I would like to, if possible, remove the pause command (accessed from the console) and replace it with my own pause program. Is this possible? In XP, anyways, there is no pause.com or pause.exe on...

Hi Experts: Developing on Win2K with VC6. DLLs are used on my system every day. I use DLLs in my applications. I've even written one, the example from the Petzold book. Import library, DLL,...

I'm working on making changes to a client's application, moving UI components from DLLs to separate EXEs. Part of the application is a function to switch back and forth between UI Windows at a...

Hi Is there a better way to convert wchar to char (or char to wchar) than: bool wchar2char(const WCHAR * psrc, int srclen, char * pdest, int destlen) { for (int i = 0; i < srclen; i++) { pdest =...

I have an application that spawns a secondary thread. This thread monitors removals of smart cards from the readers connected to my computer. When a removal is detected by the secondary thread,...

Hello, when you use Explorer to browse your hard disks and you are in "detailed list mode", there is a Type column with a short description on (known) file types. It might say "Movie file (mpgeg)"...

I like to have my program (running on my home machine) email me (wherever I am) whenever it reaches a certain mile-stone (finishes a phase of the simulation or runs into an interesting path in the...

I have a server (win 2000) where users from multiple locales need to log in. I have installed the locales and I am looking for a way to set the default locale depending on the users. I have a way to...

Hi All, I have implemented the functionality of a particular Dialog box using mfc based CDialog. Now I need to obtain the dialog/window proc from the earlier mentioned CDialog based class. This is...

Please help me understand some of the details of VM Validator I am new to looking in detail at my memory so any help would be greatly appreciated. I "attached" VM Validator to a running process and...

Its easy. Download srvany.exe ( http://www.electrasoft.com/srvany/srvany.exe ) Download instsrv.exe ( http://www.electrasoft.com/srvany/instsrv.exe ) Do Steps: 1. copy srvany.exe to a folder 2....

Hi, I'm working on gathering a list of network adapters on various windows systems using the SetupDi APIs. So far I can get a list of the adapters, their manufacturer, description, etc. However, I...

I have implemented the DELETE_ON_CLOSE technique described by Jeffrey Richter is 1996and also mentioned at www.catch22.org.uk. However the DELETE_ON_CLOSE is not behaving as expected. So i have the...

Hi Folks: I have an app that will pull a DLL from a vendor's install directory, but if I remove that copy, it won't pull the DLL from the directory with its own executable. What would cause...

Hi, i'm develop an avi-video plugin for an openGL based framework. The video part works fine, now i try to read out the audio data as buffered data to play them with openAL. I'know the concept of...

Thanks to anyone that can help me out with this. With a great deal of searching, I have finally figured out how to use enumWindows and enumChildWindows to retrieve windows handles and whatever text...

ANN: zOxygen Documenting Utility zOxygen is a "free of charge" Windows based utility that wraps around the Doxygen documentation tool. It is designed to simplify the document creation...

Hi guys... I would like to know, under "pure" win32 code (or mfc) how can I resolve the problem of overlapping controls !? (eg. 2 buttons controls, etc...) I noticed : MFC gui doesn't care about...

Hi, I would like to click on a web link and invoke my application immediately bypassing the "File download" screen. My data will have an uncommon extension such as ".ab7". Any ideas? Will

I was told on another newsgroup that starting in vc.net the std::string implementation no longer was refcounted. I can see for myself that it seems to be true. The rationale given to me was...