The Old New Thing

Creating tree view check boxes manually: Responding to clicks

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17

Raymond Chen

Cycling through the state images.

Creating tree view check boxes manually: A simple state image list

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17

Raymond Chen

Rebuilding the states, maybe with some new ones.

Beware of the leaked image list when using the TVS_CHECKBOXES style

November 28, 2017 Nov 28, 2017 11/28/17

Raymond Chen

It'll make one for you, but it's still on you to destroy it.

The TVS_CHECKBOXES style is quirky, which is a polite way of saying that it is crazy

November 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017 11/27/17

Raymond Chen

You have to set it at just the right time.

Getting a parent and child window to have the same UI states

November 24, 2017 Nov 24, 2017 11/24/17

Raymond Chen

Wrangling them into agreement.

Demonstrating what happens when a parent and child window have different UI states

November 23, 2017 Nov 23, 2017 11/23/17

Raymond Chen

Setting up for a fail.

What is the documentation for SetParent trying to tell me about synchronizing the UI state?

November 22, 2017 Nov 22, 2017 11/22/17

Raymond Chen

There's this thing called a UI state, see, and it should be synchronized.

The sad implementation history of COM component categories and why it means you have to click twice to see your newly-installed taskbar toolbar

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17

Raymond Chen

First we have to find them.

How can I find the installation directory for my UWP application?

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17

Raymond Chen

You can ask PowerShell.

The wrong way of benchmarking the most efficient integer comparison function

November 17, 2017 Nov 17, 2017 11/17/17

Raymond Chen

Missing the forest for the blade of grass.