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July 27, 1998

Saving Object to File

Question: Is it possible to save an object (in my case a collection) directly to a file, or must one extract the object’s properties and save each individually? Answer: Visual

Closing an application

Question: When I press the Close button on my app’s main form, the program appears to end. When I look at the Windows task list, however, my app is still

C vs C++

Question: What is the main difference between Visual C and Visual C++ in Windows environments? Why would I want to use C++ instead? Is there any functional difference? Answer: Well,

Year 2000 and C++

Question: I am urgently looking for information regarding Year 2000 compliancy for Borland’s C++ compilers, esp. versions 3.1 and 4.02. Answer: I can’t imagine anything about C++ or the compiler

Converting text to a binary code

Question: I’m using Borland C++ to perform some data conversion, and I have had some difficulties. Is it possible to convert all the text (including nonreadable text) within a text

Applets, URLs, and frames

Question: I want my Web page to have three frames: one for my applet and the other two for information. How can I make it so my applet updates both

Recursion

Question: Is it possible to make recursive subroutine calls in Java? Answer: Yes, you can make recursive method calls in Java.Just make sure you have a termination condition to avoid

Closing an application from another app

Question: How do I use one application to close another application in Windows 95? I need to overwrite a loaded DLL, so I have to close the application that loads

Dynamic memory allocation

Question: How do you dynamically allocate memory for a two-dimensional array? This is what I had, and my g++ compiler didn’t like it: int **m;m= new int [100][100]; Answer: Yep.