February 27, 2004Feb 27, 200402/27/04If you want to display modal UI, you need to disable the owner and enable the modal child, and then reverse the procedure when the modal child is finished.
And if you do it wrong, focus will get all messed up.
February 26, 2004Feb 26, 200402/26/04Floppy disks use the FAT filesystem, as do DOS-based and Windows 95-based operating systems. On the other hand, Windows NT-based systems (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, …) tend to use the NTFS filesystem. (Although you can format a drive as FAT on Windows NT-based systems,
February 25, 2004Feb 25, 200402/25/04The short answer: “Because there is no NIF_PARSELINKS flag.”
The long answer:
When balloon tips were first developed, there was no ability
to embed links.
Consequently, programs were free to put insecure text in balloon tips,
since there was no risk that they would become “live”.
February 24, 2004Feb 24, 200402/24/04The window returned by GetDesktopWindow() is very special, and I see people abusing it all over the place.
For example, many functions in the shell accept a window handle parameter to be used in case UI is needed. IShellFolder::EnumObjects, for example.
February 23, 2004Feb 23, 200402/23/04Perhaps you want a value to use as a sentinel, which you want to be guaranteed is never a valid thread ID or process ID. What values can you use?
Nothing is explicitly written about this topic, but you can put on your logic cap and figure it out.
February 22, 2004Feb 22, 200402/22/04Insert pinky.
February 21, 2004Feb 21, 200402/21/04Okay, I was hoping it wasn’t going to be needed but it takes only one bad apple…
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February 20, 2004Feb 20, 200402/20/04A common problem when trying to get your new COM object off the ground is that you can’t seem to be able to get it created. The object comes out of the class factory, and it gets a QueryInterface for IMarshal,
February 19, 2004Feb 19, 200402/19/04Somehow the server is in a wonky state and my autopilot script that posts a new article at 7 every morning is getting error 500 back (internal server error). So I’m posting manually for the nonce. Expect erratic posting times until the problem is resolved.
February 19, 2004Feb 19, 200402/19/04Norman Diamond noted in a comment that on Windows 2003 Server, the Display Adapter Troubleshooting slider still lists “full acceleration” as the recommended setting even though the default for Server is “full minus one”.
This is one of those “Oh, that’s an easy change”
