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Clicking on Radio button hangs for MFC based dialog Application

If your application is hanging when you click on a Radio button, must probably you have set the Auto property (under Appearance in Visual Studio Dialog designer) of Radio button to TRUE. Setting AUTO should have worked… but for some reason it does not work for you causing hangs then it could be a bug [...]

Friday, November 12th, 2010

zFeeder – Making PHP 5.3 + compatible, solving ‘Function ereg_replace() is deprecated’

You may want to check ZebreFeed – web-based RSS/ATOM aggregator on PHP5, based on zFeeder 1.6 The latest zFeeder 1.6 uses couple PHP functions – ereg_replace and set_magic_quotes_runtime, which are deprecated in PHP starting from version 5.3. These function will no more be supported from PHP 6.0 onward. How to solve “Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is [...]

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Fix for mergelog, fails with error “abort due to a problem” for dummy records of apache access logs

Download the fixed package If you are getting “abort due to problem” for apache access logs for dummy records when your run mergelog (or zmergelog) then you fix the problem as follows: 1. Open mergelog.c file under src folder 2. Look for #define SCAN_OFFSET 9 3. Change it to #define SCAN_OFFSET 7 That’s all. The [...]

Monday, December 14th, 2009

How to catch copy paste from explorer using shell extension? ICopyHook alternative for files and folder

Handling copy paste/cut paste event from explorer using shell extension…
Solution to :
1. How to catch copy paste from explorer using shell extension? ICopyHook alternative for files and folder
2. Howto trap copy paste event from explorer to do your custom processing or even
3. Howto replace/substitute the copy-paste/cut-paste operation with your own copy or move or anything else

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

How to convert ASCII/UNICODE string to hex string? Function/API to convert to hex string

Code snippet/API/function to convert a ASCII/UNICODE string to HEX

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009