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This useful code listing prevents users from entering duplicate entries into a listbox or modifying existing listbox entries. While the code prevents users from adding duplicate entries, you can modify
Recently, I turned to Windows messaging to manipulate certain dialogs by simulating button clicks programmatically. I looked through my API references and found only the WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP messages. I
Many VB programmers haven’t harnessed the power of VB6’s resource editor. They still use traditional LoadPicture or other primitive calls to load bitmaps and icons. Before VB5, loading pictures into
The type qualifiers const and volatile are idempotent. This means that if a type qualifier is included indirectly several times in a type specification (e.g., through a typedef or a
I’m developing a database system for a distant customer with a slow Internet connection. The system imports data and generates reports. The problem with importing and generating reports is that,
You can use Java to execute another program and display its output (via a BufferedReader). Here’s the code: import java.io.*;import java.util.ArrayList;public class ExecDemo{ static public String[] runCommand(String cmd) throws IOException
Previous versions of Internet Information Server (IIS) allowed an ASP page to include the contents of another file using code like this: With IIS 5.0, you can include the file
When you transfer files from Windows to the Macintosh, the files become DOS text files. This can be a problem if you convert movies to Java on a Windows computer