Interesting view. At least for books (printed) in the US it is well established that lending a book to another is fair use. It is similar to lending someone a screw driver. Same issue arose when places started renting movies on tape/dvd. In the US that was settled by requiring that stores purchase it at a much higher price. Depending on what period of time one looks at newspapers (printed) they vary making money from actually buying the paper, to ramping up on advertising revenue and then now, at least in the US for most major papers, trying to squeeze every penny out of diminishing readership. Certainly for much of that time reading it in a library was not considered a problem that I ever heard about. The ads that were not in the inserts were still there. I have read newspapers in a library - I cannot recall ever seeing inserts. Microfiche newspapers also contained the ads. But one could suppose the sale price no longer applied.

Interesting, thank you. Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

Quick follow up (he's really losing it, isn't he?): [Elon Musk's Twitter ultimatum: Go hardcore or go home • The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/musk\_twitter\_ultimatum) I already read that he has told all his staff that they can no longer work from home (*at all*). Two fisted management at its best, just the perfect way to induce burnout :( [Edit] Oh I see this is in todays' CP's mailing. Well spotted guys. Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

Ha! No, bang to rights lol Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

That's not the one I meant actually (reckon you know that), but I took a listen and I rather like it. I'm loving the Abba look they're sporting there. Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

❤️ Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

I put Stardock on equal footing with Apple (and that's quite an accomplishment). They've rubbed me the wrong way decades ago and they'll never get a penny out of me.

Toys and pram well and truly no longer acquainted with each other. Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

Yes, it's a bargain. Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

CPallini wrote: Did they also try to rewrite the Linux kernel [in C++]? Hope not! Paul Sanders. "Life is a minestrone" - which I take to mean that it's full of different bits and you should try to savour them all. I think that's pretty neat, I like that analogy. And if you don't mind, here's a quick plug for my little one-man business. Follow the link if you're interested in ripping your vinyl collection: www.alpinesoft.co.uk. Thanks.

And just in case anyone else is as blinkered as you, OriginalGriff's post (and my response) are here: [The Lounge](https://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5873873#xx5873873xx) So people, if by any small chance you're bothered about any of this, you can judge for yourselves. Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk "Life is a minestrone" - sure thing, but what does that actually mean?

OK, here's my collection of horrible hacks. The hWnd parameter is the window you have just resized. hPaintWnd is the window you are going to draw into. On XP, these can be the same (but not under Aero). gIsXP is false on Windows 2000 (where PrintWindow is not supported), true on XP and Vista. The rest you already know. GetRelativeWindowRect is the most useful helper function I ever wrote, by the way. Good luck! #ifndef PW_CLIENTONLY #define PW_CLIENTONLY 0x00000001 #endif . extern "C" { typedef WINUSERAPI BOOL (WINAPI * tPrintWindow) (HWND hwnd, HDC hdcBlt, UINT nFlags); } . // GradientWindow::SmoothUpdate - repaint this window without flicker void GradientWindow::SmoothUpdate (HWND hWnd, HWND hPaintWnd) { if (!IsWindowVisible (hWnd)) // but beware WM_SETREDRAW (TRUE) return; . RECT wr; wr.left = wr.top = 0; if (hWnd != hPaintWnd) GetRelativeWindowRect (hWnd, hPaintWnd, &wr); hWnd = hPaintWnd; . RECT ur; GetClientRect (hWnd, &ur); ValidateRect (hWnd, &ur); . int width = ur.right; int height = ur.bottom; . RECT r; GetWindowRect (hWnd, &r); POINT pt = { 0 }; ScreenToClient (hWnd, &pt); int x_offset = -pt.x - r.left; int y_offset = -pt.y - r.top; width += x_offset; height += y_offset; . for ( ; ; ) { DWORD style = GetWindowLong (hPaintWnd, GWL_STYLE); if ((style & WS_CHILD) == 0) break; HWND hParent = GetParent (hPaintWnd); // else Aero doesn't draw if (hParent == NULL) break; hPaintWnd = hParent; } . HDC hDC = GetDC (hPaintWnd); assert (hDC); wr.left = wr.top = 0; if (hWnd != hPaintWnd) GetRelativeWindowRect (hWnd, hPaintWnd, &wr); . HDC hMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC (hDC); assert (hMemDC); HBITMAP hBitmap = CreateCompatibleBitmap (hDC, width + wr.left, height + wr.top); assert (hBitmap); HBITMAP hOldBitmap = (HBITMAP) SelectObject (hMemDC, hBitmap); . // We prefer not to use WM_PRINT because: // (a) it does not paint themed window borders correctly // (b) URLControl's don't highlight the selected text // (c) brush origin problems on Windows 2000 (but no gradients there anymore, so OK) if (!gIsXP) // no PrintWindow () on Windows 2000 SendMessage (hWnd, WM_PRINT, (WPARAM) hMemDC, PRF_ERASEBKGND | PR

fredsparkle wrote: Ok time to write the artical and post it! sorry, still working on the last requested feature.... ;P ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

Well it's up to you to decide but I'm completely unbiased and I firmly believe that if you have a powerful enough machine with enough memory and a fast enough hard drive you will find Vista loads faster, runs applications faster and is more secure that Windows XP. I also believe that Microsoft underestimates how powerful a machine is required and so buying a low end laptop or desktop computer to run Vista eve if it says it's vista approved is a mistake. All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.