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Break Out of Those Frames

So you’ve designed your page just perfectly so all the content screams at the user to be noticed. Unfortunately, sites that link to your site have decided to place their

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Initializing A ResultSet

Question: I am building a prototype but am trying to make the code as reuseableas possible. To test the prototype, I need to simulate a ResultSetbeing returned from a database.

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Textfield Alignment

Question: How do I right align numbers in a textfield? Answer: This is yet another example of why the Swing classes should be used inlieu of the AWT classes. Swing

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AWT Thread Interaction

Question: I have two threads in an application. Thread A displays a form andallows the user to interact with it, thread B executes a loop whichcontinually retrieves data and updates

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New Versus Malloc()

Question: Why is it necessary to typecast the return value of malloc() but not for the new operator? This question has been asked of many C++ experts but no one

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Outlook Client Locks Up

Question: We have someone using PPTP to connect to our Exchange server. He is able to use the intranet without problems. He can even get into Outlook, but the troubles

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Deleting/Expanding a Column

Question: What is the proper method(s) to delete a column from a table or expand the size of a column in a table? Adding is easy. Deleting and changing obviously

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DATETIME Type Conversion

Question: I need some help with the DATETIME data type conversion. I have an Informix database running in a UNIX environment and I need to insert the system hour into

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Dynamic Report Generation

Question: How can I develop a report such that the user can choose what fields of a (single) table should be retrieved and printed? For example, a customer table with