December 23, 2013Dec 23, 201312/23/13Today’s Little Program adds a custom task to the application’s
jump list.
Take the
scratch program
and make the following changes.
(Remember, Little Programs do very little error checking
because that’s how they roll.)
#include <shlobj.h>
#include <propkey.h>
#include <wrl/client.h>
using namespace Microsoft::WRL;
December 20, 2013Dec 20, 201312/20/13Steve Wolf suggests that
the sample program would have been much simpler had the shell
extension model been a flat Win32 interface.
Okay, let’s try it.
Since this is an extension model, each extension needs to specify
the callbacks for each namespace operation.
December 19, 2013Dec 19, 201312/19/13Suppose you have a program that is written in Arabic or Hebrew
and you want to render some text.
No problem.
You just call
ExtTextOut and pass the
ETO_RTLREADING flag to say,
“Please render this string in an RTL context.”
Many other text-rendering functions have a similar flag,
December 18, 2013Dec 18, 201312/18/13A customer had the following puzzle:
We have a small bootstrapper application that consists of a dialog box
and a few message boxes.
The problem is that we want our application to work properly
on Arabic and Hebrew systems,
and we can’t come up with a good way to determine text direction
of the underlying system.
December 17, 2013Dec 17, 201312/17/13David Dixon, assistant professor of physics at Saddleback College, gave a presentation while he was at California Polytechnic State University titled Tales from “The Box”, in which he presents selected contents of The Box, an archive of what is charitably describe as “unsolicited materials”,
December 17, 2013Dec 17, 201312/17/13When you connect to another computer via Remote Desktop, you have the option of injecting your local drives into the remote computer, known as Device and Resource Redirection. These injected drives are available under the UNC \\tsclient\X where X is a drive letter on the local machine.
December 16, 2013Dec 16, 201312/16/13I dreamed that I got screwed by Ticketmaster. I was relieved when I woke up and found out it was only a dream.
Bonus chatter: The economics of Ticketmaster.
It reminds me of a company who added a service fee to an existing rate plan,
December 16, 2013Dec 16, 201312/16/13A customer asked how to disable the
PrtSc key in the On-Screen Keyboard.
There is no way to disable the
PrtSc key in the On-Screen Keyboard.
The On-Screen Keyboard shows a keyboard, and you can click any
virtual key you like.
December 13, 2013Dec 13, 201312/13/13Blinky blinky.
December 12, 2013Dec 12, 201312/12/13A customer wanted to know how they could monitor and intercept taskbar notification balloons. In particular, they wanted to intercept the clicks on a particular balloon and take alternative action.
There is no supported mechanism for intercepting taskbar notification balloons or redirecting clicks on them.
