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April 2005 - Posts

Friday, April 29, 2005 7:00 AM

Building a dialog template at run-time

Putting together what we've learned so far to do something interesting.
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:00 AM

Rescuing thread messages from modal loops via message filters

The WH_MSGFILTER hook lets you snoop on messages as they travel through modal loops.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:00 AM

Watching thread messages disappear

A sample program that loses thread messages.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:00 AM

If you pull a 1920's fire extinguisher out of the ocean, for pete's sake don't drink it!

The ebb and flow of flotsam and jetsam.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:00 AM

Thread messages are eaten by modal loops

DispatchMessage can't dispatch a message to a window that doesn't exist.
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Monday, April 25, 2005 7:00 AM

Welcome to Millennium Tower, due for completion in May 2005

The increasingly incorrectly-named centerpiece of Portsmouth's Millennium Project.
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Monday, April 25, 2005 7:00 AM

What is the HINSTANCE passed to SetWindowsHookEx used for?

It lets the system known which DLL it needs to inject into each process.
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Friday, April 22, 2005 7:00 AM

The new scratch program

Hopping aboard the C++ bandwagon.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:00 AM

Sweden's Worst Driver

Returning to humiliation as a staple of reality-based television.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:00 AM

The Itanium's so-called stack

The Itanium has two stacks, so don't assume that there's only one.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:00 AM

What is the DC brush good for?

It gives you a one-shot solid color brush.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:00 AM

When people ask for security holes as features: Hiding files from Explorer

The arms race between hiding and showing.
Posted by oldnewthing | 40 Comments
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:00 AM

Project update: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth

Quietly delayed another year.
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Monday, April 18, 2005 4:47 AM

What is the HINSTANCE passed to CreateWindow and RegisterClass used for?

It specifies where the class name should be looked up.
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Friday, April 15, 2005 5:25 AM

News flash: Everybody has to pay income tax

NFL rookies alerted to the realities of life.
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Friday, April 15, 2005 4:00 AM

Tweaking our computation of the interval between two moments in time

Combining two tricks into one big trick.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:55 PM

Computing the interval between two moments in time

It's just subtraction, but subtraction may not be what you want.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:00 AM

Using the powers of mathematics to simplify multi-level comparisons

What a boring title.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:57 AM

There's an awful lot of overclocking out there

and it makes Windows look bad.
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Monday, April 11, 2005 5:48 AM

The end of one of the oldest computers at Microsoft still doing useful work

Alas, the victim of a dead hard drive.
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Friday, April 08, 2005 4:00 AM

The dialog manager, part 9: Custom accelerators in dialog boxes

Injecting accelerator keys into the dialog modal loop.
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:05 AM

The dialog manager, part 8: Custom navigation in dialog boxes

Injecting navigation keys into the dialog modal loop.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:47 AM

The dialog manager, part 7: More subtleties in message loops

Fixing the EndManualModalDialog bug a different way.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:00 AM

The dialog manager, part 6: Subtleties in message loops

Fixing some bugs from last time.
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Monday, April 04, 2005 4:00 AM

The dialog manager, part 5: Converting a non-modal dialog box to modal

Writing your own dialog loop.
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Friday, April 01, 2005 6:57 AM

The dialog manager, part 4: The dialog loop

Just processing messages until EndDialog.
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