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Question: I am using VC++ 5.0 to develop applications based on Windows 95. I want to get the HWND of the active window, which is receiving the keyboard or mouse
Question: Could you give me an exact definition of smart pointers, and how does a reference counting smart pointer work? Answer: I don’t believe there is an exact definition, since
Question: Can you have both versions 5 and 6 of FoxPro installed and make applications that work with either versions 5 or 6? I want to make an app for
Question: I’ve written a program using MFC that uses toolbars. I have an event that I want to change the state of some of the toolbar buttons (disable them, to
Question: I am attempting to use OLE between PB5 and Word97. I want to add two fields into the header of the document. I want to add the Page number
Question: How can I bring an open application to the foreground (that is, move the PowerBuilder app back a layer). Answer: To bring another application to the front, you will
Question: I have two Visual FoxPro applications (App1 and App2) running in the same computer. App2 runs every 30 minutes. When App2 runs, App1 is slow because App2 consumes lots
Question: How can I access the usercontrol’s left and top properties from within the user control? Answer: Certain standard properties such as top and left are provided to a control
Question: What is wrong with this picture? Private Sub cmdIXEDMtest_Click() Dim con As New ADODB.Connection Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset Dim s As String Dim constr As String On Error
Question: I have several SQL Server scripts that either CREATE or RUN stored procedures in a SQL Server database. I need to run these files (which I have in .txt
Question: I have a table where after an import from an ASCII, I see some funny characters in some fields. After using asc(), I show that the characters where the
Question: I am using Visual FoxPro 5. Is it possible when exporting a table to a text file to have the field names exported on the first line of the
Question: The setup wizard gives the capability to the end user to change the directory into which the setup will copy the files. How can I prevent this? If the
Question: How can I determine the total time it takes for a set of threads to execute? Answer: When you time a set of threads, you generally want to know
Question: How can I pass or send a mousedown to a choice menu when a button is pressed? Answer: Sending an event to an AWT component is as simple as
Question: Does SQL have a function to get only the time–rather than getDate()–which gets the date and time, or a function to get the Unix time() time. (the one that
Question: I am trying to interface VBA with a C++ DLL. I am very new to C++ programming. I understand the declarations from the VBA side, but I am having
Question: I’d like to get a bitmap file (c:mypic.bmp) placed on a MS Word97 file (msfile1.doc) using Powerbuilder (6.5). I am interested in printing that file afterwards. Answer: The following
Question: I have written a videoshop program in C++. I need to be able to delete a video structure off the disk. At the moment, the user enters a video
Question: The new java.net.Authenticator class in JDK 1.2 seems to be the answer to generalized user-authentication. Why dogetPasswordAuthentication andrequestPasswordAuthentication both return PasswordAuthentication, butrequestPasswordAuthentication requires a security check? Answer: The getPasswordAuthentication
Question: Why do I have problems running some programs with Java 2? Answer: Many Java class libraries and programs written before Java 2 use a technique called obfuscation to make
Question: Is there any way to catch exceptions repeatedly, instead of just once? For example, when creating a Date object with a String, an IllegalArgumentException can begenerated and caught. In
Question: Is it possible to connect and disconnect a Microsoft phone dialer that calls my Internetservice provider from a VB program? Answer: It sure is, and VB makes it very
Question: I would like to know how I can add, remove, and see if an item is in the TreeView control. For example: Prism Pros 4/30/99 7:39AM 4/30/99 8:00AMMcFarley 4/30/99
Question: What happens in the Form Load? If I try to retrieve information from a database (using a DataControl and TextBoxes connected to the database), I can’t get the program
Question: In a program, I’m calling a function in a dll. The time before that function is finished can vary from a few seconds to an hour, depending on the
Question: How do I create an online help system to use in VB6? Answer: Try the HTML Help Workshop that ships with VB. It allows you to create a help
Question: When I try to register a DLL I created in VB6, I get the message that tells me the DLL is not a valid windows NT image. At the
Question: Is there a maximaum length of an SQL program? I have used the query designer in Visual Foxpro 3.0 with many lines of criteria. When I try to run
Question: I have a grid control on a form in Visual Foxpro. I want to keep it unbound and then later fill it with data. I set the recordsource property