Hi all, after my last posting, I received some information that original windows timers are limited by the internal clock precision which is normally set to 10 ~ 15 ms. I also learned that this can...

OK, this is not really a programming question, in the sense that we can do anything about it. But I am really curious as to what XP can be doing during shut-down that make it take about 2 orders of...

Hi Folks: Is there a method for a dialogproc is tell if it is displaying a modal or modeless dialog? Thanks Larry

Dear all, I have detected a very strange behaviour of the Windows scheduler concerning its latency. This can be illustrated by the code segment at the end of this mail. The code should simply read...

hai all I am a new member of your group.... i nee dsme help from u all... i need to write pseudocode for a program in Visual C++.... pls tell me what is ment by pseudo code? it will be so helpful...

hi, i am a unix programmer and want to do some win32 gui programming. years ago, i had some solid experiences on borland's rapid development tool Borland C++ Builder, i had never worked with any...

Hi, I have been using the stl from the Visual Studio .NET 2003 up until recently. We use the member function string::clear() throughout the code. Recently, we moved to the latest platform sdk...

Hi, Ive a dialog based app (non MFC) and am investigating a couple of memory leaks reported with _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks(); I execute _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks() as the final command at the end of...

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how much time a process spends using the processor resources: something equivalent to what is shown when running the unix time command. For instance, if the process...

Hi Group, I have a newbie question on the use of LOGFONT's lfWidth field. I would like to know its purpose. As an analogy , let's say I have a LOGFONT structure with lfWidth=13. This font is set...

My app is Win32 (VC++ 2003) and I want to populate a treeview from a text file. The text file stores the items as: M;Media;Sound M;Media;Graphics M;Mouse (this string is parsed using the ; as a...

Hello, In order to implement non blocking sockets in a high priority thread, I have to get windows messages from the queue and then to dispatch it (this is the classic message loop). The problem is...

Hello, I have created some 256 colour 16*16 icons to be used in a (report view) listview control, somehow they get converted to 16 colour on display. I am using m_hIcon = (HICON)LoadImage(hInst,...

hi, I have a dialog box with edit box.After i input a value into edit box and use GetDlgItemText(hWnd, IDC_EDIT1, "xxxx",10); i want to display it in a message box .And instead of "xxxx" i want to...

I'm able to load 2 icons into an imagelist for my treeview and get different icons for selected and non-selected states. But how do I get a different icon for each item? Changing the index seems to...

I am trying to write a program that contains a window. Right now it is not working and I would like to debug it. The problem that I have is I want to see what the values of some variables are at...

Hi Folks: Is there a WIN32 function to find the non-child window in the parent hierarchy of a window or control? SetWindowPos() fails to to put a dialog in Z order behind a child control or...

I am creating a system tray icon that shows up a bunch of menus on right click. I try to populate a pop-up menu with the following function. void CPimonTray::populatePopupMenu(HMENU...

Hi Folks: Developing on Win2K, VC6, WIN32, no MFC. Needs to run on Win98 and later. I want to detect a right mouse button down, and up, on the edit box or an item in the drop down list of a...

Hi, First post here. I hope I have the right place. I've written a program that collects security descriptors from files and folders and then stores the SDs so that I can reapply them later....