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Change Task Print Layout

Question: How can I change the form used to print tasks? I would like it to print more than one line of notes. Answer: The standard form for printing a

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System Shutdown

Question: Is there an API that I can use to sense that the system is shutting down? Answer: Up until just recently the answer was no. But Sun keeps on

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TextField Max Characters

Question: How do I restrict the number of characters to be entered in a TextField? Answer: Setting a maximum character count is not a built-in function ofTextField. You have to

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Preprocessor Support

Question: Is there something similar to the C/C++ compiler directive #ifdef,#define, and #endif in Java? I would like to compiledebugging code conditionally. Answer: This is one of the first questions

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Return Values from Java to Unix

Question: I am calling a java program from a Unix script and passing threeparameters. Once the Java program is done, I want to return two valuesback to the Unix program

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DWORD Equivalent

Question: I’m trying to translate from VC++ to Java. Can you declare a variableDWORD in Java? If not, what is the Java equivalent? Also, what is theequivalent for HINSTANCE? Answer:

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HTML Pop-Up Menus Rendering Issues

Pop-up menus in normal HTML pages are usually implemented using Layers (DIV tag). However, the leading browser applications in the market have this known problem with layers: if a pop-up