Wow, your reply makes me really interested to try ultraeidt, now. :laugh: UE should hire you as a marketing guy.

yes, it introduced a very interesting view: Minimap, a zoomed view of the whole text file.

I even followed your link before I realized that's a joke :^)

after reading the last several replies, I guess I should repeat: I am asking for UI, not functions. I used UE for some time many years ago, does it have a decent UI nowadays?

For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

I'm going to add more code into WM_PAINT hander, but I'm afraid to add to much to recude the performace. I need a benchmark value to test if too much cpu tick is spended. Anybody has a value to share? I know it depends on the different situation, but,.. I still like to see a estimated value.:confused:

ColumnHeader is the closest one that I've found, but it seems that it's conbined with ListView. I needs columnheader that I can set its location, size.

I'd like to use owner_draw on a button, but I'd like to draw a little bit and let windows draw the left. How can I do this?

GREAT! it makes sense.

I see some MFC macro use do{}while(0), for example #define AfxOutputDebugString(lpsz) \ do \ { \ USES_CONVERSION; \ _RPT0(_CRT_WARN, W2CA(lpsz)); \ } while (0) #else why use this kind of technique?

You are correct, I noticed the habaviors now. thank you, I should investigate more before I ask.

Do you noticed that the mouse pointer will hide when you are editing in a richedit control? Move your mouse pointer inside the rectangle of a rich edit control, input some characters, then the mouse pointer disappear! Why?

In VS install directory, there're some files(.cpp, .h) seems to be source code of MFC. So can I put them back into VC and compile them?

I heard someone talks about 'Factory' pattern, but in the GoF book, I just find 'Abstract Factory' & 'Factory Method' pattern. Is there really a pattern named 'Factory', or it's just something in Java?

yes, maybe it's a good choice. I also think about naming the website with a country specific domain like codeABC.us not codeABC.com. Maybe only in that way I can get more available domains.

Your ID make me think about codematrix.com, but unfortunately...:((

Some friends are talking about setting up a website focused on VC programming(mainly dicussion board, articles, blogs), just like codeproject.com. But it will be much smaller and non-english. So what's the nice domain name? What we are thinking about is something like joycode.com, zerobug.com, which will lead people to think about coding and feel sweat (or funny?) at the same time. Joycode.com is best, but it's taken. Any other ideas?

Ashley van Gerven wrote:

code- ? HM-soft

I think code is better than soft, there're too many website named abcsoft.com nowadays.

class CSomeObject : public CObject { //... }; CSomeObject *pObject = new CSomeObject; CSomeObject *pSave = pObject; //.. //some other operation, the pObject may be deleted or not //but pSave don't know what happened But now I want to use the pointer of pSave, can I verify if pSave is valid or not before I use it? try/catch? or any method else? -- modified at 23:26 Tuesday 13th June, 2006

I'm using VC6 and I changed my code into unicode, but when I try to debug some function, I find that I can't see the CString any more, it always shows the first character. So, how can I see the unicode CString when debugging?