I have a web page which contains a select box. When I open a jQuery Dialog it is displayed partly behind the select box. How should I approach this problem? Should I hide the select box or does jQuery offer some kind of 'shim' solution. (I have Googled but didn't find anything) Here is some code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <hea...
uhm im not sure if anyone has encountered this problem a brief description is on IE6 any <select> objects get displayed over any other item, even div's... meaning if you have a fancy javascript effect that displays a div that's supposed to be on top of everything (e.g: lightbox, multibox etc..) onclick of a certain element and that div ...
I ahve a menu structure that uses UL and LI elements to drop down from a main menu. The problem i am having (of course) is in IE6 where the menu drops behind SELECT elements despite the z-index. I have tried adding an IFram shim to the UL which contains the LI elements which are the menu items. The problem is the Shim sits on top of t...
I have created an automation addin in C# .NET and have a shim dll for it. The shim dll has all the User Defined methods in it that calls the appropriate methods in the .NET assembly. The problem that I am facing is related to Excel 2007. In Excel 2003, 1. Add a new shape to a worksheet 2. Insert >> Function >> SUM. The Function argum...
In Vista, we can create a shimming .sdb file to force e.g. XP compatibility. You can also do some stuff in a manifest file you embed in your executable. Are there any command line options or environment variables that can be set to force these settings. I found some references to WinAmp to do this, but is there an overview of all possib...
I'd like to intercept the COM CoCreateInstanceEx and/or CoGetClassObject functions to replace a class with a testing shim in a unit test. This will only be for a single CLSID; all others can go through unchanged. Is there a way to do this without horrible, evil hacks? ...
Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft added a class of compatibility shims that will allow an application that assumes it has administrative file and registry access to continue to function. In other words: An application that failed on Windows XP would run on Windows Vista. These OS provided bug-fixes can be disabled by adding a sec...
Windows has the capability to apply shims to mis-behaving applications. Shims are used to intercept API calls and change it. For example, shims can be used to: change the incoming paramters lie about the return values change it to call something else The Application Compatibility Tookit has quite a few existing shims you can apply to...
I am developing an Excel addin that has an udf and calls it as a worksheet function. It is a com addin where I am using the IDTExtensibility2 interface and set the class interface type as autodual and then shim it as in the link http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2006/07/23/excel-interop-types-in-shimmed-automation-add-ins.aspx Thing...
Hi, I have an application(.exe) and its SDB file, and now I want to bundle it into an MSI package for deployment as a installer. How can I create the msi package? Are there any tools? can it be done in Visual studio? ...
I need to create a shim for the entire page to capture click events, but the shim must not stop other events like mouseover etc on the other html elements on the page. I have solution that sort of works, but I am having a couple of problems with it: Whenever I click on the page, if I click directly on some text, the click event of the s...