I play at https://wordlegame.org, as often as I want to. It's also nice to have your application. Thanks, Tom

One Two Three Infinity is great, if quite a bit dated. Look for books with simple experiments that a child can do; I had one of "101 Experiments for Young Scientists,' something like that. If you can, sit with her and teach her math and science that you think are a bit too advanced for her age. That's what my mother did with me, and I ended up with a Ph. D in physics, I think in no small part because of that help at an early age. Please no Dawkins; but I am biased, being a religious man. Electronics sets, chemistry sets (IF there are any good ones left to buy, I never see any), telescopes and microscopes, whichever she is interested in. Good luck, good for you to want to help! Tom

Hi, One good way to remove spikes is to use a median filter. Keep a window of the data, sort the values in the window, and use the one in the center of the range. Don't know if that is appropriate for a real time application, but we use it for seismic data post-processing all the time. Is that sleep-study data? I had to have one a few weeks ago, I have sleep apnea! Regards, Tom

I still use Visual C++ 6 occasionally. I recently built a new computer and used Windows 7 Professional as my OS. I started to install C++ 6, but got a warning message (I forget what it said, something about possible incompatibility!) Should I install the Win XP virtual machine and install C++ 6 there, or will it work under Windows 7?? Thanks, Tom

Thanks, I'll give it a try! It's just a "hobby" application that I want to write, not critical if it fails sometimes... Thanks, Tom

I'm not sure this is possible - is there a way that I can do the following - I'd like to modify the text in the the filename Edit box of a File Save dialog in a 3rd party program (for which I don't have the source code). Could I do this by using Spy++ to get the handle to the dialog and the Edit box, then use my code to modify the text? Thanks! Tom

I've written multithreaded code using MFC and understand that well. I'm working on a C# code in which I want to fill in an ArrayList with some data, using a separate thread, and then use the ArrayList data to populate a ListBox on my Form. Can someone point me to a good example of how to pass data back from a thread in C#? I've found some examples using BackgroundWorker ..., but I'm not sure if that is the only way, or the best way, etc. None of my C# books have anything but very simple threading examples. Thanks,

Tom

Hi, I am a "hobby" programmer with a lot of familiarity with pre-.NET C++ programming in Windows, but not too much with .NET. I've written a Form based Windows application and want to set it up so that the app monitors changes to clipboard data. Therefore, I need to call the Win32 functions SetClipBoardViewer, etc. (Or is there another way to do this in .NET that I haven't found)? As far as I can tell, I need to use the PInvoke mechanism with declarations something like: [DllImport("User32")] static int SetClipboardViewer(int hWndNewViewer); (I would think these should be HWND's, but the above is what I found.) My problem is that I don't know the correct declarations for these functions, and I don't know how to set up the calls to them. I found an example for C# that shows how to do the whole process of setting up a clipboard monitoring application, but I really want to learn how to do this in C++. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Tom

Well, I've found an answer that is workable and uses only Strings. There is a method String.Split() that lets one split the String into pieces - I use white space for the delimiter, and that gets me what I need without resorting to 'old' coding practices! Thanks, Tom

The only reason I haven't done that is that I thought there must be some .NET way to do it directly on the Strings, and I wanted to learn it.. (I don't have a deadline!) Thanks, Tom

I am new to the .NET framework, but have a lot of experience with C++ and MFC. I need to do a simple thing. I am using a StreamReader to read lines of text from an ASCII file. I then need to do formatted reads on the Strings^s I get. That is, I want to read substrings, integers, floats, etc, from each line. I guess I could convert the String to a char array and use sscanf(), but that seems dumb. I can't find any documentation on how to do this. Help! By the way, are there any good books on C++ .NET that go over the class library ... Thanks in advance, Tom

I've downloaded Visual C++ 2005 Express to get started learning how to code with .NET. I'm a fairly experienced Visual C++ 4-6 MFC programmer. I'd like to get a book written for someone with a good knowledge of C++ and MFC that gets me into .NET without all the introductory material that I don't need. For example, Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2005 has way too much intro material and not enough detail on the .NET classes, etc. Something like the Prosise book on MFC but applied to .NET would be nice... Does anyone know of a good book? Also, is it possible to purchase Visual C++ 2005 Standard edition, or do you have to get Visual Studio 2005? Thanks for any tips! Regards, Tom