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Happy 110th birthday, Professor Alyea

Raymond ChenOctober 10, 2013Oct 10, 201310/10/13

Professor Hubert Alyea would be 110 years old today, if he were still among us. (He passed away in 1996 at the ripe age of 93.) LIFE magazine called him the science teacher you wish you had for his engaging (and often explosive) chemistry demonstrations. He was called an "international grand master of lecture demonstrations" by Bassam ...

How do I find out what size the window manager would have chosen for my window?

Raymond ChenOctober 10, 2013Oct 10, 201310/10/13

We saw some time ago how the window manager decides where to place a newly-created window if you pass the CW_USEDEFAULT values when creating the window. But what if you want to filter the values first? If you pass an explicit upper left corner but pass CW_USEDEFAULT for the width and height, then the bottom right corner will be down...

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October 10, 2013 | The Old New Thing

Happy 110th birthday, Professor Alyea

How do I find out what size the window manager would have chosen for my window?

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