I use VB to create user forms. After collecting user inputs, the data is passed onto a program written in C (invoked by the API CreateProcess). The C program displays a dialog box showing the...

I have a weird problem: I've created an MFC dialog application and want to include some files from the PSDK or source files that require the windows.h from the PSDK. It contains a bunch of...

hello, Using VC 6, I have created an application based on dialog box. On the main form there is an edit box taken form standard "control" toolbar. The dialog box's style is set to "local edit" to...

Hi, What's the best way to have a directory as hidden as possible in ntfs and FAT32? Somethingas the 'System volume information' directory.... TIA

Hi, I have a DLL containing a function and I want that function to be called "main()". This DLL's source does not have a DllMain() defined anywhere. Now, when I try to build this DLL with VC++, the...

I'm porting an application from Unix. This tool records facts about various files in a database. In some cases it's interested in whether a file used some time (a week, a month, a year) ago is the...

Hi Experts: I was really eager to start my first completely resource editor generated window class, but I had to finish up my current dialog box by adding more control, a window of a class I...

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Hello, I've got a strange problem using the message box and variable argument lists. If I print the "debugStr" inside the "Debug" function the values come wrong (and the string gets corrupted) but if...

hi Is it possible to create and show an statusbar in a dialog based application? created a SDI application with statusbar support and then transfered the code to my dialog based application. did...

Hi, after installing VC6, VC.net 7.0, VC .net 7.1 and uninstalling VC.net 7.0, my dsw files look like a text file. I tried to assiciate the dsw with devenv.exe from my vc6.0 folder, but it still...

I have a bitmap in memory and I want to blit a second bitmap over it, but only the part with the image. The background color on both bitmaps is the same. There must be a combination of BitBlt's with...

Hi ! I am wondering if is there any way to know for how long the system (Windows) is Idle. Suppose I want to do something 10 minutes after the system became Idle. Is there an API for doing this...

Visual Studio C++ .NET When creating a DLL it is 'linked' at which time external references are resolved. What I would like to do is: - Somehow tell the DLL linker to ignore all or certain...

Just wondering if anyone else has run across this bug (or perhaps I should say "disconnect between documentation and implementation") in Detours. Background: I have a program in which, for diagnostic...

Just wondering if anyone else has run across this bug (or perhaps I should say "disconnect between documentation and implementation") in Detours. Background: I have a program in which, for diagnostic...

Hi, I've got a raw image in memory, how do I copy this to the windows clipboard? I understand I need to use SetClipboardData, preceded by OpenClipboard, but I'm a little confused about what data...

Hello, I have created a COM object, let's say, Mark, and fitted it with an interface IMark. Initially, I was making use of the object in a VBasic client and everything was going smoothly. Now I have...

hi, I'm have trouble using CB_GETCURSEL to get the selected index of my combo box... I get it like this : if(wmEvent == CBN_SELCHANGE) { HWND hText = GetDlgItem(hWnd,IDC_TRIGGERDESC); WORD uIndex =...

I need to play a sound file, but stop it when a key is pressed. I thought that doing PlaySound(filename, NULL, SND_FILENAME); in a thread, and doing a WaitForMultipleObjects on the thread and stdin,...