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Allocating Multidimensional Arrays

Question: I have two questions about arrays. I have a 2D array of floats. I want to init everything with 0.0f. There must be a better way than going through

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Menus Using Virtual Functions

Question: What is giving me a redefinition of CMenuItems class error in this code? //cmenu.hclass CMenuItem { public: char title[81]; virtual void Do_Command(void)=0;};//*********************//CMDS.CPP Defines and initializes menu commands.#include #include #include

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Running an Image Viewer in a Window

Question: How can I run an image viewer in a window portion of a form in Visual FoxPro alongside a scrolling list box? Answer: Here is how to create a

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Convert a color value to a gray scale

When you have a 32-bit color value, you can convert it to a grey-scale – that is, you can determine how it would appear on a monochromatic display (more or

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Quickly create a copy of an ADO Recordset

When you want to process the data in a Recordset without affecting the actual values in the database, often the Clone method isn’t what you need. For example, if you

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Provide Default Values for Applet Parameters

You can customize your applets by providing parameters at runtime in . But it is a good practice to always provide default values, when specific values for parameters are not

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Generate Random Numbers in Java

You can generate Random numbers in Java using the Random class available in java.util package. The following is a code which generates Random numbers between 0 and 100: import java.util.Random