Hi All, We have an NT service implemented in VB (service pack 6) on the Windows NT 4 platform (service pack 6a). The NT service is implemented as a standard EXE which includes a DLL as a reference...

Hello. I've been having trouble creating a static Win32 library. My library is actually some personal extensions to the STL classes by mean of subclassing <string>, etc. I originally created it in...

Hello everyone, I'm a beginner to Windows programming, so this is most likely a very stupid question: I have created a rather small program which opens a dialog with some buttons and radio controls....

I have a program which prints fine when installed on Windows 95 and 98. I installed it on Windows 2000 system and it comes up with a different print dialog box (with large printer icons in it) and...

hi, this is in regarding the usage of Dependency Walker tool which is used to get to know the dll's associated with a particular exe. Now the thing is how can i limit the output of the tool to give...

I am using IFilter to filter some standard types of docs, for instance TXT and DOC. I am using LoadIFilter(sFileName, 0, &pFilter) to get the interface pointer. This works fine most of the time, but...

I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to create a dialog box with a drop list. I can add an item to the list by sending a CB_ADDSTRING message to the drop list but I can't seem to add items to the list...

Hi! My problem is that I wanted to add some performance to my application. I wanted to achieve this with the SetPriorityClass and SetThreadPriority functions bot I only get 1-2 percent of it. My...

Is there a way to detect when a drives contents are changing? I am hoping to make a program that displays all the files written to, and by which programs. Can anybody point me in the right...

Hi, I'm coding my very first control and it's going pretty well, except for one thing, it's not that big of a problem, but I'd like to avoid it. The problem is my control repaints itself when I...

Hi, I need to set a flag (integer/DWORD) in the OS so every program can read it. I can use registry / files for this flag but using a variable is preferred. (and if the computer restart the flag is...

Hi Experts: Developing in WIN2K, VC6, WIN32, no MFC. I want to find the path to WinAMP's install directory by looking in the registry. Posts in the WinAMP developer's forum about getting the path...

Hi, I have written a program that performs parallel computing through threads for a class project. I wrote this project in C++ and I have use the facade pattern to encapsulate the synchronization...

hi, all, I use EnumWindows to enumurate the windows. But I only need the user window, what can i do? thanks

I have created an application which contains a basic window, a listbox and a tabcontrol. My goal is to be able to get the WM_LBUTTONDOWN, WM_MOUSEMOVE, and WM_LBUTTONUP messages for the tab...

Hello, I'm having a hard time understanding hooks in win32. The best article (and sample) I found so far is http://www.codeproject.com/threads/winspy.asp . My understanding is that with...

In Windows XP if I'm over an icon (exe) a tooltip pops up showing the File Version. I edited in the resource file FILEVERSION 2,0,11,2 PRODUCTVERSION 3,36,20,13 FILEVERSION is shown at the top of...

Hi there, First of all, I'm very much a C++ amateur (i.e., a newb). I'm having to program a win32 system service for my employer, and I'm almost done with the task, but I need help with something...

Seeing that RichEdit controls were more trouble than help, I decided to ditch them and try and code my very own control to output simple formated text. I have pretty good ideas about how I'm going...

Hi, I can't get the TreeView_GetFirstVisible and then the TreeView_SelectSetFirstVisible to work as expected. The first visible is displayed randomly. Is there any window updates etc. I must to ?