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Treeview with Checkboxes.
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hello, I have used the code below (into the oncreate method) to get a treeview with checkboxes: HWND handle = TreeView1->Handle; value = GetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE); if(value) { value =...

Flicker-free animation?
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 6 Comments

What is the easiest way to do flicker-free animation? Is there some way to use DirectX for just page flipping and GDI for the drawing? I don't want to do 3D rendering, I just want to do some...

GDI
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments

How do I find out how much resources is being used by any given GDI object? How are we supposed to make decisions about GDI allocation and so forth? Is it better to cache GDI objects or continually...

HBITMAP
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Hi! I have bitmap in memory pointed by bitmap handle. I would like to modify that bitmap (need access to pixeldata and/or palette if bitmap has it). Where can I find description that says what...

Edit Box Text in Dialog Reverse Video
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I use the following code to display help information in the scrolling edit box of a Dialog. When the dialog is invoked from a main window I created using CreateWindow() everything works as I expect...

IContextMenu and MayChangeDefaultMenu
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello, I´ve created successfully a shell extension to operate with my own filetypes(for example *.m3l). I´ve used "MayChangeDefaultMenu" to execute a file (a *.m3l) file automatically with a double...

Catch Outlook Express mail
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi! Could somebody explain, how could i catch incoming mail, when Outlook Express recieves it. And if it is possible, when it delete messages from folders, moves to another forlders and sents mail.

Is timeGetTime() slow?
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 1 Comments

just curious to know about whether timeGetTime() is slow? or other faster method to get the time? thanks.

Changing the system registry
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments

XP/VC++6.0 I have a Windows app that I want to track the number of demo runs the user has left and then disable the app when the number of demos in done. I'd like to retain the number, even if the...

Configure IP Address
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 13 Comments

Hi, How to configure IP address for a particular Ethernet connection, programatically in Windows 2000 ? Normally we can configure IP address by clicking on the netwrok properties and then select...

setting size of scrollbar thumb
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 4 Comments

How to change size of thumb for scrollbars? I can do it for flat scrollbars but can't find any function that do this for "normal" scrollbars.

Newb Question: Font width and height
Posted on January 17th, 2004 | 6 Comments

I'm writing a little command-line utility but I want to incorporate an algorithm based on the width and height of individual characters from a font in a Win32 platform (mostly 2k and XP). I tried...

Handling DebugActiveProcess exceptions which generate system modal dialog ...
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 0 Comments

We're using a customized version of DrWatson where we don't want any user intervention to be required; Specifically no modal dialog boxes needing a user to click OK. We've run into a problem where...

Computers Lits
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi! I need to get a computer list in local network. How I can did it? What API to use? Samples? sorry, my english is not well

ANN: eValid FT-150 Top Page Download Time Survey
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 0 Comments

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No return from messages sent to a menu
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I have been given the task of figuring out why an old program written in C behaves the way it does on w2k. A class is registered with a menu resource. When the menu pops up Spy indicates the...

Thanks
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Just wanted to say thank you to all the people in here that have helped me out in the past. =) Kip PS Robinson, you rock.

Please help - Cracking elevation data format in data file
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I am desperate and need help. Whoever can solve this will be rewarded. I've been working on this in one way or another for about 6 months. I'm working on a program to assist me in figuring out the...

Clearing a string buffer: = '\0' ??
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 9 Comments

One quick way to clear a string buffer is to assign binary zero to the 1st byte. I have seen 2 methods as follows (assume fn is a string buffer): 1. fn = 0; 2. fn = '\0'; I use method 1 most of...

how do I determine how much memory my application used?
Posted on January 16th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi, I have very straightforward ANSI C code and want to know if there are some Windows API calls that can tell me programmatically what was the maximum amount of memory my program allocated. Also,...