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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

IShellFolder::GetDisplayNameOf: "At one time, pidl could be a multilevel PIDL, relative to the parent folder, and could contain multiple SHITEMID structures. However, this is no longer supported and...

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re: Eliot Chang's list of things Asians hate

((Nearly everyone in the world understands "American" to mean someone from the United States.  end of story))Another variant is euphemizing "Are you Jewish?"  Sometimes I'm in the mood to play dumb and...

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re: Why was WHEEL_DELTA chosen to be 120 instead of a much more convenient...

Or, MOST of the way around the world until it gets speared to death by Philippine natives.

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re: Why was WHEEL_DELTA chosen to be 120 instead of a much more convenient...

Roastbeef: Of course, this was after MS had moved away from OS/2 (I won't flame the entire story here).

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OT, but I wonder why VBA was forgotten when mouse wheel support was added to Office 97.

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re: Microspeak: pivot

The Shell team does not get how pivotal it is for the Explorer auto sorting pivot to be turned off. :P

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

> OT, but I wonder why VBA was forgotten when mouse wheel support was added to Office 97Yeah man; that's been eating away my soul for 16 years. And this forum is where the answer will lie.

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

Yuhong Bao: "OT"Nominated for understatement of the year. I'll check back December, but I doubt someone will top that.

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

Maybe he meant to comment on yesterday's post?

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

Oh the infamous ShiteMid, reminds me of IShitTestVisible, useful when you need to find not so obvious bug.

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

This seems pretty hard to use in practice.  For example, ILClone takes only a relative IIDLIST.  Why not an absolute IIDLIST?  What could the difference between these possibly mean in terms of cloning...

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re: When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of*

Well, does not sound like these safearrays are very safe

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re: When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of*

GetAwesomeArray(&sa); - how does this work? GetAwesomeArray accepts SAFEARRAY **, and &sa is CComSafeArray<VARIANT>*, which is not convertible to it.

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re: STRICT_TYPED_ITEMIDS is the shell namespace version of the STRICT macro...

Ah, well, there is an ILCloneFull().  But then MFC itself seems to use the non-strict model, which makes using it with this unpleasant (going to have to cast _AFX_SHELLITEMINFO members, e.g.)

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re: Why was WHEEL_DELTA chosen to be 120 instead of a much more convenient...

Daniel: that was indeed a great video.  Thanks!

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re: When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of*

@SpecLadGenerally, something likeSAFEARRAY** operator &() const{   return &m_psa;}in CComSafeArray.The odd-man-out is CComVariant, which actually is-a VARIANT.

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re: Eliot Chang's list of things Asians hate

[And the comments to the video have somehow become an argument about evolution. Welcome to the Internet. -Raymond]1) don't read youtube comments2) that's probably the best possible outcome of a youtube...

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re: When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of*

So CComSafeArray<VARIANT> allows you to put any type of SAFEARRAY in it?

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re: Heads-up: Phone scammers pretending to be JPMorgan Chase MasterCard security

@Jon: I knew someone that almost fell for this.  The scammer opens up the Event Viewer and shows all the items that are marked as Warning or Error (probably with a filter excluding the Information...

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re: When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of*

@Anonymouse that would make it work but @SpecLad is correct CComSafeArray does *not* contain an "operator&"[*]. I think Raymond meant to use ".GetSafeArrayPtr()". CComSafeArray leaves, in my...

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