The Old New Thing

March 1, 2005 - The Old New Thing

Suggestion Box 2

March 1, 2005 Mar 1, 2005 03/1/05
Raymond Chen
Post suggestions for future topics here instead of posting off-topic comments. Note that the suggestion box is emptied and read periodically so don't be surprised if your suggestion vanishes. (Note also that I am under no obligation to accept any suggestion.)Topics I are more inclined to cover: Topics I am not inclined to cover: (Due to the ...

Modality, part 7: A timed MessageBox, the cheap version

March 1, 2005 Mar 1, 2005 03/1/05
Raymond Chen
As we noted at the end of part 3, now that you know the conventions surrounding the message you can put them to your advantage. The more robust you want the function to be, the more work you need to do. Here's the cheap version, based on the sample in the Knowledge Base, but with some additional bug fixes. This function acts ...