Sometimes is useful to know how many buttons the user’s mouse has. This value can be obtained by calling GetSystemMetrics. The constant to pass as parameter is SM_ CMOUSEBUTTONS. Here’s
If you need to know how Windows was started you have just to call an API function: GetSystemMetrics. Passing the SM_CLEANBOOT constant as parameter, the function returns a Long value
As you know, when you press CTRL+ALT+CANC the Task List window appears. This dialog allows you to see all the running processes and also to terminate them. If you don’t
The dialog you see when you start an Internet connection is implemented in the RNAUI.DLL file, and the specific function is called RnaDial. To open this dialog from your application
It takes only a handful of lines of code to create Windows inspector program, that is, an utility that lets you display the handle, the class name and the contents
Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 4+ Dates can be a pain to deal with when working with scripting. Fortunately VBScript 5.0 supports a number of different functions that can simplify the
Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 3+, Netscape Navigator 3+ You can take advantage of the new XHTML standard in your own code, regardless of your browser, to enhance the capabilities of
Question: I would like to force data entered into a form to be uppercase. This is probably basic, but I can’t figure it out! Answer: What you are looking for
Data types larger than the size of a byte aren’t portable because of the different endian-ordering of each hardware architecture. This means that passing an int in its binary form