p.6 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.18 CLICKABLE IMAGES IN HTML
[author : Andrew Davison]
Adding "hot spots" to WWW home-page clickable images lets you link different regions of a picture to different actions. Andrew shows you how to do this using both forms and environment variables.
p.28 INSTALLING WINDOWS 95 PROGRAMS
[author : Al Williams]
Al presents a Windows 95 toolkit you can use to write installation programs in C, C++, and other languages. In the process, he examines tabbed-dialog property sheets.
p.40 SIMPLIFYING C++ GUI DEVELOPMENT
[author : Perry Scherer]
Widgets are user-interface controls that can be pulled intact into apps, saving you months of coding. Perry describes how he used off-the-shelf components to build a complex, 3-D visualization program in a very short time.
p.48 VISUAL BASIC BY REMOTE CONTROL
[author : Robert Sardis]
Bob discusses how to access Visual Basic control properties at run time, then presents a collection of access functions.
p.54 MIME AND INTERNET MAIL
[author : Tim Kientzle]
The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) automate the process of encoding binary data into a form compatible with existing 7-bit mail systems. This means that MIME provides enhanced mail facilities without rewiring the Internet.
p.62 PLUG AND PLAY RUN-TIME SERVICES
[author : Thomas A. Roden and Glenn E. Jystad]
Run-time services (detectable only in software) are central to Windows 95 Plug and Play capabilities. Our authors present a program that finds the Plug and Play header, then calls run-time services.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
p.68 ZERO-COPY INTERFACING TO TCP/IP
[author : Dana Burd]
The zero-copy interface supported by some real-time operating systems lets applications send and receive from the network stack without copying data copies. This results in significant performance benefits for real-time operations.
NETWORKED SYSTEMS
p.80 A VBX FOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS
[author : Frank E. Redmond III]
Frank presents a Visual Basic custom control (VBX) for User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a network protocol that relies on TCP/IP sockets.
PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH
p.88 IMPLEMENTING FLICKER-FREE MOTION
[author : Paul J. Martino]
To convincingly move an object across a screen, you need smooth motion without flicker. Paul uses Genus Microprogramming's graphics libraries and the Phar Lap 286|DOS-Extender under Borland C++ to implement flicker-free mouse motion that will operate efficiently in resolutions up to 800x600x24-bit color.
EXAMINING ROOM
p.90 EXAMINING C/C++ COMPILERS
[author : Tim Parker]
Tim looks at five C/C++ compilers for the Sparcstation, including those from SunSoft, Cygnus, Edinburgh, MetaWare, and Ready to Run.
COLUMNS
p.119 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael plays the numbers game in this month's column.
p.123 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
Al builds an electronics music system for Windows 95 and NT.
p.137 ALGORITHM ALLEY
[author : Bruce Schneier]
Just over a year ago, Bruce presented Blowfish, a block-cipher approach to encryption, and challenged you to break it. Here are some of the contest results.
p.141 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Want to go back to school, but can't find courses nearby that suit your needs? Maybe you should consider a nontraditional educational program such as those described in High-Technology Degree Alternatives or Bear's Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally.
FORUM
p.8 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.152 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]
PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES
p.150 OF INTEREST
[author : Monica E. Berg]