March 7, 2000

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Passing a Date With the Query String

Question: Can I pass a date with the query string? Will the slashes cause a problem in this example? testing.asp?date=03/01/00 Answer: Yes they will. You will need to “encode” the

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Create a Collapsible Tree in IE5 Using SrcElement

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 5 Tree structures appear quite often over the ‘Net, and they are becoming especially prominent in the face of the emergence of XML. Fortunately, tree structures

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Determine Your Heap Size

The following example program prints out both the total and free memory sizes, allocates a chunk of memory, and then prints the memory sizes again. If the initial size of

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Font Metrics

Font properties that affect the rendering of strings are represented by the FontMetrics class. You can determine the FontMetrics of the current font in a graphics context with Graphics.getFontMetrics(). If

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Beware of Static Finals

Consider this scenario, you define a public static final variable in one java file, and access the variable in other java file. Now, if you change the value of static