About code. Mostly on C++
[Update] Alchemy 1.7.5 is out, with support for Italian. I have released Alchemy version 1.7.4 with support for German. No other changes were made to the game. Currently, the game is available in the following languages (except for English): Romanian, Dutch, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, French, Danish, German. I want to thank all those that volunteered … Read more
Throughout January I have published on codeguru.com a series of articles about developing Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7. Here is the list of articles: Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 1 – Hello World Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 2 – The Application Bar Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 3 – Page … Read more
Well, if you didn’t know there was a Pirate English you can find it on facebook. Scroll to the bottom of the facebook page, click on the language link and select English (Pirate). A new world will unveil. For instance “What’s on your mind” becomes “What be troublin’ ye”, “Edit my Profile” becomes “Fix up … Read more
I’ve ran recently across this question: how to find (using C++) if a computer is a laptop? That is possible with WMI and many answers (such as this) point to the Win32_SystemEnclosure class. This class has a member called ChassisTypes, which is an array of integers indicating possible chassis types. At least one of them … Read more
At the beginning of this year I have posted a short questionnaire on concurrency on my blog. I have promised to publish the results, so here they are. The number of respondents was 27 (and not everybody answered all the questions). Q: What is your role in application development? Q: How many cores has your … Read more
Alchemy 1.7 brings a set of 20 new elements (tot a total of 400), allows you to display a timer with the total elapsed play time and is available in French. The 20 new elements are: Alcoholic Mirror Ashtray Peat Ball Rubber Caramel Samurai Clock ScotchWhiskey Firefighter Scotland Firefly Sugar Football SugarCane Juice SwissArmyKnife LightningRod … Read more
A window’s system menu (now called simply window menu) features by default commands like Move, Size or Close. (When the user selects one of these commands a WM_SYSCOMMAND message is sent to the window.) What if you want to remove and add these commands on the fly? Here is how you can do it. This … Read more
Starting with version 1.6 Alchemy is available in Hungarian. This update brings a new way of deleting elements: you can select elements from the desktop with the mouse while holding the CTRL key pressed and then removed them from the desktop by pressing the Delete key. When they are selected for deletion they are marked … Read more
Alchemy 1.5 brings a set of new elements (focused on countries), a reorganization of parts of the user interface, translation to new languages and some new features requested by the users. New elements 30 new elements have been added in version 1.5. Most of them are countries. The list of new elements is: Antarctica Germany … Read more
It is possible to register both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same COM server on 64-bit machine. This leads to several questions such as how are they registered and which one of the two is used. I will try to answer them below. But first, let’s start with an example. Example Let’s say we … Read more