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February 2005 - Posts

Monday, February 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 6: Interacting with a program that has gone modal

Respect the modality of a window.
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Monday, February 28, 2005 7:00 AM

"Support our troops" wristbands provide only 1/3 support

Tsunami wristbands don't fare much better.
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Friday, February 25, 2005 7:00 AM

Two brief reminiscences on the Windows XP "Comments?" button

The influence of local comedy programs on Windows XP.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:58 AM

Modality, part 5: Setting the correct owner for modal UI

Which window are you supposed to use?
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 4: The importance of setting the correct owner for modal UI

The visual state becomes out of sync with the stack state.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 3: The WM_QUIT message

The WM_QUIT message lets multiple modal loops communicate with each other.
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Monday, February 21, 2005 7:00 AM

Modality, part 2: Code-modality vs UI-modality

The dichotomy breaks in the other direction, too.
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Friday, February 18, 2005 7:01 AM

Modality, part 1: UI-modality vs code-modality

The two usually agree but are not required to.
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:00 AM

MsgWaitForMultipleObjects and the queue state

It waits only for messages that have arrived since the last time you checked.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:00 AM

Limitations of the shell animation control

If you want a complete animation renderer you know where to find it.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:00 AM

You cannot globally reserve user-mode address space

"Imagine if this were so."
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Monday, February 14, 2005 7:01 AM

How to act like you know Chinese even though you don't

A little lucky guessing.
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Monday, February 14, 2005 7:00 AM

LoadLibraryEx(DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES) is fundamentally flawed

It's a time bomb in your process.
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Friday, February 11, 2005 7:01 AM

Windowless controls are not magic

They take a lot of work, but they aren't magic.
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:58 AM

Why do minimized windows have an apparent size of 160x31?

Because they are miniature title bars.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:00 AM

The dangers of filtering window messages

Thinking through message pumping.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:00 AM

What other effects does DS_SHELLFONT have on property sheet pages?

Once you invent a new flag you can start using it to fix errors of the past.
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Monday, February 07, 2005 7:00 AM

Why does DS_SHELLFONT = DS_FIXEDSYS | DS_SETFONT?

For backwards compatibility with older operating systems.
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Friday, February 04, 2005 7:01 AM

What's the deal with the DS_SHELLFONT flag?

It indicates that you want the Windows 2000 default shell font. But that doesn't mean that you're going to get it.
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:58 AM

Why is breadth-first searching better for file system tree walking?

It goes back to the old MS-DOS file searching functions
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:00 AM

The history of the Windows PowerToys

It's not that exciting really.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:00 AM

How to detect programmatically whether you are running on 64-bit Windows

IsWow64Process.
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