The Old New Thing

December 2004 - Page 3 of 4 - The Old New Thing

Tintin goes to the neurologist

December 13, 2004 Dec 13, 2004 12/13/04
Raymond Chen
The Canadian Medical Association Journal traditionally runs an offbeat research paper in their Christmas edition, for which there is apparently huge competition. This year, Tintin goes to the neurologist. The feedback is fun to read too. (External news coverage here and here.) My first exposure to Tintin was—of course—in ...

Dragging a shell object, part 5: Making somebody else do the heavy lifting

December 10, 2004 Dec 10, 2004 12/10/04
Raymond Chen
Creating that drag image was a bit of work. Fortunately, the listview control is willing to do some of the work for you. Throw away the OnLButtonDown function (and the HANDLE_MESSAGE that goes with it). Instead, we'll make the listview do all our presentation for us. BOOL OnCreate(HWND hwnd, LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs) { g_hwndChild = ...

For all your chicken sequencing needs

December 10, 2004 Dec 10, 2004 12/10/04
Raymond Chen
The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium announced that it has completed the sequencing of chicken DNA. I repeat: There is an organization called "The International Chicken Sequencing Consortium". (For some reason I want to think these people get together and decide, "Okay, Ginger goes first, then Bunty, then Babs...

Dragging a shell object, part 4: Adding a prettier drag icon

December 9, 2004 Dec 9, 2004 12/9/04
Raymond Chen
You may have noticed that the drag feedback is rather sad-looking. Just a box, maybe with a plus sign or an arrow; you don't even know what it is you're dragging. Let's fix that. We'll drag the icon of the file around. We'll need to add the drag image to the data object. void OnLButtonDown(HWND hwnd, BOOL fDoubleClick, int x, int y, UINT...

Time to dust off your conspiracy theories

December 9, 2004 Dec 9, 2004 12/9/04
Raymond Chen
When I started studying Swedish, my web searches happened to alight upon Francis Strand's blog thanks to its wonderful title, "How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons", and I've been following his musings on life on Stockholm ever since. Wednesday morning, an apartment just a block away from his own exploded under curious ...

Dragging a shell object, part 3: Detecting an optimized move

December 8, 2004 Dec 8, 2004 12/8/04
Raymond Chen
We were considering how to detect that the drag/drop operation resulted in a conceptual Move even if the DROPEFFECT_MOVE was optimized away. If the drop target is the shell, you can query the data object for CFSTR_PERFORMEDDROPEFFECT to see what the performed effect was. void OnLButtonDown(HWND hwnd, BOOL fDoubleClick, ...

Researchers find connection between lack of sleep and weight gain

December 7, 2004 Dec 7, 2004 12/7/04
Raymond Chen
Shortage of sleep is linked to obesity , according to research published yesterday. Lack of sleep boosts levels of a hormone that triggers appetite and lowers levels of a hormone that tells your body it is full according to the team. The scientists will now study whether obese people should sleep more to lose weight...

Dragging a shell object, part 2: Enabling the Move operation

December 7, 2004 Dec 7, 2004 12/7/04
Raymond Chen
Let's say that we did want to support Move in our drag/drop program, for whatever reason. Let's do it with some scratch file instead of clock.avi, though. Create a file somewhere that you don't mind losing; let's say it's C:\throwaway.txt. Change the function OnLButtonDown as follows: void OnLButtonDown(HWND hwnd, BOOL fDoubleClick...