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Arrays of Arrays

Question: Is it possible to have an array of character arrays? What about anarray of multidimensional character arrays? Answer: Java arrays are first-class objects. They can be referenced byObject reference

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JFrame Look and Feel

Question: Is there any way I can make a JFrame look like JInternalFrame? It looks bad at runtime when you change the look-and-feel, but the mainframe doesn’t change. Answer: This

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Failure to Resolve Name Remotely

Question: I am trying to get remote access to my e-mail account. Although I can dial in the domain successfully, when I start Outlook, I receive this error message: “Network

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Rotating a Column in PowerBuilder

Question: Is it possible to rotate a column 90 degrees in a PowerBuilder (5.0.04) datawindow so that the data print up and down instead of the usual left to right?

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Exchange System Attendant Error Message

Question: I am running Exchange 5.5 with about 60 mailboxes. When I try to access the e-mail tab of a newly created mailbox I get the following error: an error

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Friend Procedures are faster than Public ones

It might surprise you to learn that Friend procedures are sensibly faster than Public ones. You can prove this yourself by creating an ActiveX EXE project with one Private class

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Show a custom caret

VB gives you no control on the size of the text caret. At times it can be necessary to change its size, however, for example when you want to signal

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Display the dialog to configure a port

The ConfigurePort API function lets you programmatically bring up the system dialog box for configuring a COM or LPT port. The function returns a non-zero value if successful (that is,