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Question: What is the best software package available for the intermediate programmer to develop Web pages? I have never created a Web page before, but I have about 20 years of experience programming in Basic, Fortran, C, and Visual Basic. Answer: With your Visual Basic experience, it seems that Visual
Question: I’m designing a new rollover for my menu frame. I have five graphics, and I want them to change colors when the user mouses over them. Also, how do I make it so that text appears in the status bar at the bottom of the window? Answer: There are
It’s often the case that you’ll use some derived value in the test section of a for loop. Many times this value will not be changed during the loop, such as in this example: Vector stuff;stuff.addElement(“First”);stuff.addElement(“Second”);…for (int i = 0; i < stuff.size(); i++) { System.out.println(stuff.elementAt(i));} // for (int i
Many Web site managers prefer all site visitors to enter their site through the front page. The front page may contain site usage information that all users should see, or navigation tools that they’ll be lost without. In any case, you can ensure that all visitors go to the front
Your database is useless if your clients can’t connect to it. However, keeping all the DLLs necessary in sync with each other has always been a complicated task. Microsoft has tried to make this task a bit easier with a new package called the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). Microsoft
Every STL container uses an allocator that encapsulates the memory model that the specific platform uses. Allocators hide the platform-dependent details such as the size of pointers, memory organization, reallocation model, and memory page size. Since a container can work with different allocator types, it can easily work in different