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Named pipe: one client, some servers
Posted on September 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello all. I am working (kind of newbie) with named pipes (Win32). There is a question that seems very simple to answer , however I wasn't able to find an answer after hours of googling. Is it...

what is a detached process?
Posted on September 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi Master Magrath, You are correct. A detached process is a process that detaches from its parent. This basically means that if you are running a process under the console, it will detach itself...

WinXPSP2, Intel Core2Duo, Kernel drivers
Posted on September 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello, I write experimental drivers, and have never worked on SMP systems yet. I need to upgrade to an IBM T60 but I am worried about the dual-core Intel processor engine. I have the following...

Controlling Events of Another Application
Posted on September 6th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have Stand alone program .It may be service/demon. I insert another program to this demon as Thread. How it is possible to controll From the Main Program(Demon) the events of Instance which i...

Can someone explain this string mystery to me?
Posted on September 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Thanks for the emails! I can't belive I didn't figure this one out sooner. :) -Adam ajcrm125 wrote:

Escape sequences to USB printer
Posted on September 6th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Can someone please tell me the correct method of sending escape sequences to a USB printer. I am programming with Windows API functions. Cheers.

WM_RBUTTONUP & Modal dialog
Posted on September 6th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Don wrote: In a long thread in microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui entitled "Tree view issue with WM_LBUTTONUP" (8/23/2006) it was stated that a TreeView control "eats" the WM_LBUTTONUP message...

Spawned console redirection I/O problems. Buffer does not flush.
Posted on September 5th, 2006 | 1 Comments

<dan_mor@gmx.net> wrote in message news:1157443340.991856.28690@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... The only option is to force the child-process to flush it's output buffers. This would be achieved...

Messaging between threads
Posted on September 5th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Amod wrote: I hope you understand the difference between those two, one just queues a message while the other waits until the message is handled. The reason that SendMessage() messed up your program...

Deliberately make an application "Not Responding"
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 2 Comments

In article <SI1Lg.6859$WV2.1301@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, no.spam@for.me says... Just about anything that prevents its main message loop from responding to messages will do the job. One obvious...

time functions to get either unix or Javascript times
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 1 Comments

"Jason S" <jmsachs@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1157405833.459797.122910@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com... If you have a variant date (VT_DATE) and this date already is GMT, you can get unix...

Is a file local
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 2 Comments

It certainly does thank you Heinz.

Problem with CS_SAVEBITS class style
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 9 Comments

Michael K. O'Neill wrote: drop-down list. When I started reconstructing my project to get a minimal set of code, I found that it exhibited a problem similar to that which you described before I got...

GetDlgItemInt()
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I only see an integer value in the ctrl, but as you suggest there might be an extranious non numeric character in the string. I'll take a look at how I initialized the integer values in the ctrl. ...

Find which function called specific WINAPI function
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 1 Comments

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:15:50 +0200, "bim_bom" <julekmen@go2.pl> wrote: I don't know of any neat methods. I know of two methods that will work: 1) use grep to look through source code 2) hide the...

more command line parameters in windows
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 7 Comments

"Yandos" <fakemail@fakeisp.com> wrote in message news:44fc2234_3@x-privat.org... I actually searched sth like "send to menu", and recognized this article series from doodling with custom icons and...

OpenProcessToken(another usr process handle) not allowed outsideTCB?
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello Maybe you have an answer to this problem: Running as administrator I call (pseudocode): setPrivilege(thisProcess,"SeDebugPrivilege"); phandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, FALSE,...

Unique identifier per reboot
Posted on September 4th, 2006 | 3 Comments

ian.c.edwards@googlemail.com wrote: If you're still looking for an answer, here's another possible solution based on a current thread in alt.msdos.batch.nt: Use the last modified time of...

Tool: VS Code: Win32 API in C. Prob: code is working fast with wmplayer.exe
Posted on September 3rd, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi Friends, This is one of the amazing experience I ever had. I was working on a code written in C in Visual Studio . My code actually working wonderfully in Win98. I shifted the code to XP and now...

capture file output of child process
Posted on September 2nd, 2006 | 4 Comments

Bertel Brander wrote: Thanks, I gather I'm going to have to touch the source code for the client. That can probably be worked out. I've opened up another thread with a question in that...