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re: Online gift ordering + enthusiastic kids at the keyboard + Unicode,...
Depends on how the available message size is calculated (the whole glyphs vs. code points vs. bytes can of worms.) Â This affects more than just soft hyphens; it will also affect combining characters...
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re: Paint messages will come in as fast as you let them
Maybe AsmGuru62 hasn't read (or doesn't remember) your post from 2003?? So his point in posting this might essentially be the same as the point of your blog post was back then. To inform others of...
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@Crescens2k then clearly the solution is to have a "can inherit" flag [which has no effect on its own, unless either the file handle is in a list or the old-style CreateProcess is used] that can be set...
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@Leo, blah: If you want to conflate your custom message, just use PeekMessage for its code.
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@alegr1: That only works for message loops that you have control over, ie. not for arbitrary threads or modal loops running on your thread(s).
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"(It's not actually a flag, but you can think of it that way.)" - now I'm slightly curious as to what it is, but I expect it's just an auto-reset event or equivalent. Otherwise, potentially non-obvious...
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> If the user is continuously moving the mouse, how many WM_MOUSEÂMOVE messages will I get? Three pounds of flax. Or five tons. Depends.
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If you don't have too many different messages that you need to conflate, you could use timers.
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What's a hallway conversion? Sounds like a transformer-move. [Nice. Just for that, I'm leaving the typo in! -Raymond]
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Or you could use WM_PAINT. As an example of this see here http://blogs.msdn.com/.../10249000.aspx which is also from way back in 2003.
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I just thought "hallway conversion" was more Microspeak and the next blog would explain it.
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> Nice. Just for that, I'm leaving the typo in! I like your sense of humor. :-)
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A hallway conversion is a conversion of a adjective into a noun, when performed in the hallway!
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A 'hallway conversion' is what happens when a team member drags you out of the meeting to beat some sense into you.
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Related question: how many roads must a man walk down?
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@blah: Luke only needed 24 updates a second to confront Vader and the Emperor. Kirk only needed 24 updates a second to scream Kaaaaahhhhnnnnnn. Using a WM_TIMER at 41ms to update your UI, I think we...
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@Stewart: Are you suggesting to handle custom flags/messages as part of WM_PAINT? Oops, too bad, the handling gets stalled when the app is minimized or completely obscured, because you don't get those...
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re: Microspeak: Offline (noun)
I dunno about Microsoft-specific lingo, but at places I've worked, "Take it offline, please" during a meeting typically means "Instead of discussing this topic live, please discuss it online."
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