The Old New Thing

August 9, 2005 - The Old New Thing

That’s about the size of it

August 9, 2005 Aug 9, 2005 08/9/05
Raymond Chen
News reporters seem to have some difficulty reporting the size of things. In order to make things more accessible to their readers, they try to compare it to the size of an everyday object, but to me it seems they try a bit too hard. For example, this story about the recent rescue of the crew of a sunken submarine noted, [T]he layers of ...

The dangers of messing with activation when handling a WM_ACTIVATE message

August 9, 2005 Aug 9, 2005 08/9/05
Raymond Chen
This is basically the same thing as The dangers of playing focus games when handling a WM_KILLFOCUS message, just with activation in place of focus. One developer discovered the hard way that if you mess with activation inside your WM_ACTIVATE handler, things get weird. The author noted that if he posted a message and did the work from the ...