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Archive for June 1, 2008
How to include special characters in string?
Jun 1st
In C++ programs, sometimes you’ve to add special chars to your strings. For instance a copyright message – “Copyright © WeSeeTips.com”. If your editor like Visual Studio support unicode, you can directly paste it to the source. But not all editors are unicode aware. So what’s the safest method?
You can use C++ escape sequence – \x. The \x followed by hexadecimal value of char will insert that char to the string. For instance the hex of © is oxA9. See how it can be added to a string.
// 0xA9 is the hex for copyright symbol.
const TCHAR* pCopyright = _T("Copyright \xA9 WeSeeTips.com");
AfxMessageBox( pCopyright );
Its worth reading about trigraphs chars at this moment.
http://weseetips.com/2008/03/25/trigraph-char-sequences-in-c-c/
Targeted Audience – Beginners.
Is it outlook, who composes your "New Message"?
Jun 1st
In Windows machines, outlook is so popular as email client. Did you notice that, in outlook while composing new mails, you can see a lot of look alike features from MS Word such as spell check, grammar check, Synonyms etc. So outlook reuses the cool word features in its email composer? Or Is it outlook itself who composes the mail?
Actually its MS Word who composes the outlook messages. Patience! I’ll show you. Follow the steps.
1) Close all winword instances.
2) Now compose a new mail and you’ll get the following dialog. In that dialog close it clicking the “X” as shown in figure.
3) Now check, the message composing interface changed to that of MS Word.
4) if you check the process of “new message” by using task manager, it will point to winword.exe process. Just right click the “new message” and select “Go to Process”.
If you won’t close all MS Word instances, while closing the “new message“, it won’t show the winword container. It will close the entire window and focus to the next word instance.
winword under outlook wrapper… Interesting fact… isn’t it?
Well, what will happen if you don’t have MS word installed? In that case, Outlook will use its default email editor. You can forcefully do it by the option( in Outlook 2003 ) – Tools > Options > Mail Format Tab > Message Format Section > “Use Microsoft word office 2003 to edit email messages”.
Targeted Audience – Beginners.
