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Whenever you find .Scale(x) dimensions

TextBox1.ScaleTop
TextBox1.ScaleLeft
TextBox1.ScaleHeight
TextBox1.ScaleWidth

simply change it into .ClientRectangle.(x) form

TextBox1.ClientRectangle.Top
TextBox1.ClientRectangle.Left
TextBox1.ClientRectangle.Height
TextBox1.ClientRectangle.Width

Hope it helps.

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Option Explicit     
   
Private Type SYSTEMTIME '16 Bytes  
  wYear         As Integer  
  wMonth        As Integer  
  wDayOfWeek    As Integer  
  wDay          As Integer  
  wHour         As Integer  
  wMinute       As Integer  
  wSecond       As Integer  
  wMilliseconds As Integer  
End Type  
   
Private Declare Sub GetSystemTime Lib "kernel32" (lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME)  

Usage:

Dim NowTime As SYSTEMTIME  
Dim sYear, sMonth, sDayOfWeek, sDay, sHour, sMinute, sSecond, sMilliseconds As String   

GetSystemTime NowTime  

sYear         = Format(NowTime.wYear, "0000")  
sMonth        = Format(NowTime.wMonth, "00")  
sDay          = Format(NowTime.wDay, "00")  
sHour         = Format(NowTime.wHour, "00")  'wHour - or + X depends local timezone
sMinute       = Format(NowTime.wMinute, "00")  
sSecond       = Format(NowTime.wSecond, "00")  
sMilliseconds =  Format(NowTime.wMilliseconds, "000")   

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There were times when AfxMessageBox freezes my background process thread (socket communication, etc.) Here’s what I wrote as a quick and dirty solution. Put it in your StdAfx.h

You can refine it if you like.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ivo setyadi [12/10/2008 Development]
// a simple (or semi) modeless AfxMessageBox using MFC thread
// usage: 
// CMy my; 
// my.ModelessBox("your message");
class CMy
{
public:	
	void ModelessBox( CString str) 
	{
		char *buffer=new char[256]; 
		lstrcpy(buffer,str);		 				
 		AfxBeginThread(showMessage, (LPVOID *) buffer,   THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL) ;
	}	
	
	static UINT showMessage(LPVOID lParam)  
	{  
		if(lParam == NULL)
			AfxEndThread(NULL);
		
		char *pStr = (char *) lParam;
		AfxMessageBox(pStr);  		
		delete pStr; // don't forget
		
		return TRUE;
	}  
};

There.

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How to catch an OnMouseLeave event? Using TrackMouseEvent.
Here’s what I did:

in the CNewsBar .h

class CNewsBar  : public CToolbar
{
protected:
	BOOL m_bTraceMouse;
	afx_msg LRESULT OnMouseLeave(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
};

in the CNewsBar .cpp

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CNewsBar , CToolBar)
ON_WM_MOUSEMOVE()
ON_MESSAGE(WM_MOUSELEAVE, OnMouseLeave)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

CNewsBar ::CNewsBar ()
{
	m_bTraceMouse = FALSE;
}

void CNewsBar ::OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
	if (!m_bTraceMouse)
	{
		TRACKMOUSEEVENT tme;
		tme.cbSize = sizeof(TRACKMOUSEEVENT);
		tme.dwFlags = TME_LEAVE;
		tme.hwndTrack = this->m_hWnd;
		if (::_TrackMouseEvent(&tme))
		{
			m_bTraceMouse = TRUE;
		}
	}

	CToolBar::OnMouseMove(nFlags, point);
}

LRESULT CNewsBar ::OnMouseLeave(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	m_bTraceMouse = FALSE;
	return TRUE;
}

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Some interesting C problems 🙂
It’s on Gowri Kumar’s page.

Here’s one of the problem:

The following C program segfaults of IA-64, but works fine on IA-32.

int main()
{
	int* p;
	p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
	*p = 10;
	return 0;
}

Why does it happen so?

Check out the full article here:
http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.html

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