Dec 12, 2025 Post comments count2 Post likes count1 Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table Raymond Chen Who goes first?
Dec 11, 2025 Post comments count6 Post likes count2 Studying the various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis Raymond Chen If they don't match, then the 8-bit strings are basically broken already.
Dec 10, 2025 Post comments count1 Post likes count1 How does Windows synthesize the CF_LOCALE clipboard format? Raymond Chen Getting it from a place that might have been obvious in the past, but maybe not today.
Dec 9, 2025 Post comments count2 Post likes count1 How does Windows synthesize CF_UNICODETEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? Raymond Chen Let's ask the locale.
Dec 8, 2025 Post comments count12 Post likes count1 How does Windows synthesize CF_OEMTEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? Raymond Chen Starting with the easy case, or at least it looks easy.
Dec 5, 2025 Post comments count10 Post likes count3 How can my process read its own standard output? Raymond Chen You'll have to trick yourself before anybody notices, which may not be possible.
Dec 4, 2025 Post comments count4 Post likes count1 How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? Raymond Chen You can't. You'll have to do it before the process starts.
Dec 3, 2025 Post comments count6 Post likes count5 How do I check whether the user has permission to create files in a directory? Raymond Chen Request the directory security attributes that correspond to your proposed operation.
Dec 1, 2025 Post comments count0 Post likes count2 How do I get my edit control text to be autoselected when I choose it to be the default focus in my dialog? Raymond Chen Remembering some old APIs.
Nov 28, 2025 Post comments count8 Post likes count5 How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? Raymond Chen You can ask for its handle and mark it read-only.