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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
To be fair, the article does say "You want to prevent balloon tips from being displayed ***in the notification area.***"
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
[News flash: 16-bit Windows did not contain any code to parse Win32 binaries. -Raymond] Emmm... I think I was able to install Win32s to Win3.1 and run certain Win32 binaries... Okay... I know it's a...
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
To help with this situation, Windows should show a balloon tip to notify the user whenever a balloon tip would have been shown but was blocked by the setting.
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
>Really what would be useful would be have a non masked text box with a checkbox on the right to enable/disable the masking. The iPhone handles this in a reasonable manner, I think: briefly displays...
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
@dave: As did my Android handset and my Windows Phone phone. That router sounds like it needs a beating.
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re: What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?
Is it guaranteed that new'd pointers are multiples of four? [Depends on what kind of pointer, right? -Raymond]
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
LeoDavidson, Don't give them any idea. Once they went with "why don't we show a puppy when a user just wants to search files".
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
Not to mention that the setting is a negative option. I wonder how many times a program has created the DWORD EnableBalloonTips and forgot to change the default value from 0 to 1? Creating an option...
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re: What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?
I've never understood the point of this pattern in the first place. If you know you're going to need exactly one of something that's going to be used by multiple threads, the smart thing to do is to...
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re: What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?
[This is difficult when your code doesn't control the thread creation. -Raymond] Static instance of class in C++. Problem solved. ["Hey, let's do complicated stuff in DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH. What could...
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re: What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean?
Static instance of class in C++. Problem solved. ["Hey, let's do complicated stuff in DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH. What could possibly go wrong?" -Raymond] In case you might doubt what Raymond is saying here, I...
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
[News flash: 16-bit Windows did not contain any code to parse Win32 binaries. -Raymond] Once Win32s is installed, 16 bit programs such as progman.exe are able to extract icons from 32 bit binaries. I...
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
@alv: Hardly late to the show as IBM introduced the "enhanced" keyboard with the two Alt keys in 1986, with non-US keyboards having the right one replaced with Alt Gr.
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
@Dave: Yes, 1986 was late to the show, as programs already used Ctrl+Alt+[X] shortcuts that time.
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
Thanks for the mention of Polish users. I am from Poland and agree that it’s a total PITA.
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
It is quite common to connect to your local router's web interface by IP rather than by domain name.
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
I think the complaint here is Ctrl+Alt shortcuts that are *global*, so their impact is not limited to an application that decides what the most appropriate keystroke functionality is for itself. [But...
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
Adam: "I was talking about using a bare modifier key like Ctrl to invoke some action" What's the default keystroke to release a captured cursor in VMWare? Right-Ctrl?
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re: Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys?
I think hacksoncode is talking about shortcuts placed in the start menu or on the desktop with a registered hotkey that is Ctrl+Alt. [Oh, you're talking about the hotkey control in the Shortcuts...
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
Let's try this again. Win32s contains a parser for PE files that is somehow able to load resources from a 32 bit .EXE or .DLL for access by a 16 bit process. As you already stated, Win16 does not have...
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