I’ve been working on an MFC project which embeds a basic web-browser component in a dialog. It does this using a Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX component. The control should hook into whatever versi...
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Changing the emulation mode of the Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX control
NSIS Access Control problem with built-in users group
I was dealing with a subtle issue recently involving setting access permissions on Windows using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). It turned out that the problem was not with NSIS at all. ...
What is a serial-to-parallel shift register?
A serial-to-parallel shift register (or SIPO: Serial In Parallel Out) lets you take a series of signals on one output and split them up into several separate outputs in parallel. For example, if yo...
Automatically output the callstack on a breakpoint in Visual Studio
When you’re dealing with a large program and multiple developers, it’s not always obvious how and when certain things get executed. One of the very useful ways to debug unexpected behaviour is to s...
Understanding C++11 move semantics
If you’re a programmer, you’ll hopefully be familiar with the difference between making a copy of an object and making a reference (or a pointer) to it. The former duplicates the data, resulting in...
C++11 auto variables
The C++11 standard introduced the auto keyword for type deduction. One of its main uses is to make variable declarations more concise. It can also improve the maintainability of code if used correc...
Improve C++ performance in debug mode with inline expansion
When you’re dealing with an intensive real-time application, such as a game or simulation, a common problem is that debug builds in C++ can run much slower than release builds. This difference in r...
Introduction to Win32 Named Pipes (C++)
There are times when it’s extremely useful to be able to pass some data between different programs running on the same system. For example, you might have multiple programs forming part of the same...
Running chapter headers in Microsoft Word
I’m in the process of writing up my doctoral thesis, and have had to wrestle with a lot of Word formatting. The biggest difficulty I had was separating the whole document into chapters. I wanted ea...
avidscript lives!
As I’ve mentioned on some recent posts, I’ve been working on developing my own compiler and virtual machine lately. And finally, it lives! It’s taken 5 months, with some language revisions along th...