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Hint Window leaves a shadow behind
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, When I display a hint window, and move the mouse away from it *quickly*, it disapears (as it should), but it leaves behind its shadow. This shadow won't go away even if I close my app. How can...

Handle of current arrow cursor
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 5 Comments

Hello r_z_aret@pen_fact.com, No, I'm using Windows XP and Visual Basic 6.

Changing the default hourglass cursor
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hello Grzegorz_Wróbel, There must be somethign else: I changed the call to LoadCursor to use IDC_WAIT and I still get the same behavior... :-(

adding spin control on dialog box
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Well of course you need to create the control, but you also need to do what I say before the creation will succeed: "It sounds like you need to add a call to InitCommonControlsEx...

Selecting an image
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi All, I want to select an image and want to perform the zoom in zoom out operation on it in EVC. Can anyone please tell me how i can do this

changing databases from MFC
Posted on October 17th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hi Jussij..yes I am using an ODBC driver to communicate with the database. Can you please explain more on the connection string....Thanks in advance. Ramakanth

ListBox Control with WM_VSCROLL
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

On 16 Oct 2006 00:21:15 -0700, "Ganesh Sathya Narayanan" <ganeshcm@gmail.com> wrote: array with an index variable) and use a next8/previous8 button instead to display only 8 items in the list. Then...

VB6+API => File opening lag
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

On 16 Oct 2006 04:16:56 -0700, "P Ern" <Pern.Walla@gmail.com> wrote: that.. I have not used it in years anyway. Use a number like 300 instead of infinite and loop around until your return...

Child dialogs on top of tab controls
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

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Windows 98 CreateProcess error
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Thanks a lot! I figured it out, all I needed to do was set the "Character Set" in the General section to "Not Set". It now works like all the examples I have ever seen! I'll worry about Unicode at...

Can I link in a large text file into my application
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 8 Comments

"sickfile" <spacerogue5@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1160990510.269205.71300@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com... Another alternative would be to use a suffix footer, that is had a WORD or DWORD after...

Detecting Shutdown before Nertwork is disconnected
Posted on October 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, When I receive the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message, the network seems to be disconnected already. I want to be able to send a small package indicating a shutdown. What can I do? --

[VS03/05c++] How to call extern variables from a C library
Posted on October 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Noel Mosa wrote: Then you should have: extern "C" AVFFORMAT* dummy; the compiler will cry now what is AVFORMAT, so what it is? A struct? If so: extern "C" struct AVFORMAT; extern "C" AVFORMAT*...

Problem with MCI playing mp3
Posted on October 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments

kazeroth wrote: You might try with waveOutOpen and friends. Something along the line of: #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #include <math.h>

Special folder paths for all users
Posted on October 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I would like to know if there is a way to programmatically find out the actual "special folder" paths for all users. Under the term "all users" i refer to all users that have at least once...

fatal error
Posted on October 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Jawad Rehman wrote: file is that the file is still opened by some other application. And the most likely reason for _that_ is that the first instance of your application is still running and the...

Why would this crash?
Posted on October 14th, 2006 | 7 Comments

David Jones wrote: written comes from windows game programming in 24 hours. Pretty good book but some of what was in that book may have not been good programming.

memory leak
Posted on October 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments

In MFC, there's a macro called DEBUG_NEW that's useful. You basically put code like this in your .cpp file after the includes and before the actual code #ifdef DEBUG #define new...

Enumerating physical monitors in horizontal stretch
Posted on October 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Is there a (hopefully) video driver independent way to enumerate physically attached monitors and get their resolutions even when the desktop is running in horizontal (or vertical)...

Scrollbar problem
Posted on October 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments

avedd wrote: Do you specify the SIF_DISABLENOSCROLL every time you use SetScrollInfo? If not, it could be the cause.