Hi, How can I know if a given window is on top, without being covered by any other window? TIA

I've been looking for a document (from Microsoft or somebody) that describes the Win32 application binary interface (ABI). In particular, the compiled code conventions, such as stack and frame...

Hi, How can I check if a specified window has a sizeable border or not? Thanks Chris --- Reply with no _PRIVACY_ in mail address.

Hi everyone... I am working on an application that needs to have two different display systems which display two different screens of information simultaneously. I can plug another display adapter...

I have to store a large collection of files (up to a few million)on-disk; I am wondering about an appropriate directory structure I should use to optimize access time and file manipulation...

Hello, Does anybody know, how to modify the Windows system register, so as after right mouse click on desktop, a pop-up menu appears with an specific caption, ( e.g. "Tumor Mozgowicz App") and...

Hello, I am curious to see how does the promiscuous mode works, but I am not sure if it is enabled or disabled or even supported by my Intel PRO/100 Adapter. I use Ethereal w/ Promiscuous mode...

I want to know how I can unload my DLL that I've loaded with SHLoadInProc(). / Rickard Andersson

Hi, i want to write a program that starts another after a while the problem is that if my program is sleeping, and the computer is ordered to shutdown I get a "End Task" Window. I don't want that to...

I have written an executable that opens up an Adobe Acrobat Reader using the "system" command. I need to create a DLL that does the same functionality so that it can be used within another...

Please excuse any ignorance but I'm a newbee and I've looked at several examples but I cannot get an imported bitmap to display. Below is brief pertinent code. Please any pointers on what I'm doing...

I have a tlb file that I would like to add to a dll as a resource. What does my resource file have to look like?

When I execute the code excerpted below, the call to ShowWindow( ..., SW_SHOWNORMAL ) doesn't display the control and freezes the application. What gives? TIA! WNDPROC wpOrigAddrProc; LRESULT...

I just learned how to get a dialog box working but I was using the a resource from a different project and a resource.h file that I copied from that project into my projects folder. then I decided to...

Heya, This problem's been dogging me for a couple days already, so I'm asking you guys. As you can see from the code below, I'm trying to implement a DirectDraw wrapper. One of my design goals is...

Hello, I'm a novice programmer who has gotten a console app to run and complete it's mission on extracting cabarc.exe created cabinet files using SetupIterateCabinet( ). However I try the...

I'm trying to create a simple dialog box. I created a window by registering a class, creating the window and then calling showWindow. then I created a simple dialog box and its message processor and...

I have a windows program that creates a window with which the user can interact. Naturally I rely on windows messages to handle WM_PAINT, WM_SIZE messages etc. Since a DLL won't have a main window...

Hi, I've written a simple COM server (C++ with ATL) which exports a function. It works very well with COM client written in Visual Basic. But it won't work with VBscript or Jscript. Immediately when...

I would like to know on wich newsgroup(s) I can post question about the DirectX API (Direct3dSound in particular). Thanx in advance! Lovens