CSS

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Apr 222004
 

Boy, is creating a decent skin/stylesheet a difficult task. It’s not that difficult to place a navigation bar / sidebar to the left in a stylesheet, but hey, I want it on the right. The problem I’m experiencing now is that a “position: fixed” will keep it on its place, no matter what other content scrolls by. Without the “position: fixed”, the sidebar is displayed after all other content, basically becoming a footer. Perhaps there’s too much old stuff (from Planque) in there that should be removed first. I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

 Posted by at 00:34

1st page 2000: HTML Editor

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Apr 212004
 

Anybody coding in HTML once in a while or at a regular basis should have a look at the FREE HTML editor “1st page 2000”. I think this is a must-have. From their website:

Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its powerful tools let you author websites faster, easier and better! Most new builders don’t realize the time they’re losing by relying on traditional based text editors like WindowsTM Notepad to author their sites. Whether you’re a beginner or an HTML guru you’ll find 1st Page 2000 great to use!

I think they’re right.

 Posted by at 12:37

OUAU 1.1.0.0

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Apr 202004
 

OUAU should now work for all Office versions, and you can select the Office version (if for some reason you have partial Office installations) and it will reread and write the appropriate registry-entry.

Changes

  • Ability to change Office version by using the radiobuttons
  • Added link to this blog in context-menu

To do

  • Close the application when unsupported Office version is detected (detection and errormessage is already in place)

ouau has no effect?!

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Apr 202004
 

I tried ouau here at work, and we’re using Office 2002/XP. It finds the correct Office version, I’m able to make changes to the blocked extensions, which I can verify by restarting the program: it finds the new settings. But the new registry-setting resort no effect: right-click and send-to-mail-recipient of a unblocked extension (e.g. .EXE) still results in Outlook saying that the attachments are potentially unsafe. What’s going on here? Something to do with (group)policies?

Update: I think I already know: Exchange administrators can add/remove Level 1 and/or Level 2 extensions within the Exchange-server settings. This can not be overruled by the Outlookclient. So, I guess I’ll have to find another way to test other Office versions.

ShellExecuteEx

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Apr 202004
 

Yesterday I was working on an application (not WRap) that works with RTF documents. I load them into a RichViewEdit, and the user has the ability to do basic editing. To enable full-scale editing, I thought it would be nice to have a button that started Word with the appropriate document. So far so good.

Word opens, the document is loaded, document can be amended, saved, whatever. Exit Word. Oh my, I have to reload the document into my RichViewEdit. Easy. But…hey…wait a second. How do I know if the user is done editing in Word?

[Google searching heard in the background]

I found this page that basically has the answer. And indeed, basically it works. The program starts Word with the correct document, and if I close it, I’m back in my application. But…whenever I change the document and close Word (Do you wish to save…blablabla) something goes wrong. Word does not close, and I have to close it via CTRL-ALT-DEL. I can’t figure out what goes wrong, since the flow works whenever I don’t change the document. What’s the difference?

 Posted by at 10:16

Just a Grammar Master!

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Apr 192004
 

Master!
You are a MASTER of the English language!

While your English is not exactly perfect,
you are still more grammatically correct than
just about every American. Still, there is
always room for improvement…

How grammatically sound are you?
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 Posted by at 23:57

DirectX 9 shooter in 96kbyte!

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Apr 192004
 

Proving that you can do something better than somebody else is part of human’s nature. But to create a 3D shooter a-la Doom in just 96kbyte is unthinkable nowadays. But it’s true! Now where is that old floppy disk I had two years ago?

Trust me when I say: only seeing is believing. Several weapons, powerups, dynamic lightning (projectiles glow and cast shadows!), several enemies (although not too hard to destroy), sound, it is all there!

 Posted by at 13:49

XS4all blogging

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Apr 192004
 

XS4all, one of the bigger Dutch ISP’s, offers users a .Text-based weblog. Since the service has just started, a lot of post are in the category “just testing” and “this is me”, but we’ll keep an eye on it. Perhaps there’s something worth mentioning.

 Posted by at 13:19

Language

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Apr 192004
 

As you might have noticed, the last posts all have been in English. I think I will keep it that way. The blog-language-setting is still “Dutch”, but that’s because I don’t like the way “English” displays the dates and times. This setting will change (so you will have English fieldcaptions) when I created my own skin that solves some of these quircks.

Speaking about skins: the b2e-skins are compliant to all sorts of standards (see bottom of the mainpage), but looking at the CSS-files and template-files (PHP) used, I can only conlude they made a mess of it. I’ll see if I can change that in my skin.

 Posted by at 13:06
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