The Old New Thing

October 16, 2003 - The Old New Thing

Scrollbars redux: Part 12

October 16, 2003 Oct 16, 2003 10/16/03
Raymond Chen
Reader Jeff Miller added Word-style scroll tips to our sample scrollbar program. Here's how he did it: A tracking tooltip is used to display the scroll tip because we don't want the tooltip to do automatic positioning or automatic show/hide. When a tracking scroll occurs...

The much-misunderstood "nop" action

October 16, 2003 Oct 16, 2003 10/16/03
Raymond Chen
Last month, the printers were reconfigured in our building and we got an announcement that went like this: Subject: Printer/Copier Reconfiguration Microsoft Digital Campus Program Action Required blah blah blah printers are being reconfigured blah blah blah...