I need to write a program that mutes / unmutes the microphone in the windows xp volume control. What is the best language to write this in, or would a macro recorder be easier. Grateful for any...

Hi! I'm writing a Java app that will run on both Linux and Windows and it needs to get the average load of the System using native methods. On Linux I get and parse the output of the "uptime"...

hi, everybody, I wrote an idletime.exe which start a mouse hooke and keyboard hooke to calculate the idle time of the mouse and keyboard. Then I start it on a nt service. but it seems that it can't...

What is the #define needed to tell windows.h to include winsock 2 stuff ? it seems to include winsock 1.1 only. Or should I just continue to include winsock2.h before including windows.h ? read...

Hi Experts: Developing with Win2K, VC6, Win32, no MFC. Last week I posted a question about a problem I'm having when servicing the NM_CUSTOMDRAW notification for a ListView control. Another...

Hi everybody! I need to list SMALL icons (from windows' captions) of top-level windows. But I have a problem with a getting an icon of a dialog box. I can't generally get a dialog box's icon even if...

I doubt this it the right group for this question, but I can't seem to find any that are more applicable. Anyway, are there any APIs for development MSN Messenger plug-ins?

Hi to the gurus, Everything of the first c file works perfectly. The string ret is returned and printed has are the printf lines. The following modified code runs fine. The string ret is returned...

Would you believe it? The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a...

Hi, I've recently gotten into multi threaded programming as part of a application that streams audio, with a thread that is used to keep the Direct Sound buffer filled with data (pretty much straight...

Hi all, i am writing an App that reads from a barcode scanner.(an app with no output statments, i.e no window ) i want to find a way to send the barcode to an open window (such as Internet Explorer)...

Hi Experts: Developing on Win2K, VC6, WIN32, no MFC. I usually get myself into trouble, waste a bunch of time, and ask you folks to help me out. I'd like to save a little misery, and get some...

Hi all, I would like to send a message to all open Internet Explorer Windows to change thier title (and later, send a string to a text box in that IE window --clicked by a user-- i know that...

I have a looped recording thread. The code below works just fine in Debug configuration but doesnt in Release! It boils down to a single state function. I have a waveIn wrapper that I wrote. To...

I am writing code to allow tab controls to be dragged and dropped anywhere within the control using pure Win32 API. I'm trying to use a vector of TC_ITEM, but I've discovered a bug in the process. ...

Hi all, i wonder if it's possible to do a blocking read on a file. i hav an application which produces data which is written to a file by CreateFile() and WriteFile(). While producing this data I...

I know I've asked this before but I just haven't been able to figure it out. Dlls. Exporting functions. The compiler I use is mingw and not visual c or c++ so I don't have it's IDE features. This is...

I've used VC++ 6.0 and a third party API to produce some middleware to redistribute stock prices. It's a console app, and I've eliminated all memory leaks - at least MSDEV seems to think so. I'm...

Hi, can anyone point me in the direction of some information regarding win32 RPC in C? I have tried google but haven't found much that is useful, any information regarding this is...

I'm using Visual Studio 6.0 w/ SP6. I created a standard window app with the wizard. I want to add a second file to the project. After adding the file with the Project->Add To Project->Files, I...