Hello. I'm using 'gcc 3.2' on 'MS Windows 2000 SP2' with 'cygwin-1.5.9-1' installed. I'm trying to build a simple socket app: ------------------//---------------- #include <sys/types.h> #include...

Hi all, I have a conceptual problem, maybe somebody has an idea how I could solve it ... I have an application let's call it MyProxy that is responsible of doing let's say email compression (it's...

Hi, I'm trying to render any colors within a monochrome DIB bitmap and it seems that GDI doesn't achieved this task as I would have expected. As far as I understand, GDI seem to works as follow: ...

Hi, I've searched the newsgroups, but couldn't find anything useful to this. I am running a service which tries to call SetThreadDesktop and that returns 170. Anybody knows what could be a reason...

Hi, I have a program which 'scrapes' listboxes from running processes. It works just great grabbing SysListView32 classes using FindWindow and then sending the appropriate messages to obtain the...

Hello, Okay, this is a newbie question. I get some nasty flickering in my window when I use the FillRect method to change the background color of my window. Any ideas about how I might fix this? The...

Hi, I am currently using Delphi to build application. Recently, I have been give a project to display 50 thumbnails on a single screen. The Delphi Enterprise edition does not have a VCL component to...

The CALLBACK FUNCTION of timeSetEvent() is implemented by WINMM creating a time critical priority thread on behalf of its client and executing in its client's context. Does this mean that the...

How can I find the mtu on a machine running any version of windows from 95 onwards, using win32? Thanks Allan

Hi, I have a thirdpart application running as a little icon in the tray - when i rightclick this, i get a popup menu with an "Enable" / "Disable" checkbox. I would like to do this programatically -...

On 4/17/2004 1:00 PM, XBUNNY@EIDOSNET.CO.UK wrote to ALL: -> One library I find very useful is FFCALL -> -> http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html -> -> This saves you having to writing the...

Is there a way I can write data to the serial port receive buffer? This would be to simulate a serial device. Mike

Can somebody please tell me what messages are sent for a window to be completely repainted? I have a window with CS_OWNDC style and a rich edit control child within its area. I have made the rich...

On 4/16/2004 11:27 PM, XBUNNY@EIDOSNET.CO.UK wrote to ALL: -> When I say interpreter I mean any program which takes code symbols in -> some form and interprets them into symbols in some other form....

Im looking for a way to get low-level input from the mouse and keyboard. I already tried it with raw input from the API and it worked out fine, but for raw input you at least need WinXP. And I would...

On 4/15/2004 1:10 PM, XBUNNY@EIDOSNET.CO.UK wrote to ALL: -> http://compilers.iecc.com/faq.txt -> The section on getting started is very long might have some useful -> references. Helpful...

I'm having trouble implementing DirectInput into a MFC project. I coded a simple app without MFC, only using the Win API and it worked fine. The app only registers a DirectInput mouse device and...

Help me , i am lost. I cannot find a function, that gets simple miliseconds. I know only GetTickCount(), but it returns 55ms steps. If you know any, please tell me what header needed to include and...

I have Windows XP. I would like to write some ASP.NET code. Do I have to install any software for ASP.NET? My primary platform is Unix, I am not very good in Windows. Please help. tks.