I have developed a small game in VC7 using OpenGL and to optimise it, someone told me I should use a profiler. I dont know if this is the correct terminology, but I want something that will show me...

Do you mean the I-beam mouse cursor, or the flashing caret? To change the mouse cursor, subclass the edit control and handle the WM_SETCURSOR message. To get rid of the caret, use a static control...

Hello, I have created a COM object, Mark, which is included in mv2.dll file. I register it during installation (Inno Setup) together with a client program written in C++ (MarkCClient). But I have...

I am porting an older 16-bit DOS application into a Win32 console application. I had some difficulty with the screen stuff since the old app wrote directly to the video memory. I have ported all of...

Can anyone point me in the direction of a library that provides calls to retrieve Windows 2000 performance monitor info? Specifically, I'd like to develop a small VB or C++ app that is able to query...

Hello, I'm in the process of developing a DLL that attempts to get the titles of all application windows that are activated while the program using the DLL is up and running. Within the DLL, I am...

Just a quick question from a newbie. Is it considered poor coding using C++ classes and such with the C based Windows API. Or should C++ programmers stick to the MFC?

Hi, I need to make a window stay always on top of another window, but it shouldn't be a child window (the user should be able to position the 'child' anywhere on the screen, not just on the area of...

In HBITMAP CreateBitmap( int nWidth, // bitmap width, in pixels int nHeight, // bitmap height, in pixels UINT cPlanes, // number of color planes UINT cBitsPerPel, // number of...

I am interested in implementing something that could best be described as a .plan file that writes itself upon each access. i.e… "type ..plan" would always print, say, the current time. I can...

Hello, hopefully this posting is not OT... What I want to do is a new drive in the windows file explorer that use the FTP protocol to connect to a remote machine to exchange files. I know that this...

Hi, I am creating process by using the CreateProcess function. Within the "created process", i am doing the ExitProcess(1) but i still see all the Handles that were opened for the "created process"...

i've got a dialog based mfc app. When the dialog box is itialized, it creates an icon in the system tray. It also starts minimized. however, the problem is that it also adds an item for itself in...

I am looking for a commercial (or commercial grade) software product that I can use to document and evaluate NT file share security. I already know about the NT resource kit utility RMTShare.exe and...

Hello Group, I am new to windows programming.I am planning to do a PDF creator.It should create pdf files from .doc,.xls and .ppt files.From a layman's point of view(ie from my point of view),on a...

HI How can I find the name of the 'program files' directory? The name changes depending on the langauge of Windows. TIA

I'm working with APIs I have 2 editboxes and a pushbutton. I need to add the numeric values form the 2 editboxes and write the answer in the second editbox. these are my child controls: case...

During a life-time of a software project there is a tendency to add a number of .h/.hpp files to the source-files because come code snippets are moved between source files. Very seldom are any...

I need to place short text labels (1-3 chars) at exact spots on the screen, with the text running at a particular angle and while I can get ->close, I can't get it right. This is my first attempt at...

Hi! I've tried googling this, but I think my terminology is a bit dim; how do I create slideable frames (like in Internet Explorer, or the divider between directory tree and files in Explorer)? .......