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Complex initializations need only be done once and the result stored for later use. For example if you need to create a list of integer values and then load them,
Use J++ 6.0’s Localization feature to provide several language versions of your application. This new feature allows you to create separate resource files for every form in your application, and
You can consider Java to be a strong language with respect to internationalization and number formatting. Sometimes you might wish to format numbers in a specific locale or given a
The J++ 6.0 includes the ability to do conditional compilation, a mechanism for debugging code. J++’s conditional compilation allows you to include or exclude entire blocks of code at run
If you have a JTable where the values displayed in a particular columnare Integer objects, it will display the Integer values with commas(e.g. 98765432 is displayed as 98,765,432) if these
Computer science sophomores learn that recursion can neatly solve complex problems, e.g., Hanoi rings, wildcard handling, and parsing. In practice, however, recursion can be problematic for several reasons. First of
An assignment expression can appear inside an if condition: if (x = getval() ) { // do someting } The if condition is evaluated in two steps: first, the unconditional
A derived class’s member-initialization list can initialize any non-ambiguous member of its class, including base subobjects. Suppose you have a class C that is derived from B, which is in
By default, a typedef name declared in the global scope has internal linkage. This means that separately compiled source files can’t refer to a typedef declared in another source file,
An equality expression takes two operands, the second of which is often a constant or an rvalue: if (x==4) // 4 is an rvalue // .. do something if (y!=MAX_COUNT)
Question: If I try to open an Informix table in Microsoft Visual InterDev, which uses SCO Vision Ultralite ODBC driver on an NT4/SP4 IIS4 Web server, Visual InterDev hangs. Using
Question: I am trying to insert a string into a char(500) but get this error message: A quoted string exceeds 256 bytes. I’m using this for a Web site built
Question: I am receiving an error code of 0400 when a program is executing. I have been told that this is an SQL error code; however, none of the books
Question: I have been running Informix 7.22.TC1 successfully on Windows NT servers with the WebLogic 1.1 JDBC driver. On Web server restart, my application suddenly shows an error in connection
Ever since you were a little kid youve known that you should be careful with global variables, right? In this article I will try to motivate you once again why
You can use this JavaScript to get confirmation from the user before navigating to another page. Redirect
Question: I am trying to update an Access database with an ASP page. My ASP page contains a guest book with first name, last name, and other relevant text boxes.
Question: When declaring an unbounded array in my function’s parameter list, int a[], can I use the sizeof() operator to determine the array’s length at runtime? Answer: No, you can’t
Question: Is there anyway to have a variable number of arguments passed to a macro? Yes, I know it can be done with inline, but this is for debugging purposes.
Question: How do sessions work with clustered NT servers? How do you make use of clustering technology if an NT machine goes down along with its sessions? Is NT smart
A proxy server reduces the amount of time spent retrieving documents over the Internet. It does this by caching, or storing, the document in memory and then serving it from
I write apps for companies where computer know-how is at an all-time low. Most applications scare people to death. However, Web-style forms and graphic buttons present soothing enough interfaces that
You can use MSFlexGrid for data entry without using additional ActiveX controls. For this, use the KeyPress and KeyUp events. To use the MSFlexGrid for data entry, add the grid?named
Another useful STL algorithm is reverse(). This algorithm reverses the order of elements in a specified sequence. reverse() takes two iterators that mark the sequence’s beginning and end, respectively. Here
I researched Windows Script Components (WSC) and was interested in their capability to integrate with ASP. I tried integrating a VB DLL with ASP. I included a reference to the
Here’s a function that converts a decimal number (base 10) to another base number system. Each digit position corresponds to a power of N, where N is a number between
It was a question of time until a C++ virtual machine would appear. Implementing a Java-style virtual machine for C++ is a trivial task. The problem is that such a
Isolating the source of an error in a method containing many nested method calls can be difficult. If you haven’t written comprehensive error-handling code in every method and property you
In the following template member function, the parameter T can be a class or a built-in type: void vector< T >::resize (size_type new_size) { T val; // oops! What if
I’ve been working on a class module called clsDateInfo that returns various properties of a given date, and using it in some monthly trend graphs. I had to come up










