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The remove_if() algorithm

The remove_if() algorithms (defined in the standard header ) has the following prototype: template ForwardIterator remove (ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Predicate pred); The first two arguments mark the sequence’s beginning

The remove() Algorithm

The Standard Library defines the std::remove() algorithm, which moves desired elements to the front of a container and returns an iterator pointing to the end of the sequence of the

MB ProgressBar Control

This control is a great substitute for the ProgressBar included in the Common Windows Controls package and can give a nicer look to your applications. It has a BackColor property,

Add an horizontal scrollbar to a ListBox control

By default, VB ListBox controls don’t display an horizontal scrollbar, so if the items you add to the controls are wider than the control’s Width, the end user isn’t able

The fmod() Function

The modulus operator can only be applied to integral types. To compute the remainder of two floating point variables, you have to use the fmod() function instead. Fmod() is declared

The Procedures Sort Add-In

The Procedures Sort Add-In is a great add-in for those who like well-organized code. You can use it to sort your procedures in the active CodeWindow alphabetically. It preserve all

VB IDE and ObjectContext

A myth that is still being spread in various VB and MTS/COM+ related newsgroups, is that an application can not obtain a reference to the MTS or COM+ ObjectContext in

SetMenuBitmap – Add a bitmap to a menu item

Private Declare Function GetMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hWnd As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib “user32” (ByVal hMenu As Long, _ ByVal nPos As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function

IsFormModal – Determines whether a form is modal

Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib “user32” Alias “GetWindowLongA” _ (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As LongConst GWL_STYLE = (-16)Const WS_DISABLED = &H8000000′ Return True if the form

Use a ListBox as a poor man’s grid

You can easily create columns of data in a ListBox control by setting its tab stop at appropriate positions. This way, you can use a ListBox control as a sort

Quickly find which OptionButton is selected

Often OptionButton controls are arranged in control arrays. To quickly find the index of the only selected OptionButton control you can use the following code: ‘ assumes that the control

Using VBA in Access 97 Development

When developing Access 97 applications using VBA, you may have problems porting your application to other computers. Run time errors can occur from basic VBA commands, especially when rolling out

Set Color of Tree Nodes

Using Swing, you can set the color of each node in Jtree. This is done by customizing your own TreeCellRenderer (overriding the DefaultTreeCellRenderer class), then calling the setBackgroundSelectionColor() method of

Testing for Closed Socket

Question: Is there any way to test if a socket is still open without writing to it? Answer: Despite being relatively easy to use, the Socket class is not implemented

Updating HTTP Headers

Question: In the first servlet we set the value for HTTP header as below: response.setHeader(“SessionKey”,”SessionValue”); In the next servlet we tried retrieving the above set header value as: request.getHeader(“SessionKey”); We

Estimate Your Web Document’s Printed Size

There are times when you’d like to know a little bit about how your Web page will print. For example, if you are dynamically generating reports, you can put a

Use a VB Label as a Web Link

I like the idea of clicking on a VB label that looks like a Web anchor and pops up the Web browser pointing the user to the page. Here is

Union Structure in Visual Basic

When using C++, the Union enables programmers to look at the same memory area from different perspectives. The same is possible in Visual BASIC. There is an LSET statement that

Sort The Contents of an Array

Private Sub BubbleSort(varArray As Variant, bAscending As Boolean) ‘Option Base 0 is assumed Dim HoldEntry As Integer Dim SwapOccurred As Boolean Dim iItteration As Integer Dim i As Integer SwapOccurred

Null Handling in VB6

A simple way to get around having to handle Nulls in fields from recordset is to concatenate a zero length string at the end of the field value, as illustrated

Validate Text to Numeric

Public Function ValidateTextToNumeric(ctlToValidate As TextBox)’**********************************’This function tests the validation’for Numeric value of a given text’**********************************Dim strTextToValidate As StringDim blnNumericValid As BooleanstrTextToValidate = ctlToValidate.Text’*** Validation would be TRUE, in all the

Populating Controls From a Recordset

On a form, basing populating controls on a supplied record may lead to error, because a perfect match is needed between the control tags and the field list. Any pre-specified