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URL Redirection With Perl

Once your Perl CGI program has run and you’re ready to display the results, you have a couple of choices. If the results are dynamic and different for every user,

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Layers or DIVs?

The world of DHTML is a chaotic one right now. Netscape Navigator 4.x and Internet Explorer 4.x have sufficiently different implementations of the Document Object Model (DOM) that cross-browser DHTML

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Use MouseMove for Easy StatusBar Updates

You can easily make your program show descriptive text on a StatusBar control in response to mouse movement. Assign the text to the appropriate panel in the MouseMove events of

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Easy Confirmation

Sometimes you want to give your users the chance to confirm that they wish to proceed with the closure of a form. Instead of using a MsgBox function and a

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Show Data With Outlook Grid

You can easily create a calendar grid similar to the one in Outlook to show data. First, start a VB project, then place an MSFlex Grid on the form, with

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Provide a Horizontal Scroll Event for a Listbox

Subclassing a listbox allows you to monitor horizontal scrolling. To subclass a listbox, you store the original WndProc in the UserData area of the listbox, allowing a single replacement of

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Base Class Constructor With Arguments

When a constructor has to pass arguments to its base class constructor or to an embedded object, you must use a mem-initializer: class base {private: int num1; char * text;public: