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Activate Your Applets

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

Aborting a Loop

Question: Is there any way to abort a loop with just pressing a kee. Like you could do in Pascal: dountil keypress Answer: If you are writing a loop that

How to Learn C++

Question: What is the best way to learn c++?I can study on line, by book or attend a course.Which are the bests places to start. Answer: The answer really depends

CL.EXE Error

Question: I installed MS Visual C++ 5.0 at work and on my home machine. At work it’s fine running on Windows NT with 96 megs of RAM. On my home

Linked List vs. File I/O

Question: Can you explain to me how a linked list works with FILE I/O. For example, how do you add, modify, delete, and search for a student record in a

Mouse Support Under DOS

Question: In what direction should I look to find a way tobuild a simple dos aplication with mouse control. Answer: Building a DOS application that provides mouse support involves writing

Accessing I/O Memory under Win32

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

External function for checking a process

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.

DOS Graphics vs. Windows

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