Hi, I have a win32 GUI program that spawns a thread function, mythrdfunc(), which is defined in a separate dll. The dll is originally an old rather large console program that is doing lots of...

Hi, I have a win32 GUI program that spawns a thread function, mythrdfunc(), which is defined in a separate dll. The dll is originally an old rather large console program that is doing lots of...

We have finished testing Oko. It now becomes shareware. You can download an evaluation copy and/or purchase a registered copy on-line: www.ploko.net. Oko is a development tool for building Windows...

Hello, I am calling InternetErrorDlg() and want the dialog to be top most, so I searched for topmost window of desktop, (and got this IME window - wndclass is MSCTFIME UI) and used it as parent (the...

I'm at a point where I want to choose a platform for migrating an existing application (which is written in C and mostly with a WIN32 eventloop, some home brewn cascade menus and dialog boxes -...

I'm subclassing STATIC, but my WndProc doesn't receive WM_GETFOCUS, WM_KEYDOWN, WM_KEYUP messages. Is there a way to overcome this behavior? I tried subclassing EDIT. However it changes cursor shape...

My intuition and reading what I can find on the Internet tells me that CreateWindow with the style WS_SYSMENU | WS_CAPTION | WS_THICKFRAME | WS_MINIMIZE should create a window with a minimize box and...

Hello, I am trying to use this API function to get informations about a HDD. But GetLastError allways return ERROR_MORE_DATA. I am also to silly to understand the description of...

I see lots of stuff in MSDN (admittedly an older version) documented like this: typedef struct tagEXTLOGPEN { UINT elpPenStyle; UINT elpWidth; UINT elpBrushStyle; COLORREF elpColor; LONG...

Hello, I have ReadFile reading from a serial port. In the DCB, I have set EofChar to '\n'. A multi-line text file is coming in the serial port. I want ReadFile to return on each '\n', but it won't....

I'm working with a file that was created using linux dd to create a dump of a fat32 file system. In other words, it has the MBR intact, and the location of the beginning of the FAT boot record is...

I am trying to fix a nasty bug in my CryptoAPI code. The symptoms are that CryptGenKey & CryptImportKey take quite some time (5-10 seconds) to run on some machines, but it works fine on mine and lost...

There is some piece of code: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var hndl :HWND; begin hndl:= FindWindow(nil, nameofwindow) ; SetForegroundWindow(hndl); PostMessage(handle, WM_KEYDOWN,...

Hello, forgive me my English. I'm lost. To confirm that I know how Windows is keeping information about files' associations in registry, I wanted to find out how it is with .txt files. On my system...

Hi, How can I know the full path of an external process under windows 95/98, like I do on WNT/2000/XP using GetModuleFileNameEx? I tried with GetModuleFileName, but I read that this return me only...

I'm looking for a method to pull data out of Excel cells and get notification of updates, using the COM automation stuff instead of DDE. This is in C++ -- we are successfully using RTD to get data...

Hi all, I'm working on a multithreaded application written in vc++ 6.0. The application works fine when executed in several operating system but in a machine with windows 2003 server operating...

I've been doing some investigation into resize repaints, i.e., when you drag the edge of a window, and Windows gives you continuous wm_resize and wm_paint messages to update the window while it is...

Posted August 16, 2005 12:56 I am developing on windows XP professional, with 512 Megs of ram, writing a console program in MSVC++ 6.0. I am writing a program that processes very large matrixes....

Hey. I'm working on a dll and I'm trying to export the Dll(Un)RegisterServer/GetClassObject/CanUnloadNow functions.... i've tried both the def file and the __declspec(dllexport) method and i still...