September 11, 2001

You can make a privately inherited member public by specifying its access modifier in the derived class. For example: #include class base{ public: int a; int b; base() { a=10;

When initializing parameters in a constructor, the order of initialization will not be the same as the order in which you typed them. The order of initializing parameters is ‘as

The Java 2 Runtime Environment is the minimum standard Java computing environment for running applications written in the Java programming language. It contains the Java virtual machine, Java core classes,

This tip demonstrates a user interaction (mouse move & mouse click) using native Robot methods.Here’s the algorithm of the program:1. Quickly to move the mouse cursor to the upper left

Merlin (JDK1.4) introduces two new features: JSpinner and MouseWheelListener. Sometimes it is convenient to control the spinner values with the mouse wheel. Here’s an example: import javax.swing.*;import java.awt.event.*;public class TestSpinner

Sometimes you want to create a thread to run something trivial, like when you’re debugging your code. This is a quick way to do it: new Thread(new Runnable() { public

Recently, I found I needed to send e-mail from my program. Because I did not want to create any external dependencies, I decided not to use JavaMail. However, I wanted