Chris Szurgot's Blog

Call me lazy, but I use the designer as an ad-hoc reference tool.

While moving AutoScroll = true from a form into a contained panel (the purpose being to add a status panel at the bottom), I found that the panel won't scroll with the wheel any more, so I've got to do it by hand.But I had to dig around to find the MouseWheel event, because it's not exposed to the designer.

Followup: Rather than do it by hand, just calling the subpanel's OnMouseWheel solved the problem. It meant I had to inherit the Panel class, and expose a function to do the bubbling, but as I'd already had the panel subclassed, it was 3 lines of additional code instead of trying to figure it out on my own.

... when you add Ctrl-Z to stand for Undo even though you already have Ctrl-U.

I am finally able to release a version of Solitaire that I've been working on for some time now. I blogged about it earlier[1], but the link was inactive due to hosting issues.

The game itself, with card logic has been working for quite a while, but it's been a major problem drawing the cards, and getting everything to play naturally. I finally had a break-through due to an old post about Blitting bitmaps, so I'm releasing version .9 for comments, while I fine-tune and add a few more variants.

You can find it at http://www.szurgot.net/projects and it's the first one on the list.

And I've written a rambling article[2] on some of the methods I've tried to draw the cards in a quick manner.

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/cszurgot/posts/23024.aspx

[2] http://weblogs.asp.net/cszurgot/posts/30563.aspx

Regarding Geek Plates: (http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/anathan/permalink.aspx/30f25917-5b1e-4760-b5da-e6b6b6b1dbce)

My last car had the plate “0 2 CODE”, which puts my feelings right out there.

Only reason I say ex-plate is because I traded the car in, and bought my wife a jeep, and haven't felt like customizing my current one.