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Whenever you define a class member function which does not (and should not) change its object, it’s a good idea to define it as a const member function. There are

Did you ever feel the urge to use a nice Java class you just wrote as an ActiveX object on your Windows machine? Good news: you can do it in

Question: Our Powerbuilder application launches an external program using the RUN command. We use the Timer Event to keep checkingif the process is running by using theKERNAL32 external function GetModuleHandleA.

Question: I would like to program the parallel port in Windows NT or 95. What should I do? Answer: At the simplest level, accessing the parallel port involves reading and

Question: I tried to place wild-card (e.g. ‘%Ken%’) for the searching of records in a DataWindow through QueryMode, but couldn’t get the result. Are there any other ways to do

Question: Is there a header file in Visual C++ v4 (sorry a bit behind :)) that replaces the old graph.h? I am writing console apps for school and would like

Question: When I open PowerBuilder, I want it to open showing the library painter by default. I tried modifying the Target in the Propeties for the PowerBuilder icon by adding

Question: I am working on my first Delphi 2.0 application which has grown to be quite large over the past few months. The problem is that lately I have been

Question: We want to create menus dynamically where we store the menu items in a table. While running the application, we want to read the values from the table and