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Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that QueryPerformanceCounter never fails
about 16 hours ago
In the documentation that describes the high-resolution timestamps, there is a question-and-answer...
Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media
1 day ago
As you may have noticed, sometimes I waste time gathering useless information...
What sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL?
2 days ago
I noted in the bonus chatter that if you have a control...
Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, fine-tuning the message filter
6 days ago
Last time, we used a MSGF_DIALOGBOX message filter to hook into the...
Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, installing the message filter
7 days ago
Last time, we saw that one way to intercept the ESC in...
Intercepting messages before IsDialogMessage can process them
8 days ago
Last time, we looked at recognizing that the user clicked the Close...
Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway
9 days ago
We started by exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing...
Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt
10 days ago
Last time, we saw that GetAsyncKeyState is not the way to detect...
The 2026/2027 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance
13 days ago
For two decades, I’ve put together a little pocket guide to the...
Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt
13 days ago
Suppose you want to distinguish between dismissing a dialog by pressing ESC...
Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog
14 days ago
There are a few different built-in ways to close a dialog box...
Could WriteProcessMemory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer?
15 days ago
A little while ago, we wondered whether WriteProcessMemory was faster than shared...