7.x. Please note that to implement these fixes, the code will now require the Platform SDK to be installed if you compile the code on VC 6.

V1.17 (26 November 2004)

• Fixed a bug where in place editing would fail on a multiple monitor setup when the listoptions control was on a monitor which had negative coordinates relative to the primary display

V1.18 (3 May 2006)

• Updated the copyright details.
• Control now allows the per item text to be Bold, italic or underlined or any combination of the three.
• Optimized the construction of member variables in all classes
• Inlined the virtual destructors.
• Provided a set of macros which allow the code to be easily added to an extension DLL.
• Control now uses WM_USER instead of WM_APP for private messages
• Prompt and value text color and background color can also be customized.
• Updated documentation to use the same style as the web site.
• Did a spell check of the documentation.

V1.19 (8 May 2006)

• Removed unnecessary message map for CListOptionsSpinCtrl WM_CHAR
• Removed unnecessary message map for CListOptionsBrowseButton WM_CHAR
• Reworked CListOptionsDateCtrl::GetDisplayText to handle variable length data
• Reworked CListOptionsTimeCtrl::GetDisplayText to handle variable length data
• Removed unnecessary message map for CListOptionsTimeCtrl WM_CREATE
• CListOptionsEdit::GetBrowseForFolderCaption(), CListOptionsEdit::GetBrowseForFileCaption() and CListOptionsEdit::GetFileExtensionFilter() now use string resources instead of string literals.

V1.20 (7 July 2006)

• Code now uses newer C++ style casts instead of C style casts.
• Removed various unused constructors and destructors in the sample app's code.
• Updated code to compile cleanly using VC 2005.

V1.21 (23 December 2007)

• Updated copyright details.
• Removed VC 6 style AppWizard comments from the code.
• Optimized CListOptionsItemData constructor code
• Boolean member variables of CListOptionsItemData have now been made "bool" instead of "BOOL"
• Fixed an issue where if you create a combo box with a style of CBS_DROPDOWN instead of CBS_DROPDOWNLIST, then the combo box would not be properly deactivated when it loses focus to a control outside of the ListOptionsCtrl while the cursor is in the combo box edit field. Thanks to Tobias Wolf for reporting this issue.
• Fixed a crash where you select a combo box item, select something in it and then hit tab.
• Focus is now correctly transferred to a list options button if you hit tab on a list options combo box.

V1.22 (15 June 2008)

• Updated copyright details
• Code now compiles cleanly using Code Analysis (/analyze)
• Updated code to compile correctly using _ATL_CSTRING_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS define
• The code now only supports VC 2005 or later.
• Replaced all calls to CopyMemory with memcpy