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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
I love these windows "archaeology" blog posts...while totally useless information sure brings back memories of working with windows in its infancy...
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re: The Essential Guide To Dim Sum
I thought you were going to tell about Dim sum As Integer.
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
> I've heard that there's one program out there that abuses the ITaskbarList3::SetProgressState method by changing its progress state repeatedly, causing its taskbar button to cycle through...
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
I once wrote a little taskbar notification area program that changed its icon to a different solid color every X milliseconds; just as a proof of concept, of course.
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
Minos -By Texan standards, the major cities in Europe *are* right next to each other. :)
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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
Nice article and thanks for spending the 6 hours researching and writing it. Seems like quite a few people got something out of it....
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
I think the term "badge" comes from (or at least was popularized by) mobile platforms.
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
The difference between Americans and Europeans:Americans think 100 years is a long time, while Europeans think a 100 miles ( er.. um 166 km) is a long distance.
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
@MinosA comparison, just for fun:Berlin to Paris: 655 miles/1054 KmNations traveled: Germany, Belgium, FranceMajor Cities passed through or near: Hannover, Duesseldorf/Essen/Cologne, Maastricht, Liege,...
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
@Minos, I used to live in Paris and work in London for a few months. It really isn't far.
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
Possibly obvious after the fact but the overlay icon is not displayed if the taskbar appearance is set to use small icons.I spent way too much time trying to troubleshoot this :<. The behavior is...
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
nullptr, eh? Using C++0x already?[People complain when I don't take advantage of "modern" C++ so I threw that in there to keep them happy. -Raymond]
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
I have a few friends from Alaska. They think it's so cute when Texans brag about the size of their state.
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
@Mark VY: Surely you mean C++11Since we're nitpicking: ' ' => _T(' ')
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Also: Ewww. Mixing BOOL and bool. Pick one and stick with it(choose BOOL. I've never liked these young'uns and their 'bool's. I like my BOOLs to be neither TRUE nor FALSE. Like how they _should_ be....
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re: For the Nitpickers: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy...
@Matt : "sleep for zero milliseconds" and "do nothing" are emphatically *not* the same thing, semantically or otherwise.Calling Sleep(0) let's Windows *know* that you have nothing to do, and that you...
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
Texas is a pretty small state, I've always thought.A comparison, just for fun:Miami to San Antonio: 2,200 kmStates Travelled: Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, TexasMajor cities passed: Orlando, New...
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re: Display an overlay on the taskbar button
"I like my BOOLs to be neither TRUE nor FALSE."You mean <a href="thedailywtf.com/.../a>
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
> Major cities passed: ...Not even Perth.
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re: Let me take this shortcut across Lake Saskatchewan
The "Canadian Statue of Freedom, a 300-foot-tall statue carved from a single rock" sounds awesome. I wish it existed.
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