The Old New Thing

February 20, 2007 - The Old New Thing

Crush Finder experiment gets off the ground at Princeton

February 20, 2007 Feb 20, 2007 02/20/07
Raymond Chen
And who says these college students aren't getting anything done? The Princeton University student government announced, among other things, a web site wherein students could list up to five other people they have crushes on, and if two people list each other, the web site puts the two potential lovebirds in touch with each other. The site ...

How is LockWindowUpdate meant to be used?

February 20, 2007 Feb 20, 2007 02/20/07
Raymond Chen
Now that we know how works, we can look at what it is for. Actually, the intended purpose of can be captured in one word: dragging. But we'll get to that a little later. The purpose of is to allow a program to temporarily take over the responsibility of drawing a window. Of course, in order to do this, you have to prevent the window ...