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Need a little career advice. <Should I take this job?>
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hey folks, I need your oppinions. I'm a programmer. I had gotten my bachelors degree in computer science, and following that worked 2 & 1/2 years as an ASP web developer using mainly VB (6.0 and...

DSSCORE.DLL
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

hi, anyone know how to use this inside VB to convert DSS to WAV? any help would be appreciated. thanks! email me at jeff@piyeza.com THanks!

Using a Dialog Box as a child window control
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Does anyone have a pointer to using a dialog box as a child window control? More detail.... Let's say I have a Win32 based app. (not using MFC).....I create a dialog resource and add some controls...

MFC CPicture, CBitmap and CDC programming question
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Hello all, I am a fairly new Windows programmer. I am writing a program to remote control some A/V equipment. The way I decided to implement my interface is to use a BMP image of a universal remote...

Help pcx display
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

How to make to DrawText function displays error or hello on dependency of bt bumber???? LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND hwnd, UINT iMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { HDC hdc ; PAINTSTRUCT...

Tutorials on dialogbox-operations and dlg-item operations
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

And if someone has got a url to a good tutorial that cover theese kind of operations on dialogboxes and dlg-items id be happy :) Thanks

Add lines to a LISTBOX?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

How do you add items to a LISTBOX on a dialogbox? And how do you test to see if a string already exists in the LISTBOX? Thanks

Where do Leading Underscores Come From?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi Experts: I'm continuing my battle to get the Firebird database engine working with my Windows project. I have a post in the Firebird support group, but this might be an issue with VC6. We've all...

How to use SetDlgItemText() with integers
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I read a data into a struct from file Then i want to set the text of a LTEXT on my form to what i have read from the file. Do i have to do a cast or something to make it work? I tried to cast it...

Which timer to use?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

How do you decide which counter to use? Why not always use "Performance counter" since it provides the lowest resolution? Performance counter (QueryPerformanceCounter functions) Multimedia timer...

change text of LTEXT on a form
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

In my form i have a LTEXT. I need to change the text on that at run-time. how? pretty new to win32 :) --------------------------------- IDD_MAIN DIALOG 0, 0, 215, 230 .... { ...

MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx does not work in thread queue
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi, I have an application which consists of main thread, which creates some dialog boxes and receives user's input, graphical thread, which creates DirectDraw window and some other threads which...

What Is The Preprocessor output?
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi Experts: On Unix systems I can tell the compiler to display the output of the preprocessor. This helps when I want to understand things like how macros have been expanded. How do I do this with...

IE icon on desktop
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Is there a way to programmatically determine whether the Internet Explorer icon is visible on the desktop? -- Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if...

Z Order behaving differently on different OS's
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I have an application that finds the window of another application and, at times, brings it to the front. Or attempts to. I've tried this in two ways, both of which work on NT and XP. On Win2K, what...

Rich Edit Scroll Notifications
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi All, I have a rich edit control that displays standard Windows scroll bars. I have connected to the Wm_Vscroll and Wm_Hscroll to respond to scrolling as it occurs, and this works fine. What I...

Ignoring the ESC-key in a Dialog
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hello everybody, In my application I have a number of dialogs and I want to ignore the ESC-key in every one of them. Now I looked for a while in the online-help and I found that I can ignore the...

Access violation
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 0 Comments

My aplication 16 bits fails all the times on W2K, but not on XP. I got this extract text with windbg. Could you help me to understand it ? Thanks a lot. Nata. Loading Loading ModLoad: 75a50000...

memory problems with dll and exe
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 14 Comments

Hi all, I have a dll and an exe. All code for both files is compiled with the /MD switch, so it is dynamically linked to the common runtime. From what I've read, I understood that now I only have 1...

HELP! Modem device driver question
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hi, I am working on a legacy NT modem device driver, which sits between the real modem DSP and NT upper level services. I am not familiar with the UART serial interface handshaking. So here I am...