I am trying to convert Floppy CHS <--> LBA address functions to CHS <--> LBA functions by changing the sectors/track and head/cylinder constants and I can only get from DeviceIoControl() w/...

I have some DLL's that I have made from Visual C++ 6.x and I am trying to use them in my Borland C++ Builder project. The project compiles fine with no errors, but the linker gets the...

I'm making a sound patch librarian for a synthesizer. I have a synthesizer that has 32 slots for sounds and I want to create two list boxes that show, for example, a file with 32 sounds on the left...

I need to know the exact size of the Window on the screen, including Menu, Statusbar and Borders. Is there an easy way to get these width and height values?

Hi everyone, I am pretty much a newbie in Windows programming, I'm trying to get into win32 api. Just as an exercise I would like to code a hexadecimal editor and I am wondering which way is best to...

Hi I have created a service (let's name it serviceA) which depends on 2 others (serviceB and serviceC). When checking in the service window the properties of serviceA, I can see its...

Allan Bruce wrote: Tim is 100% correct. To do what you require WILL need to make the member function static. There is a reason for this, no pung intended :) Consider the following simple class:

Hi, is it possible to access a mirrored harddrive? or mount the mirrored volume by using api or mfc commands? Thank you in advance Wimpi

Hi to All, My multithreaded PC-inventory application has huge Problems on Pentium 4 with Windows XP. If I disable in BIOS the Hyper-Threading feature, it is running without any problems :-( Also, it...

Simple example using WriteFile to write "THIS IS A TEST" 5 times in a text file... ---------CODE-------------------------- HANDLE hFile; // handle to a text file DWORD numWrite; // needed...

"Larry Lindstrom" <nobody@aracnet.com> wrote in message news:piGac.148840$_w.1660179@attbi_s53... If you have VB installed along with it then look at its Help | About screen.

I am adding features to a plain Win32 SDK application and would like to include ActiveX controls. Does anybody know of articles, examples, or tutorials on how to do this in a non-MFC windows app? ...

Thanks, this was very helpful; after exporting the printer portion of the registry in question, I was able to conclude that the "PrinterData" values were different if the convert gray text to...

On 25 Mar 2004 20:47:29 -0800, timwhunt@yahoo.com (Tim Hunt) wrote: The average billable working time for freelancers is about 160 hours per month. Good people probably won't work for 2400 USD per...

Check HKLM/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/6.0/ServicePacks -- it has a REG_DWORD value named latest which contains the last service pack #. "Larry Lindstrom" <nobody@aracnet.com> wrote in...

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:19:20 GMT, "TheEngine" <zmengine@shaw.ca> wrote: Petzold's "Programming Windows" is the standard, but bear in mind that the Windows API is so big that even a monster book...

Allan Bruce wrote: Just FYI, there's a discussion of this issue that I have found very useful here: http://www.rpi.edu/~pudeyo/articles/wndproc/index.html -- Pete

Hi all, I'm trying to use rundll32 to access the MAPI function "MapiSendDocuments" from a command line, but none of my tests worked: rundll32.exe mapi32.dll,MAPISendDocuments...

Confused I am indeed... I have an application that I'd like to use a dedicated display for some specialized data/graphics.. I've installed an extra display adapter in the machine, and I can find...

What they said. But also declare the variable as volatile, to force its reloading from memory. This guarantees the main task will see any changes to the variable. -- #include...