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The structure has an member which contains a number of bits describing the state of the item being drawn. How do those states map to the underlying control? Most of the states are rather obvious. For a list box item to be selected, it means that the item is part of the selection. But what does selected mean for a button? Since people like table...

A customer reported that the function was behaving strangely. We have this code in one of our tests: Recently, this test started failing in bizarre ways. When we stepped through the code, we discovered that ends up calling instead of . The first time we try to test , we get stack corruption because has a different function prototype from...

Suppose you want to multiply two double-word values producing a quad-word result, but your processor supports only single-word multiplication with a double-word result. For concreteness, let's say that your processor supports 32 × 32 → 64 multiplication and you want to implement 64 × 64 → 128 multiplication. (Sound like any processor you know?) Oh...

Calling to cancel a window timer prevents messages from being generated for that timer, even if one is overdue. In other words, give this sequence of operations: no message is ever generated. Even though a timer became due during the , no timer message was generated during the sleep because timer messages are generated on demand, and nobody ...

A customer was worried that they may have a problem with their message queue filling with messages. "If my handler takes longer than the timer period, will my queue fill up with messages?" As we should know by now, timer messages are generated on demand: The WM_TIMER message is a low-priority message. The Get­Message and Peek­Message ...

Suppose your window procedure doesn't paint when it gets a message. What happens? It depends on how you don't paint. If you have an explicit handler for the message that does nothing but return without painting, then the window manager will turn around and put a new message in your queue. "And try harder this time." Remember that the rules ...

Some time ago, we looked at how doing something can be faster than not doing it. That is, we observed the non-classical effect of the branch predictor. I took the branch out of the inner loop, but let's see how much further I can push it. The trick I'll employ today is using SIMD in order to operate on multiple pieces of data simultaneously. Ta...

It doesn't happen often, but a user's SID can change. For example, when I started at Microsoft, my account was in the SYS-WIN4 domain, which is where all the people on the Windows 95 team were placed. At some point, that domain was retired, and my account moved to the REDMOND domain. We saw some time ago that the format of a user SID is T...

Today is a holiday in the United States, so I'm going to celebrate by referring you to other things to read. I'm going to start with a presentation by Bruce Dawson at GDC 2009, which is basically multiple instances of the question "Is this code correct?", and the answer is always "No!" Although the title of the talk is Lockless Programming in Game...

Today's Little Program strips diacritics from a Unicode string. Why? Hey, I said that Little Programs require little to no motivation. It might come in handy in a spam filter, since it was popular, at least for a time, to put random accent marks on spam subject lines in order to sneak past keyword filters. (It doesn't seem to be popular any more.)...