The Old New Thing

September 2010 - The Old New Thing

Why doesn't the TAB key work on controls I've marked as WS_TABSTOP?

September 30, 2010 Sep 30, 2010 09/30/10
Raymond Chen
A customer had a programming problem regarding tab stops: I create a parent window (child of main frame) as below This window hosts 2 toolbar windows. Each toolbar window has the WS_TABSTOP style set using SetWindowLong. MSDN states WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT Allows the user to navigate among the child windows of the window by using the ...
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We apologize for the delay, but there is an issue with the music

September 29, 2010 Sep 29, 2010 09/29/10
Raymond Chen
After the opening work of the Seattle Symphony concert last Saturday night, the orchestra members rearranged themselves to play the Foote, but conductor Gerard Schwarz didn't come out onto the stage. The delay grew and people started wondering what was going on. An announcement was made over the public address system: "We apologize for the ...

Where did my mail control panel icon go?

September 29, 2010 Sep 29, 2010 09/29/10
Raymond Chen
A customer ran into the following problem: I was trying to add another email account to Outlook, and the instructions say that I should go to the mail icon in the Control Panel, which to my surprise is nowhere to be found! How can I figure out what went wrong? A little bit of psychic debugging will solve this. The customer was running ...

Speculation around Microsoft Company Meeting 2010

September 28, 2010 Sep 28, 2010 09/28/10
Raymond Chen
Today is Microsoft's annual Company Meeting. Back in August, the Real Estate and Facilities department sent a message to our group of buildings to inform us that the locker rooms would be closed "due to the filming of an upcoming corporate initiative." Speculation swirled as to what sort of "upcoming corporate initiative" would require ...

Children's reactions to macadamia nuts dipped in chocolate

September 27, 2010 Sep 27, 2010 09/27/10
Raymond Chen
Some time ago, we had some people over our house for dinner, and we had a selection of desserts including chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. The children in attendance finished their dinner before the adults (because the adults were busy doing boring things like talking) and were excused to go play. It so happens that the play room is right ...

Why not just require each application to declare what version of Windows it is compatible with?

September 27, 2010 Sep 27, 2010 09/27/10
Raymond Chen
Via the Suggestion Box, Arno Shoedl asked, "could not a lot of compatibility problems be solved by simply declaring (via manifest?) the earliest and latest version of Windows a program has been tested to run on?" Actually, programs already declare that, sort of. Each module has a subsystem field in the header that specifies the earliest ...

Does anybody actually like Brazil nuts?

September 24, 2010 Sep 24, 2010 09/24/10
Raymond Chen
Brazil nuts are perhaps best known for floating to the top of a jar of mixed nuts. According to Wikipedia,¹ the reason for the phenomenon is not well understood. At least in my house, the reason for the phenomenon is quite clear: Brazil nuts float to the top because nobody in my house likes Brazil nuts. When you reach in and grab a ...

Pizza: The reference food for young children

September 23, 2010 Sep 23, 2010 09/23/10
Raymond Chen
One way to convince a child to try out an unfamiliar food is to say that it's an alternate form of pizza. Here are some examples. Feel free to add more in the comments. I had originally listed crêpe as French pizza, then realized it's more like a French pancake. (I wonder what the Italian version of pizza would be...