Category Archives: Coding

What’s wrong here?

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Ian Brockbank

What’s wrong with these doors?

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What difference does a couple of seconds make?

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Ian Brockbank

Two seconds. It doesn’t sound a long time, does it? Who worries about a couple of seconds? Maybe you should.

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Design documentation – do you need it?

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

In the beginning there was me. And I created a tool. And the tool was good. Well, it was better than the ad hoc interfaces we had used before, mostly based on internal test applications. It had a generic structure … Continue reading →

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Copying Windows EMFs in code

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Ian Brockbank

Does SetEnhMetaFileBits still reference the buffer after the call finishes? Neither MSDN nor Google could tell me. Here’s the answer, along with a routine to copy an enhanced metafile in memory. Continue reading →

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