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August 2006 - Posts

Code maintenance tip, and why EventArgs are a good thing

…tap, tap, tap… I’ve been coding away lately and ran into one of those frustrating situations where I needed to add several new arguments to a function with a parameter list already a mile long. That’s used in three places. And I wasn’t sure what parameters Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:40 PM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments

Workaround for disabled flyouts

Frans ran into some trouble disabling parent menu items. Turns out they dont disable the evaluation of child shortcuts. This was an oversight on our part. That said, most applications remove flyouts that are not in-use so as to not taunt users with menus Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:56 PM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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Win32 Activation and Focus

For the most part, activation and focus work pretty darn well in windows, until you want to tweak something that doesn’t fit within the typical windowing model or roll your own menu. Most folks don’t separate out activation and focus, but they are really Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:53 AM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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